A Morning on the wetlands and then up into the mountains.
Deb and Ian, Day Forty Eight.
Ebird List for Lagunas de Pitillas.
Ebird List for N-623 in Castilla y León.
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| Bearded Tit (Reedling) (Bigotudo / Panurus biarmicus) male. |
We left the accommodation in a Olite and we were down on the Laguna early again and soon sat in our chairs and almost the first birds we saw were a group of
Bearded Tits (Reedling) (Bigotudo / Panurus biarmicus) as they swept across the reed tops at high speed and then disappeared into their depths but Deb still managed a shot. |
| Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea). |
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| Purple Heron (Garza Imperial / Ardea purpurea). |
Other bird species included at least 3 Great Bitterns (Avetoro Común / Botaurus stellaris) one which was seen and 2 more booming,
Greylag Geese (Ansar Común / Anser anser), Mute Swan (Cisne Vulgar / Cygnus olor), Northern Shoveler (Cuchara Común / Spatula clypeata), Gadwall (Anade Friso / Mareca strepera),
Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos),
Red-crested (Pato Colorado / Netta rufina) and
Common Pochard (Porrón Europeo / Aythya ferina),
Common Quail (Codorniz Común / Coturnix coturnix),
Water Rail (Rascón Europeo / Rallus aquaticus),
Eurasian Coot (Focha Común / Fulica atra),
Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus),
Black-winged Stilt (Ciguenuela Común / Himantopus himantopus), Little Grebe (Zampullín Común /
Tachybaptus ruficollis), Great Crested Grebe (Somormujo Lavanco / Podiceps cristatus),
Grey (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea) and Purple Heron (Garza Imperial / Ardea purpurea), Common Swift (Vencejo Común / Apus apus), Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus),
Eurasian Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto),
Green Sandpiper (Andarrios Grande / Tringa ochropus),
Western Marsh (Aguilucho Lagunero Occidental / Circus aeruginosus) and
Montagu's Harriers (Aguilucho Cenizo / Circus pygargus), Black Kite (Milano Negro / Milvus migrans),
European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Europeo / Merops apiaster),
Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Carrion Crow (Corneja Negra / Corvus corone), Red-billed Chough (Chova Piquirroja / Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax),
Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra),
Crested (Cogujada Común / Galerida cristata),
Greater Short-toed (Terrera Común / Calandrella brachydactyla),
Calandra (Calandria Común / Melanocorypha calandra) and
Eurasian Skylark (Alondra Común / Alauda arvensis), Zitting Cisticola (Cistícola Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis), Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica),
Great Reed (Carricero Tordal / Acrocephalus arundinaceus) and Cetti's Warbler (Cetia Ruiseñor / Cettia cetti),
Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor),
House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus),
Spanish (Yellow) Wagtail (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae) and
European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis).
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| Red-veined Darter (Sympetrum fonscolombii). |
Other species seen were
Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cyathinerum), Iberian Bluetail (Ischnura graellsii), Blue / Common (Anax imperator) and Lesser Emperor (Anax parthenope), Red-veined (Sympetrum fonscolombii) and Scarlet Darter (Crocothemis erythraea), Bath White (Pontia daplidice),
Spotted Fritillary (Melitaea didyma),
Rabbit (Conejo / Oryctolagus cuniculus), Catalonian Wall Lizard (Podarcis liolepis) and
Perez's Frog (Rana Común / Pelophylax perezi). By 10:00ish we decided to move on as it was getting warm and we had a bit of a drive over towards the Pico's de Europa area, on our way north west towards the Pico's we made a stop on the side of the N-623 which looked good for Tree Pipit (Bisbita Arbóreo / Anthus trivialis), a species still needed for the trip and my year list.
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| Dark Spider Orchid (Ophrys incubacea). |
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| Dark Spider Orchid (Ophrys incubacea). |
We crossed the road and soon started by finding a couple of Orchids species, the first looks like
Dark Spider Orchid (Ophrys incubacea) and the second was Man Orchid (Orchis anthropophora) before we found a singing
Tree Pipit sat in a tall Pine tree.
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| Man Orchid (Orchis anthropophora). |
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| Man Orchid (Orchis anthropophora). |
In the same area we also found
Woodlark (Alondra Totovía / Lullula arborea),
Coal (Carbonero Garrapinos / Periparus ater) and
Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major), Western Bonelli's Warbler (Mosquitero Papialbo / Phylloscopus bonelli), European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola),
Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs) and a male Cirl Bunting (Escribano Soteño / Emberiza cirlus).
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| Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera). |
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| Pyramidal Orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalia). |
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| Lizard Orchid (Himanthoglosum hircinum). |
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| Lizard Orchid (Himanthoglosum hircinum). |
We also saw
Bee (Ophrys apifera), Lizard (Himanthoglosum hircinum) and
Pyramidal Orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalia), White Flax (Linum suffruticosum), Tuberous Meadow-Rue (Thalictrum tuberosum), Bath Asparagus (Ornithogalum pyrenaicum),
Small Blue (Cupido minimus),
De Prunner's Ringlet (Erebia ) and
Meadow Fritillary ( parthenoides) x3.At the accommodation we picked up Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Barn Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Swallow, Common Swift (Vencejo Común / Apus apus), Black (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros) and Common Redstart (Colirroja Real / Phoenicurus phoenicurus), European Serin (Serin Verdecillo / Serinus serinus) and European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis).
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