Huétor Fields and Near Huétor Tajar, Granada Province, Spain.

A couple of stops down the fields and then the rest of the birding from the terrace.

Ebird List for the Fields 1. 

Ebird List for the Fields 2.

Ebird List for the Terrace.

 

Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax).

I started the morning with breakfast in Combustibles Gómez and then checked the fields just over the road where I found 7 of the wintering Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax) along with Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola) and Whinchat (Tarabilla Norteña / Saxicola rubetra).

Tree Pipit (Bisbita Arbóreo / Anthus trivialis).

Tree Pipits (Bisbita Arbóreo / Anthus trivialis).

I then went up to the Lucerne fields where I parked at the usual spot and then walked up to the Walnut trees where the clearing of the Arroyo was being cleared out and then walked back to the car, during this time I saw Black-winged Kite (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus canariensis), Zitting Cisticola (Cistícola Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis), Common Reed (Carricero Común / Acrocephalus scrpaceus) and Cetti's Warbler (Cetia Ruiseñor / Cettia cetti), European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola), Common Waxbill (Estrilda Ondulada / Estrilda astrild), Tree Pipit (Bisbita Arbóreo / Anthus trivialis) and Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra).

Short-toed Snake Eagles (Culebrera Europeo / Circaetus gallicus).

Short-toed Snake Eagles (Culebrera Europeo / Circaetus gallicus).

Later we spent a few hours up on the terrace seeing a couple of migrating Short-toed Snake Eagles (Culebrera Europeo / Circaetus gallicus) and 3x Booted Eagles (Aguila Calzada / Aquila penntuas), Black Kite (Milano Negro / Milvus migrans), Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Gavilán Común / Accipiter nisus), Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki), Western Jackdaw (Grajilla occidental / Corvus monedula),Eurasian Blue Tit (Herrerillo Común / Cyanistes caeruleus), Crested Lark (Cogujada Común / Galerida cristata), Barn (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica) and Red-rumped Swallow (Golondrina Dáurica / Cecropis daurica), Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum), a female Eurasian Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Curruca capirotada) and Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala).

Desert Darter (Sympetrum sinaiticum) ♂.

Other species also seen included Iberian Bluetail (Ischnura graellsii) x2, Vagrant Emperor (Anax ephippiger) x1♂, Epaulet Skimmer (Orthetrum chrysostigma) x1♂ and 1♀, Orange-winged Dropwing (Trithemis kirbyi) x1♂, Desert Darter (Sympetrum sinaiticum) x1♂ and 1♀, Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus) x2, Desert Orange-tip (Colotis evagore) x3, Small White (Pieris rapae) x1, Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria) x2 and Moorish Gecko (Tarentola mauritanica).