El Temple and the Cacín Valley, Granada Province, Spain.

A hard days birding on the far side of the Patch.

Sue and Dave, Day thirteen.

Ebird List for Realenga de Agicampe.

Ebird List for Chimeneas.

Ebird List for  El Temple.

Ebird List for GR-3310, Ventas de Huelma.

Ebird List for Gorge of the Cacín.

Ebird List for Contraembalse de los Bermejales. 

Ebird List for Contraembalse de los Bermejales.

 

Sierra Nevada from the Terrace.

We started off by having breakfast up on the terrace and having 2 fly passes from a Red-necked Nightjar (Chotacabras Cuellirrojo / Caprimulgus ruficollis) before heading out to the Chimenears area and took to the fields again.

Out on the fields looking for Hoopoe's.

In the area to the North of the site we drove several different tracks finding Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), European Turtle (Tórtola Europea / Streptopelia turtur) and Eurasian Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), Booted Eagle (Aguila Calzada / Aquila penntuas), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Eurasian Hoopoe (Abubilla Común / Upupa epops), Woodchat Shrike (Alcaudón Común / Lanius senator), Eurasian Magpie (Urraca Común / Pica pica), Western Jackdaw (Grajilla occidental / Corvus monedula), Crested (Cogujada Común / Galerida cristata) and Greater Short-toed Lark (Terrera Común / Calandrella brachydactyla), Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica), Willow Warbler (Mosquitero Musical / Phylloscopus trochillus), European Pied Flycatcher (Papamoscas Cerrojillo / Ficedula hypoleuca), Northern Wheatear (Collalba Gris / Oenanthe oenanthe) and Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra).

The Field.

We crossed to the other side of the site and picked up a small group of 5 Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax), Booted Eagle, Black Kite (Milano Negro / Milvus migrans), European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Europeo / Merops apiaster), Iberian Grey Shrike (Alcaudón Real / Lanius meridionalis), Greater Short-toed Lark, Barn Swallow and Northern Wheatear.

In the area we also saw Bath White (Pontia daplidice), Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus), Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) and Rabbits (Conejo / Oryctolagus cuniculus).

We moved on and called in at Bernardo Restaurante for a coffee before heading across towards Cacín, we made a stop on the way and scanned the skies for raptors and were rewarded with an immature Iberian Imperial Eagle (Aguila Imperial Ibérica / Aguila adalberti) which was involved in areal combat with an immature Golden Eagle (Águila Real / Aquila chrysaetos).

We also saw European Honey Buzzard (Aberjero Europeo / Pernis apivorus), Booted Eagle, Pallid Swift (Vencejo Pálido /Apus pallidus), Barn Swallow and Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum).

We dropped down into the Cacín Valley and went down to the south towards the Embalse de Bermejalis but stopped above the gorge where we had some food and scanned the cliffs and skies finding Short-toed Snake Eagle (Culebrera Europeo / Circaetus gallicus), Griffon Vulture (Bultre Leonado / Gyps fulvus), Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Gavilán Común / Accipiter nisus), European Bee-eater, Eurasian Crag Martin (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris), lots more Western House Martin which neast naturally on the cliffs here, Sardinian Warbler and Rock Bunting (Escribano Montesino / Emberiza cia).

Sue and Dave on the Roman Bridge.

We moved up the valley again and made a stop at the Roman Bridge seeing several Desert Orange-tips (Colotis evagore) but nothing else so we moved on up to the Contraembalse de Bermejalis where we parked and found Northern Shoveler (Cuchara Común / Spatula clypeata), Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos), Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus), Eurasian Coot (Focha Común / Fulica atra), Little Grebe (Zampullín Común / Tachybaptus ruficollis), Black-winged Stilt (Ciguenuela Común / Himantopus himantopus), Green Sandpiper (Andarrios Grande / Tringa ochropus), Pallid Swift, Booted Eagle, Western Marsh Harrier (Aguilucho Lagunero Occidental / Circus aeruginosus), Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), European Bee-eater, Common Kestrel, Red-rumped Swallow (Golondrina Dáurica / Cecropis daurica) and Barn Swallow, Western House Martin, Cetti's Warbler (Cetia Ruiseñor / Cettia cetti), European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola), Stripe-necked Terrapin (Mauremys leprosa) and Red-veined Darter (Sympetrum fonscolombii).

We moved around to the track near the Dam and walked between the bridge and the fence near the Dam adding Great (Carbonera Común / Parus major) and Long-tailed Tit (Mito Común / Aegithalos caudatus), Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala), Short-toed Treecreeper (Agateador Europeo / Certhia brachydactyla), Grey (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea) and White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Common Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), Common Crossbill (Piquituerto Común / Loxia curvirostra), European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis) and European Serin (Serin Verdecillo / Serinus serinus).

We drove further up the Valley and checked the cliffs below Morelada but added nothing so we crossed the fields between El Turro and the Motorway but it was again quiet so we headed back to the house and chilled.