Baza Area, Granada Province, Spain.

Off out East looking for a Mega Butterfly.

Karen and Robert Day Four.

Ebird List for Baza Area.

 

The Habitat.

We left the house and headed out along the A92 via Guadix to a spot near to Baza where we were hoping to find the extremely rare Spanish Greenish Black-tip (Euchloe bazae), we arrived at the site and spent the next few hours walking the Barranco until we eventually found a single insect and it sat for us several times allowing us to get some nice photo's.

Spanish Greenish Black-tip (Euchloe bazae).

Spanish Greenish Black-tip (Euchloe bazae).

Spanish Greenish Black-tip (Euchloe bazae).

As we were walking around the area we also saw Bath (Pontia daplidice) x1, Western Dappled (Euchloe crameri) x3 and Portuguese Dappled White (Euchloe tagis) x4, Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus) x6, Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) x20+, Southern (Polyommatus celina) x5 and Black-eyed Blue (Glaucopsyche melanops) x1 and Southern Brown Argus (Aricia cramera) x1.

Spanish Greenish Black-tip (Euchloe bazae).

Spanish Greenish Black-tip (Euchloe bazae).

Portuguese Dappled White (Euchloe tagis).

Bird wise we had Red-legged Partridge (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa), Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Eurasian Collared (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto) and Stock Dove (Paloma Zurita / Columba oenas), Red-billed Chough (Chova Piquirroja / Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), Booted Eagle (Aguila Calzada / Aquila penntuas), Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), Great Spotted Cuckoo (Crialo Europeo / Clamator gladarius), Woodchat Shrike (Alcaudón Común / Lanius senator), European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Europeo / Merops apiaster), Eurasian Hoopoe (Abubilla Común / Upupa epops), Eurasian Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Curruca capirotada), Spectacled Warbler (Curruca Tomillera / Curruca conspicillata), Common Nightingale (Ruisenor Común / Luscinia megarhynchos), European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola), Black (Collalba Negra / Oenanthe leucura) and Western Black-eared Wheatear (Collalba Rubia Occidental / Oenanthe hispanica), Thekla's (Cogujada Montesina / Galerida theklae) and Mediterranean Short-toed Lark (Terrera Marismena / Alaudala rufescens), Common Linnet (Pardillo Común / Linaria cannabina), Rock Sparrow (Gorrión Chillón / Petronia petronia) and Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra).

Spanish Ibex (Cabra montés / Capra pyrenaica hispanica).

Searching for the Target.

The Habitat.

Other species seen during the walk included Spiny-footed Lizard (Acanthodactylus erythrurus), Rabbit (Conejo / Oryctolagus cuniculus), Spanish Ibex (Cabra montés / Capra pyrenaica hispanica), Blue-winged (Oedipoda caerulescens) and Egyptian Grasshopper (Anacridium aegyptium), Fumaria densiflora, Hypecoum imberbe, Purple Bugloss (Echium plantagineum), Scarlet Pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis), Adonis annua, Cistanche lutea, Rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus), Linaria arvensis, Nonea echioides, Eruca vesicaria, Anchusa undulata, White Rockrose (Helianthemum apenninum) and Field Marigold (Calendula arvensis).

Adonis annua.

Anchusa undulata.

Hypecoum imberbe.

Moricandia moricandioides subsp. baetica.

Fumaria densiflora.

We left the site and did a short drive back to the hotel were we settled in and then later had some food.