A few hours out and about with friend Polly.
Ebird List for the fields.
I was meeting friend Polly at Área de Servicio Cenes along the side of the Rio Genil, I was there early so I had a bit of a walk finding Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos), Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Eurasian Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), White (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba) and Grey Wagtail (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea), Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita), Eurasian Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Curruca capirotada), Cetti's Warbler (Cetia Ruiseñor / Cettia cetti), Eurasian Blue (Herrerillo Común / Cyanistes caeruleus) and Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major), Short-toed Treecreeper (Agateador Europeo / Certhia brachydactyla), Common Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), Black Redstart (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros), House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus), European Serin (Serin Verdecillo / Serinus serinus), Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus) x1, Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) x1 and Small White (Pieris rapae) x3.
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| Looking East on the way up. |
Polly arrived and she drove us up above the snow line where we spent a while looking at the views before dropping down to Hostal Restaurante El Desvio where we had a coffee and a sandwich before dropping back to my car and then on wards to Embalse de Cubillas where we parked up and searched for some orchids.
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| On the way back down. |
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| On the way back down. |
As we walked we started by finding several
Somber Bee Orchids (Ophrys
lupercalis) which were followed by a nice patch of
Giants (Himanthoglosum Robertiana) and then a good number of
Sawfly (Ophrys tenthredinifera).
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| Somber Bee Orchid (Ophrys lupercalis). |
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| Giant Orchid (Himanthoglosum Robertiana). |
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| Sawfly Orchid (Ophrys tenthredinifera). |
We continued to walk and then Polly found a nice patch of
Ophrys dyris, shortly after this a Spanish Orchid hunter turned up, I think his name was Francisco Sanchez and he kindly pointed out that two of the three stands of what I had thought were
Dyris were actually the Hybrid between
O. Dyris and
O. Lupercalis = Ophrys x
juarezi (Need to remember to take my Glasses).
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| O. Dyris and O. Lupercalis = Ophrys x juarezi. |
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| O. Dyris and O. Lupercalis = Ophrys x juarezi. |
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| O. Dyris and O. Lupercalis = Ophrys x juarezi. |
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| O. Dyris and O. Lupercalis = Ophrys x juarezi. |
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| Ophrys dyris. |
He then took us to see another Hybrid which I had seen before but could not find it today, it was between
O. Tentredinifera and
O. Lupercalis = Ophrys x
juanamarii. We also saw
Cloven Petalled Campion (Silene colorata), Palmate Anemone (Anemone palmata) and Tassel Hyacinth (Leopoldia comosa).On the way home I stopped off at the fields where I parked at the Walnut trees and walked out to my usual parking spot where I had planned to walk up the Arroyo but it as so muddy I decided to give it a miss and walk back to the car, during the walk I saw 1x male Little Bustard (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax), Black-winged Kite (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), Montagu's Harrier (Aguilucho Cenizo / Circus pygargus), Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Booted Eagle (Aguila Calzada / Aquila penntuas), Black Kite (Milano Negro / Milvus migrans), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Woodchat Shrike (Alcaudón Común / Lanius senator), Eurasian Skylark (Alondra Común / Alauda arvensis), Zitting Cisticola (Cistícola Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis), Red-rumped (Golondrina Dáurica / Cecropis daurica) and Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica), Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum), Sardinian (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala), Western Subalpine (Curruca Carrasqueña Occidental / Curruca iberiae), Cetti's (Cetia Ruiseñor / Cettia cetti) and Willow Warbler (Mosquitero Musical / Phylloscopus trochillus) year tick, Spanish (Yellow) Wagtail (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae), Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Gorrión Molinero / Passer montanus), Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra), Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus) x2M, Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) x1, Small (Pieris rapae) x13 and Western Dappled White (Euchloe crameri) x5.
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