Almuñécar and Cerro Gordo in Granada Province, Malaga and Alhaurín de la Torre in Malaga Province, Spain.

Some Shopping mixed in with a tad of birding along the coast and a nice evening with Barbara and Derek Etherton.

Deb and Ian, Day Thirty Eight. 

Ebird List for Cerro Gordo.

 

We started the day with a drive down to the flea market in Almuñécar where we had a look through the stalls which took longer than I had expected and Deb bought a few bits which I definitely didn't expect.

A distant male Blue-rock Thrush (Roquero Solitario / Monticola solitarius).

Immature Long-tailed Tit (Mito Común / Aegithalos caudatus).

After a quick scan around Aldi we headed just up the road to Cerro Gordo via a quick coffee in La Herradura, once we reached the Restaurante Mirador de Cerro Gordo we parked and walked out to the Torre where we saw several Pallid (Vencejo Pálido /Apus pallidus) and a couple of the larger Alpine Swifts (Vencejo Real / Apus melba) as well as Yellow-legged Gull (Gaviota Patiamarilla / Larus Michahellis), Northern Raven (Cuervo grande / Corvus corax), Long-tailed (Mito Común / Aegithalos caudatus), European Crested (Herrerillo Capuchino / Lophophanes cristatus) and Coal Tit  (Carbonero Garrapinos / Periparus ater), Red-rumped Swallow (Golondrina Dáurica / Cecropis daurica), Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala), Common Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), Blue-rock Thrush (Roquero Solitario / Monticola solitarius), Black Wheatear (Collalba Negra / Oenanthe leucura), Common Linnet (Pardillo Común / Linaria cannabina), European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis) and European Serin (Serin Verdecillo / Serinus serinus).

Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes jasius).

Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes jasius).

Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes jasius).

Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes jasius).

In the same area we also recorded Blue Spotted Hairstreak (Satyrium spini) x2, Cleopatra (Gonepteryx cleopatra) x1, Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus) x2, Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) x1, Wall Brown (Lasiommata megera) x2 and Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes jasius) x3 at least.

Blue Spotted Hairstreak (Satyrium spini).

We returned to the car and headed on along the coast to Malaga where we visited Leroy Merlin and Bauhaus and later Guzman Garden Center in Alhaurín de la Torre before spending a very pleasant evening with friends Barbara and Derek.