Arroyo Vilano, La Fabrica, Granada Province, Spain.

An hour along the Arroyo before it gets too hot.

 

I started the day by popping down to Huétor to get a new pedestal Fan to replace the one that packed in over night and once that was sorted I decided to got for a walk along the part of the Arroyo that has some flowing water in it, unfortunately the farmers dam the Arroyo and then extract enough that there's no natural flow lower down in the area around the fields any more.

Southern Skimmer (Orthetrum brunneum).

Epaulet Skimmer (Orthetrum chrysostigma).

I parked and walked a short way down stream from the bridge seeing Eurasian Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica), Common Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), Eurasian Golden Oriole (Oropéndola Europea / Oriolus oriolus), Eurasian (Urraca Común / Pica pica) and Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki), Eurasian Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Curruca capirotada), Common Nightingale (Ruisenor Común / Luscinia megarhynchos), European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Europeo / Merops apiaster), Common Swift (Vencejo Común / Apus apus), Common Waxbill (Estrilda Ondulada / Estrilda astrild), House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus), European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis) and European Serin (Serin Verdecillo / Serinus serinus).

Orange-winged Dropwing (Trithemis kirbyi).

Insect wise I found Iberian Bluetail (Ischnura graellsii), Epaulet (Orthetrum chrysostigma) and Southern Skimmer (Orthetrum brunneum), Bath (Pontia daplidice) and Small White (Pieris rapae). 

Southern Skimmer (Orthetrum brunneum).

Southern Skimmer (Orthetrum brunneum).

I turned around and returned to the bridge, I checked the pools below there and then went on up stream, below the bridge I found Perez's Frog (Rana Común / Pelophylax perezi), Red-underwing Skipper (Spialia sertorius), more Epaulet and Southern Skimmer as well as Mediterranean Bluet's (Coenagrion caerulescens) and Orange-winged Dropwing (Trithemis kirbyi).

Southern Skimmer (Orthetrum brunneum).

As I walked up stream I added Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra), European Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Chloris chloris), Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum), Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), an immature Woodchat Shrike (Alcaudón Común / Lanius senator), Zitting Cisticola (Cistícola Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis), Stripe-necked Terrapin (Mauremys leprosa), Rabbit (Conejo / Oryctolagus cuniculus), Spanish Gatekeeper (Pyronia bathseba) and a single White Featherleg (Platycnemis latipes). 

White Featherleg (Platycnemis latipes). 

White Featherleg (Platycnemis latipes).