Huétor Fields, Balsa de Regidor, Rio Genil West and Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.

Down on the Fields, then a walk along the Genil and back to the Fields.

Ebird List for the Genil West.

Ebird List for Balsa de Regidor.

Ebird List for the Fields.

 

I started the day with a visit to the Fields but it started to rain as son as I got there again so I did a bit of a watch from the car seeing the male Little Bustard (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax) and Black-winged Kite (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus).

I saw little else as it started to rain quite heavily so I popped down to Huétor for a Coffee and then when it stopped again I went for a walk along the western side of the Genil from the Bridge, as I walked I found Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos), Great Cormorant (Cormorán Grande / Phalacrocroax carbo), Little Ringed Plover (Chorlitejo Chico / Thinornis dubius), Barn (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica) and Red-rumped Swallow (Golondrina Dáurica / Cecropis daurica), Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum), Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Eurasian Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), Eurasian (Urraca Común / Pica pica) and Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki), Great Spotted Woodpecker (Pico Picapinos / Dendrocopos major) x4, Black Redstart (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros), European Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita), Eurasian Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Curruca capirotada), Cetti's Warbler (Cetia Ruiseñor / Cettia cetti), Zitting Cisticola (Cistícola Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis), Long-tailed (Mito Común / Aegithalos caudatus), Great (Carbonera Común / Parus major) and Eurasian Blue Tit (Herrerillo Común / Cyanistes caeruleus), a pair of Eurasian Penduline Tits (Pájaro Moscón / Remiz pendulinus), Eurasian Wren (Chochin paleártico / Troglodytes troglodytes), Grey (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea) and White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Common Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), Meadow Pipit (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis), Crested Lark (Cogujada Común / Galerida cristata), Common Waxbill (Estrilda Ondulada / Estrilda astrild), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis), European Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Chloris chloris), Common Linnet (Pardillo Común / Linaria cannabina) and European Serin (Serin Verdecillo / Serinus serinus).

My next stop was along the A92 at the man made Balsa de Regidor where I picked up Common Pochard (Porrón Europeo / Aythya ferina) x44, Mallard, Little Grebe (Zampullín Común / Tachybaptus ruficollis), Eurasian Coot (Focha Común / Fulica atra),  Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus), Eurasian Crag Martin (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris) and Mistle Thrush (Zorzal Charlo / Turdus viscivorus).

4 of the 8 Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax).

I made my way back to Huétor fields along the tracks via Mesia, I parked and then walked the Lucerne fields area finding 8x Little Bustards 3 males and 5 females, Eurasian Stone Curlew (Alcaraván Común / Burhinus oedicnemus), Red-legged Partridge (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa), Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Gavilán Común / Accipiter nisus), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Eurasian Hoopoe (Abubilla Común / Upupa epops), Western Jackdaw (Grajilla occidental / Corvus monedula), European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola), Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala), Eurasian Skylark (Alondra Común / Alauda arvensis), Spanish (Yellow) Wagtail (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae), Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra) and single Small White (Pieris rapae).

Male and female Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax).

Once the rain returned I went back home and got on with a few chores.