A couple of hours down on the fields picking up a couple of year tick raptors.
Ebird List for Huétor Fields.
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| Mustard with Sierra de Loja in the background. |
I headed down to the fields early on and did a walk from the Walnuts to the Old dam point in the Arroyo Vilano, on the way out to this point I found the ♂
Little Bustard (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax) which was calling and holding territory but I couldn't find any of the 6 ♀ today.
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| ♂ Little Bustard (Sisón Común / Tetrax tetrax). |
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| Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra). |
Also seen were the 2
Black-winged Kites (Elanio Común / Elanus caeruleus), Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Little Owl (Mochuelo Europeo / Athene noctua),
Eurasian Magpie (Urraca Común / Pica pica),
Eurasian Skylark (Alondra Común / Alauda arvensis) and Crested Lark (Cogujada Común / Galerida cristata),
Zitting Cisticola (Cistícola Buitrón / Cisticola juncidis), lots of Barn Swallows (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica) and a few
Red-rumped (Golondrina Dáurica / Cecropis daurica),
Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum),
Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala),
Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor),
Common Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula),
European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola),
House (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus) and
Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Gorrión Molinero / Passer montanus), Spanish (Yellow) Wagtail (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae),
Meadow Pipit (Bisbita Pratense / Anthus pratensis),
Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs),
European Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Chloris chloris),
European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis) and
Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra).
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| Red Kite (Milano Real / Milvus milvus). |
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| Red Kite (Milano Real / Milvus milvus). |
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| Red Kite (Milano Real / Milvus milvus). |
I reached the point where the Arroyo used to be dammed, illegally I suspect which stopped the flow further down the stream, I spent a while sat here and watched some raptors move along the ridge and up the Valley north or east along the ridge towards Granada, these included a distant
Red Kite (Milano Real / Milvus milvus) which is not a common species here, so I was pleased to get some rubbish record shots before it drifted off, a pair of
Bonelli's (Aguila Perdicera / Aquila faciatus) and a single Short-toed Snake Eagle (Culebrera Europeo / Circaetus gallicus) and a Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Gavilán Común / Accipiter nisus).
I also picked up Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Eurasian Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), a single Alpine Swift (Vencejo Real / Apus melba) which went east with 2 Pallid Swift (Vencejo Pálido /Apus pallidus), 2x Little Ringed Plover (Chorlitejo Chico / Thinornis dubius), 2x Green Sandpiper (Andarrios Grande / Tringa ochropus), Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki), Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major), European Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula), Grey Wagtail (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea), Common Linnet (Pardillo Común / Linaria cannabina) and European Serin (Serin Verdecillo / Serinus serinus).
As I did the walk I also saw Perez's Frog (Rana Común / Pelophylax perezi), Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus) x2, Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) x1, Carpentor Bee (Xylocopa violacea), Field Marigold (Calendula arvensis), Persian Speedwell (Veronica persica), Mallow-leaved Convolvulus (Convolvulus althaeoides), Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum), White Wallrocket (Diplotaxis erucoides), Wild Grape Hyacinth (Muscari neglectum) and Common Fumitory (Fumaria officinalis).
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| The early sun reflecting off the snow up Sierra Nevada. |
I returned to the car and went down to Sanchez Arcos cars where I had the new motor from as I was not happy that the Fuel gauge was working correctly as I had done 600km and it was still showing full, one of the low pressure warning lights on the tyres kept coming on even though they all looked fine, anyway they soon sorted the tyre problem out when they found a dirty great nail in the one which got repaired straight away, it's got to go in on Monday for the fuel gauge to be sorted.After getting this sorted I went home and did some more painting in the Bedroom which is starting to progress, hopefully got a builder coming this week to give me a price for the roof repairs, not looking forward to hearing how much that's going to cost 😬😬😬😬😬
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