Marisma de Cetina, Chipiona Puerto, Playa de Montijo, Lagunas de Camino Colorado, Salinas de Bonanza and near Trebujena in Cadiz Province, Spain.

Making a loop back home.

Deb and Ian, Day Eight.

Ebird List for Marisma de Cetina.

Ebird List for Chipiona Puerto.

Ebird List for Playa de Montijo.

Ebird List for Lagunas de Camino Colorado.

Ebird List for Salinas de Bonanza.

Ebird List for near Trebujena.

Deb and Ian going into Marisma de Cetina.

We left Vejer del la Frontera early and headed to Marisma de Cetina and after being take on a slightly odd route by the gal on Google Maps we arrived and straight away we could hear a reeling Savi's Warbler (Buscarla Unicolor / Locustella luscinoides) before we had even gone through the gate.

Common Ringed Plover (Chorlitejo Grande / Charadrius hiaticula) and Curlew Sandpiper (Correlimos Zarapitin / Calidris ferruginea).

We walked up to the first of the hides and around to the dry freshwater pools seeing Greater Flamingo (Flamenco Común / Phoenicopterus roseus), Common Shelduck (Tarro Blanco / Tadoma tadorna), Pied Avocet (Avoceta Común / Recurvirostra avosetta), Kentish (Chorlitejo Patinegro / Anarhynchus alexandrinus) and Common Ringed Plover (Chorlitejo Grande / Charadrius hiaticula), Curlew Sandpiper (Correlimos Zarapitin / Calidris ferruginea), Dunlin (Correlimos Común / Calidris alpina), Little Stint (Correlimos Menudo / Calidris minuta), Yellow-legged Gull (Gaviota Patiamarilla / Larus Michahellis), Glossy Ibis (Morito Común / Plegadis falcinellus), Eurasian Spoonbill (Espátula Común / Platalea leucorodia), Black-crowned Night Heron (Marinete Común / Nycticorax nycticorax), Little Egret (Garceta Común / Egretta garzetta), Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Greater Short-toed (Terrera Común / Calandrella brachydactyla) and Mediterranean Short-toed Lark (Terrera Marismena / Alaudala rufescens), Zitting Cisticola (Cistícola Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis), Common Reed Warbler (Carricero Común / Acrocephalus scrpaceus), Common Nightingale (Ruisenor Común / Luscinia megarhynchos) and Spanish (Yellow) Wagtail (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae).

As we walked back towards the car we bumped into friend John Cantelo who was out birding with a friend, we stopped and had a chat before moving on to Chipiona Port where we had a coffee and some breakfast before spending sometime watching the Little Swifts (Vencejo Moro / Apus affinis) as well as several Pallid Swift (Vencejo Pálido /Apus pallidus) and Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum).

Little Swift (Vencejo Moro / Apus affinis).

Little Swift (Vencejo Moro / Apus affinis).

Little Swift (Vencejo Moro / Apus affinis).

Pallid Swift (Vencejo Pálido /Apus pallidus).

After a while we moved just up the road to Playa de Montijo wherewe scanned the shoreline finding Grey (Chorlito Gris / Pluvialis squatarola) and Common Ringed Plover (Chorlitejo Grande / Charadrius hiaticula), Whimbrel (Zarapito Trinador / Numenius phaeopus), Bar-tailed Godwit (Aguja Colipinta / Limosa lapponica), Ruddy Turnstone (Vuelvepiedras Común / Arenaria interpres), Sanderling (Correlimos Tridáctilo / Calidris alba), a group of Red Knot (Correlimos Gordo / Calidris canutus) which flew in, Black-headed (Gaviota Reidora / Chroicocephalus ridibundus),  Slender-billed (Gaviota Picofina / Chroicocephalus genei), Lesser Black-backed Gull (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus) and Yellow-legged Gull, Little (Charrancito Común / Sternula albifrons), Common (Charrán Común / Sterna hirundo) and Sandwich Tern (Charrán Patinegro / Thalasseus sandvicensis), Great Cormorant (Cormorán Grande / Phalacrocroax carbo) and Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica).

Little (Charrancito Común / Sternula albifrons), Common (Charrán Común / Sterna hirundo) and Sandwich Tern (Charrán Patinegro / Thalasseus sandvicensis).

Little (Charrancito Común / Sternula albifrons), Common (Charrán Común / Sterna hirundo) and Sandwich Tern (Charrán Patinegro / Thalasseus sandvicensis).

Red Knot (Correlimos Gordo / Calidris canutus).

Sanderling (Correlimos Tridáctilo / Calidris alba).

Not too far away our next stop was at the  Lagunas de Camino Colorado where we checked the three pools finding Muscovy Duck (Pato criollo / Cairina moschata), Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos), Red-crested (Pato Colorado / Netta rufina) and Common Pochard (Porrón Europeo / Aythya ferina), White-headed Duck (Malvasia Cabeciblanca / Oxyura leucocephala), Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus), Eurasian Coot (Focha Común / Fulica atra), Little Grebe (Zampullín Común / Tachybaptus ruficollis), Glossy Ibis, Western Cattle Egret (Garcilla Bueyera / Bubulcus ibis), Common Reed Warbler (Carricero Común / Acrocephalus scrpaceus), Barn Swallow, Common Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), Common Nightingale and Perez's Frog (Rana Común / Pelophylax perezi).

Our next stop was at a very quiet Salinas de Bonanza where we only managed Pied Avocet (Avoceta Común / Recurvirostra avosetta), Grey and Kentish Plover, Curlew Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull, Little Tern and several Greater Flamingo's.

Squacco Heron (Garcilla Cangrejera / Ardeola ralloides).

We headed towards our final stop of the day was amongst the vines near Trebujena adding Squacco Heron (Garcilla Cangrejera / Ardeola ralloides) on the way, once there we were hoping to find Rufous-tailed Sceub Robin (Alzacola Rojizo / Cercotrichas galactotes) but due to the strength of the wind we dipped but did find Black Kite (Milano Negro / Milvus migrans), Crested Lark (Cogujada Común / Galerida cristata), Zitting Cisticola (Cistícola Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis) and Common Linnet (Pardillo Común / Linaria cannabina) before making the long drive home in good time and finishing the day up on the terrace with a beer or two.