Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.

A couple of hours sat by a weed patch on the fields.

 

Whinchat (Tarabilla Norteña / Saxicola rubetra).

I started the day by getting a few jobs done before heading up to Granada for a visit, on the way back home I returned via the fields and spent some time sat on the roadside watching what came into an area of weeds along the side of a Lucerne field.

Whinchat (Tarabilla Norteña / Saxicola rubetra).

European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola) ♂.

European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola) ♀.

Species included European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola), Whinchat (Tarabilla Norteña / Saxicola rubetra), Willow Warbler (Mosquitero Musical / Phylloscopus trochillus), Western Yellow Wagtail (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava), Zitting Cisticola (Cistícola Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis) and European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis). 

Immature Willow Warbler (Mosquitero Musical / Phylloscopus trochillus).

Immature Willow Warbler (Mosquitero Musical / Phylloscopus trochillus).

Immature Willow Warbler (Mosquitero Musical / Phylloscopus trochillus).

Other species in the area were Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Eurasian Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), Booted Eagle (Aguila Calzada / Aquila penntuas), Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Crested Lark (Cogujada Común / Galerida cristata), Grey Wagtail (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea), Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica), Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum), Eurasian Hoopoe (Abubilla Común / Upupa epops), Common Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), Northern Wheatear (Collalba Gris / Oenanthe oenanthe), Eurasian (Urraca Común / Pica pica) and Iberian  Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki), Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), Common Waxbill (Estrilda Ondulada / Estrilda astrild), House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus), European Serin (Serin Verdecillo / Serinus serinus), Common Linnet (Pardillo Común / Linaria cannabina) and Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra).

Zitting Cisticola (Cistícola Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis).

Zitting Cisticola (Cistícola Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis).

Zitting Cisticola (Cistícola Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis).

I also saw Vagrant Emperor (Anax ephippiger), Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta), Red-veined Darter (Sympetrum fonscolombii), Bath (Pontia daplidice) and Small White (Pieris rapae), Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus), Lang's Short-tailed (Leptotes pirithous) and Long-tailed Blue (Lampides boeticus) and Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina) and lots of Crimson Speckled (Utetheisa pulchella) moths.

European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis).

European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis).

Western Yellow Wagtail (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava).