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Wednesday, 3 December 2025

Balsa de Regidor, Moraleda, Granada Province, Spain.

A visit to check the Egret / Heron Roost.
Ebird List for the Balsa.
 
Looking to the Southern shore.
After doing nothing much all day, I decided I need to get out for an hour or so I headed over to Balsa de Regidor to see how many Egrets were coming in to roost, when I arrived there were already 67 Western Cattle (Garcilla Bueyera / Bubulcus ibis) and 2 Little Egrets (Garceta Común / Egretta garzetta) were in the trees and reeds at the Southern end of the pool.
The Roost.
As the evening went on more than half of the Western Cattle Egrets left and headed off North toward the Genil Valley, the Egrets that stayed were joined by a single Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea).
Some dark clouds over Sierra Loja.
Other species recorded whilst I was there included 
Northern Shoveler (Cuchara Común / Spatula clypeata), Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos), Common Pochard (Porrón Europeo / Aythya ferina), Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Eurasian Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus), Eurasian Coot (Focha Común / Fulica atra), Common Snipe (Agachadiza Común / Gallinago gallinago),  Little Grebe (Zampullín Común / Tachybaptus ruficollis), Eurasian Magpie (Urraca Común / Pica pica), Western Jackdaw (Grajilla occidental / Corvus monedula), Eurasian Blue Tit (Herrerillo Común / Cyanistes caeruleus), Eurasian Crag Martin (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris), Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita), Cetti's Warbler (Cetia Ruiseñor / Cettia cetti), Eurasian Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Curruca capirotada),  Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala), Common Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis), European Serin (Serin Verdecillo / Serinus serinus), Stripe-necked Terrapin (Mauremys leprosa) and Rabbit (Conejo / Oryctolagus cuniculus).

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