Sierra de Loja, Granada Province, Spain.

A morning up on the hill.

Deb and Ian, Day Sixty.

Ebird list for Sierra de Loja.

A bit of weather about up on the hill.

We headed up on to the hill via the high road as we wanted to see where the local "Wildfire" had been whilst we were away in the North, as far as we could tell it had been restricted to a large agricultural fields and extinguished before it had reached the scrubby hillside thankfully.

The Sun didn't win today.

Looking out to the East towards Sierra Nevada.

We headed down through Loja and did a drive along the Caratera Principal as far as the turning up to the Sierra Gordo viewpoint and turned around.

Spanish Ibex (Cabra montés / Capra pyrenaica hispanica).

Species seen included a few Spanish Ibex (Cabra montés / Capra pyrenaica hispanica), Red-legged Partridge (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa), Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua), Eurasian Hoopoe (Abubilla Común / Upupa epops), European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Europeo / Merops apiaster), Iberian Grey (Alcaudón Real / Lanius meridionalis) and Woodchat Shrike (Alcaudón Común / Lanius senator), Red-billed Chough (Chova Piquirroja / Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major), Thekla's Lark (Cogujada Montesina / Galerida theklae), Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica), Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum), Western Bonelli's (Mosquitero Papialbo / Phylloscopus bonelli), Sardinian (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala), Western Subalpine (Curruca Carrasqueña Occidental / Curruca iberiae), Spectacled (Curruca Tomillera / Curruca conspicillata) and Dartford Warbler (Curruca Rabilarga / Curruca undata), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), Common Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), Black Redstart (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros), European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola), Western Black-eared (Collalba Rubia Occidental / Oenanthe hispanica) and Black Wheatear (Collalba Negra / Oenanthe leucura), House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus) and Rock Sparrow (Gorrión Chillón / Petronia petronia), White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), Common Linnet (Pardillo Común / Linaria cannabina), European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis), European Serin (Serin Verdecillo / Serinus serinus), Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra) and Rock Bunting (Escribano Montesino / Emberiza cia).

Eurasian Hoopoe (Abubilla Común / Upupa epops).

Red-legged Partridge (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa).

Red-legged Partridge (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa).

Western Subalpine Warbler (Curruca Carrasqueña Occidental / Curruca iberiae).

Western Black-eared Wheatear (Collalba Rubia Occidental / Oenanthe hispanica).

Western Black-eared Wheatear (Collalba Rubia Occidental / Oenanthe hispanica).

Thekla's Lark (Cogujada Montesina / Galerida theklae).

Thekla's Lark (Cogujada Montesina / Galerida theklae).

European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola).

Rock Bunting (Escribano Montesino / Emberiza cia).

We also spent some time looking for Butterflies finding Bath (Pontia daplidice) and Small White (Pieris rapae), Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus), Cleopatra (Gonepteryx cleopatra), Blue Spotted Hairstreak (Satyrium spini), Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas), Cardinal (Argynnis pandora) and Knapweed Fritillary (Melitaea phoebe), Iberian Marbled White (Melanargia lachesis), Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae), Southern (Polyommatus celina), Lang's Short-tailed (Leptotes pirithous) and Long-tailed Blue (Lampides boeticus), Southern Brown Argus (Aricia cramera), Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui), Small Heath (Coenonympha pamphilus), Southern (Pyronia cecilia) and Spanish Gatekeeper (Pyronia bathseba) and Wall Brown (Lasiommata megera).

Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas).

Southern Brown Argus (Aricia cramera).

Blue Spotted Hairstreak (Satyrium spini).

Blue Spotted Hairstreak (Satyrium spini).

We also saw Ocellated Lizard (Timon lepidus), Large Psammodromus (Psammodromus algirus), Rabbit (Conejo / Oryctolagus cuniculus), Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), Chimney Sweeper (Odezia atrata), Hummingbird Hawkmoth (Macroglossum stellatarum), Blue-winged Grasshopper (Oedipoda caerulescens), Blue / Common Emperor (Anax imperator), Common Vipers Bugloss (Echium vulgare), Great Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) and Field Eryngo (Eryngium campestris). 

 Great Mullein (Verbascum thapsus).

Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris).

Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris).

We headed back to the house where Deb and Ian finished their packing and then during the evening we went down town to 3 Calles.