Loja Wildlife, Granada Province, Spain.: Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.

Thursday, 13 March 2025

Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.

Another wet visit to the Patch.

Ebird List.

A damp looking view across the Lucerne Fields.

I started by going down to get some paint as Charlie a guy who used to live a couple of door down the hill is coming to do the one big wall of the house that I don't like doing and the ridges as I think my time for crawling around on the roof is done with 😀😀😀😀

Two distant Black-winged Kites (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus).

I then went to the supermarket before going to the spot along the Lucerne fields where I can park and scan from the car without being in anyone's way.

The Rain arrived again.

Whilst I was there I saw 2x Black-winged Kites (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), 8x Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax), a very smart looking male Montagu's Harrier (Aguilucho Cenizo / Circus pygargus) my first of the year, Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Woodchat Shrike (Alcaudón Común / Lanius senator), Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki), Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica), Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum), Cetti's Warbler (Cetia Ruiseñor / Cettia cetti), European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola), White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Meadow Pipit (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis) and Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra).

Salvia verbenaca.

I returned to the house and then later when there there was a gap in the rain I went for a walk, a short one partly as my leg was still giving me a bit of a problem and it also looked like it would be raining again before long.

Conical Orchid (Neotinea conica).

Southern Early Purple Orchid (Orchis olbienis).

As I walked I recorded Short-toed Treecreeper (Agateador Europeo / Certhia brachydactyla), Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), Rock Bunting (Escribano Montesino / Emberiza cia), Eurasian Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Curruca capirotada), European Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula), Conical (Neotinea conica), Fan-lipped (Anacamptis collina), Southern Early (Orchis olbienis), Giant (Himanthoglosum Robertiana), Somber Bee Orchid (Ophrys lupercalis), Purple Bugloss (Echium plantagineum), Broad-leaved Iris (Iris planifolia), Field Marigold (Calendula arvensis) and Salvia verbenaca.