Heading further West.
Ebird List for Tina Mayor.
Ebird List for Desembocadura Río PIles in Gijón.
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| Looking SW in the Pico's direction. |
I left Leonor's after a very nice stay and headed West along the coast, on my way to Tina Mayor I saw
Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus),
Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Red Kite (Milano Real / Milvus milvus),
Carrion Crow (Corneja Negra / Corvus corone) and Yellow-legged Gull (Gaviota Patiamarilla / Larus Michahellis).I pulled into a site which is just off the motorway where I have been to a few times before, it's a place where there has been a rather controversial introduction of several White-tailed Eagles (Pigargo Europeo / Haliaeetus albicilla), I don't think it was very popular with the Spanish birders / ecologists.
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| Water Pipit (Bisbita Alpino / Anthus spinoletta). |
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| Water Pipit (Bisbita Alpino / Anthus spinoletta). |
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| Water Pipit (Bisbita Alpino / Anthus spinoletta). |
In the area I recorded
Common Sandpiper (Andarrios Chico / Actitis hypoleucos),
Common Redshank (Archibebe Común / Tringa totanus),
Yellow-legged Gull,
Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Great Spotted Woodpecker (Pico Picapinos / Dendrocopos major), a couple of
Peregrine Falcons (Halcón Peregrino / Falco peregrinus) which were interacting with several Northern Ravens (Cuervo grande / Corvus corax) over the eucalyptus cover ridges off to the East,
Eurasian Jay (Arrendajo Euroasiático / Garrulus glandarius),
Eurasian Magpie (Urraca Común / Pica pica),
Carrion Crow (Corneja Negra / Corvus corone), Eurasian Blue (Herrerillo Común / Cyanistes caeruleus) and Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major), Zitting Cisticola (Cistícola Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis), Eurasian Wren (Chochin paleártico / Troglodytes troglodytes),
European Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula),
European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola),
White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba),
Meadow (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis) and
Water Pipit (Bisbita Alpino / Anthus spinoletta) and Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs). |
| White-tailed Eagle (Pigargo Europeo / Haliaeetus albicilla) Adult. |
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| White-tailed Eagle (Pigargo Europeo / Haliaeetus albicilla) Adult. |
I walked back towards the car but turned around when I heard Gulls and Crows calling loudly, straight away I picked up a huge bird coming in from the direction of the sea which was obviously one of the White-tailed Eagles and as it turned, I could see its white tail I realised it was a smart adult bird which circled a few times and then headed off east at height.
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| White-tailed Eagle (Pigargo Europeo / Haliaeetus albicilla) Adult. |
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| White-tailed Eagle (Pigargo Europeo / Haliaeetus albicilla) Adult. |
As I got back to the car, there was a bit of a kerfuffle over the flooded fields where the Pipits were when a Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Gavilán Común / Accipiter nisus)
came in low and quick to try and snatch a snack for lunch. |
| Gijón seafront. |
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| Some of the Gulls below me on the riverside. |
I continued on to the West, my next stop was at the Desembocadura Río PIles where soon after parking I was scanning through the Gull flock on the beach and in the Rio, I found Black-headed (Gaviota Reidora / Chroicocephalus ridibundus),
Mediterranean (Gaviota Cabecinegra / Larus melanocephalus), Yellow-legged Gull and
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus) of various ages (Thanks to Ed McKrill-Verstraeten for help with a lot of this info as I am not too good with Gulls 😁😁😁).
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