Loja Wildlife, Granada Province, Spain.: Trafico watch point near Tarifa, Marisma de Cetina and Playa de Montijo, Cadiz Province, Spain.

Raptors, Saltpans and Beaches.

Dave and Sue, Day Eight.

Ebird List for Trafico.

Ebird List for Cetina.

Ebird List for Montijo Beach.

Montagu's Harrier (Aguilucho Cenizo / Circus pygargus).

We started the day again down at the Trafico watch point where we again saw a good passage of raptors, today there were more birds but many were much higher than yesterday.

Montagu's Harrier (Aguilucho Cenizo / Circus pygargus).

Egyptian Vulture (Alimoche Común / Neophron percnopterus).

We again saw good numbers of Black Kites (Milano Negro / Milvus migrans), Booted (Aguila Calzada / Aquila penntuas) and Short-toed Snake Eagle (Culebrera Europeo / Circaetus gallicus), European Honey Buzzard (Aberjero Europeo / Pernis apivorus), Montagu's Harrier (Aguilucho Cenizo / Circus pygargus), Griffon (Bultre Leonado / Gyps fulvus) and Egyptian Vulture (Alimoche Común / Neophron percnopterus).

Booted Eagle (Aguila Calzada / Aquila penntuas).

Black Kites (Milano Negro / Milvus migrans).

We also added Pallid Swift (Vencejo Pálido /Apus pallidus), Yellow-legged Gull (Gaviota Patiamarilla / Larus Michahellis), Eurasian Hoopoe (Abubilla Común / Upupa epops), European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Europeo / Merops apiaster), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Northern Raven (Cuervo grande / Corvus corax), Crested Lark (Cogujada Común / Galerida cristata), Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica), Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), Common Nightingale (Ruisenor Común / Luscinia megarhynchos), European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola), Tawny Pipit (Bisbita Camprstre / Anthus campestris) and European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis).

At Cetina's chasing down Mediterranean Short-toed Lark (Terrera Marismena / Alaudala rufescens).

On our way back to the car.

We again moved on North to Marismas de Cetina, a set of Saltpans which attract good numbers of migrant Waders but they weren't there today and we only managed to find Black-winged Stilt (Ciguenuela Común / Himantopus himantopus), Pied Avocet (Avoceta Común / Recurvirostra avosetta), Common Ringed Plover (Chorlitejo Grande / Charadrius hiaticula), Black-tailed Godwit (Aguja Colinegra / Limosa limosa) and Common Sandpiper (Andarrios Chico / Actitis hypoleucos).

Other species seen included Common Shelduck (Tarro Blanco / Tadoma tadorna), Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos), Slender-billed (Gaviota Picofina / Chroicocephalus genei) and Yellow-legged Gull, Greater Flamingo (Flamenco Común / Phoenicopterus roseus),Western Marsh Harrier (Aguilucho Lagunero Occidental / Circus aeruginosus) and several Mediterranean Short-toed Lark (Terrera Marismena / Alaudala rufescens).

Ruddy Turnstone (Vuelvepiedras Común / Arenaria interpres).

Common Ringed Plover (Chorlitejo Grande / Charadrius hiaticula).

Sanderling (Correlimos Tridáctilo / Calidris alba).

Bar-tailed Godwit (Aguja Colipinta / Limosa lapponica) and Grey Plover (Chorlito Gris / Pluvialis squatarola).

Bar-tailed Godwit (Aguja Colipinta / Limosa lapponica).

We returned to the car and then headed up to the coast near to Chipiona where we popped into Playa de Montijo, we had timed the tide level just nicely, as we scanned the beach area we saw Grey Plover (Chorlito Gris / Pluvialis squatarola), Kentish (Chorlitejo Patinegro / Anarhynchus alexandrinus) and Common Ringed Plover, Whimbrel (Zarapito Trinador / Numenius phaeopus), Bar-tailed Godwit (Aguja Colipinta / Limosa lapponica), Common Greenshank (Archibebe Claro / Tringa nebularia), Ruddy Turnstone (Vuelvepiedras Común / Arenaria interpres), Sanderling (Correlimos Tridáctilo / Calidris alba), Slender-billed, Black-headed (Gaviota Reidora / Chroicocephalus ridibundus), Mediterranean (Gaviota Cabecinegra / Larus melanocephalus), Lesser Black-backed (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus) and Yellow-legged Gull, Little (Charrancito Común / Sternula albifrons), Caspian (Pagaza Piquiroja / Hydroprone caspia), Common (Charrán Común / Sterna hirundo) and Sandwich Tern (Charrán Patinegro / Thalasseus sandvicensis) and Little Egret (Garceta Común / Egretta garzetta).