Huétor Fields, Granada Province, Spain.

A quick look at the Rio Genil and soggy visit to the Lucerne Fields.

Ebird List for the Fields.

 

Looking up stream.

I headed down to Huétor to get a couple of bits and then went to have a look at the Rio and took a few phone photo's before heading up to the Lucerne Fields.

and down stream.

I was going to park at the Walnut tree but after seeing a couple of guy using what looked like a thermal imaging camera for checking the fields and acting a tad strange so I followed them and made it quite obvious I was also watching the fields and once they were aware of me the did a quick U-turn and headed off giving me an unpleasant look as they passed, guessing they were hunters but not sure.

♂ Merlin (Esmerejón / Falco columbarius).

♂ Merlin (Esmerejón / Falco columbarius).

I went up to the end of the tarmac and also did a U-turn and as it had started to rain again I did the birding from the car, most of my time was spent watching the very smart ♂ Merlin (Esmerejón / Falco columbarius) but at the same spot there were the two regular Black-winged Kites (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), 10 Little Bustards (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax), Green Sandpiper (Andarrios Grande / Tringa ochropus), Eurasian Hoopoe (Abubilla Común / Upupa epops), Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki), Zitting Cisticola (Cistícola Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis), Mistle Thrush (Zorzal Charlo / Turdus viscivorus), Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Gorrión Molinero / Passer montanus), Grey Wagtail (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea) and Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra).

♂ Merlin (Esmerejón / Falco columbarius).

Other species seen included Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Eurasian Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), Great Cormorant (Cormorán Grande / Phalacrocroax carbo), Grey Heron (Garza Real / Ardea cinerea), Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Eurasian Magpie (Urraca Común / Pica pica), Eurasian Skylark (Alondra Común / Alauda arvensis) and Crested Lark (Cogujada Común / Galerida cristata), Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita), Cetti's (Cetia Ruiseñor / Cettia cetti) and Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), Common Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), European Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula), Black Redstart (Colirrojo Tizón / Phoenicurus ochruros), European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola), House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus), White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Meadow Pipit (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), European Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Chloris chloris), a surprising group of 6 Common Crossbills (Piquituerto Común / Loxia curvirostra), European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis) and European Serin (Serin Verdecillo / Serinus serinus).

The rain started to get heavier, so I headed back to the house where I finished off the clearing out of the Kitchen, starting the lounge tomorrow.