Staying a bit more local today.
Karen and Rob, Day Seven.
Before breakfast I again checked the garden and River from my room window seeing or hearing Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Common Swift (Vencejo Común / Apus apus), Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica), Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum), Eurasian Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Curruca capirotada), Eurasian Wren (Chochin paleártico / Troglodytes troglodytes), Great (Carbonera Común / Parus major) and Eurasian Blue Tit (Herrerillo Común / Cyanistes caeruleus), Common Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), Song Thrush (Zorzal Común / Turdus philomelos), European Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula), Great Spotted Woodpecker (Pico Picapinos / Dendrocopos major), Grey (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea) and White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Carrion Crow (Corneja Negra / Corvus corone), Northern Raven (Cuervo grande / Corvus corax), Cirl Bunting (Escribano Soteño / Emberiza cirlus), House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), European Serin (Serin Verdecillo / Serinus serinus), European Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Chloris chloris) and European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis).
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| White-throated Dipper (Mirlo Acuático Europeo / Cinclus cinclus) juvenile. |
We checked the river where we had nice views of a juvenile White-throated Dipper (Mirlo Acuático Europeo / Cinclus cinclus) along with Eurasian Golden Oriole (Oropéndola Europea / Oriolus oriolus) ♀, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Short-toed Treecreeper (Agateador Europeo / Certhia brachydactyla) and Grey Wagtail.
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| Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus). |
We walked back towards the car and checked the woodland on the other side of the road where we saw one of the occupants of the camper vans coming back out of the woods with his toilet roll in hand where he had been to do his morning business, this is a problem all over Spain where these inconsiderate prats who are too tight to pay for a proper camping site are fowling the countryside for everyone, disgusting behaviour. |
| Spotted Flycatcher (Papamoscas Gris / Muscicapa striata). |
We found Spotted Flycatcher (Papamoscas Gris / Muscicapa striata) before moving on to a spot I really like back towards Potes near the village of Argüébanes, as it was a stiff walk up to the site I dropped Karen and Rob off as high up as I could get them and then dropped back to the parking spot below the village.
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| Looking back down the track. |
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| Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus). |
I walked back up to them and we walked the last few hundred meters out to the butterfly area, along this wooded part of the track we picked up Middle-spotted Woodpecker (Pico Mediano / Dendrocopos medius) which was calling in the trees on the far side of a small meadow and we seen in flight, Eurasian Nuthatch (Trepador Azul / Sitta europaea), Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria) x4 and
Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus) x8. |
| Comma (Polygonia c-album). |
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| Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus) ♂. |
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| Southern Heath Fritillary (Melitaea nevadensis). |
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| Silver-Washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia) ♀. |
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| Marbled White (Melanargia galathea). |
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| Pearly Heath (Coenonympha arcania). |
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| Broad-bodied Chaser (Libellula depressa) ♀. |
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| Broad-bodied Chaser (Libellula depressa) ♀. |
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| Broad-bodied Chaser (Libellula depressa) ♀. |
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| Keeled Skimmer (Orthetrum coerulescens) ♂. |
We walked up the hill a short way to where the concrete part of the track starts Large (Ochlodes sylvanus) x6 and Red-underwing Skipper (Spialia sertorius) x1,
Wood White (
Leptidea sinapis) x2,
Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus) x8,
Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) x3,
Silver-Washed (Argynnis paphia) x5 and Southern Heath Fritillary (Melitaea
nevadensis) x2,
Marbled White (Melanargia galathea) x12,
Comma (Polygonia c-album) x2,
Large Tortoiseshell (Nymphalis polychloros) x1,
Pearly Heath (Coenonympha arcania) x8, Common Golden Ringed (Cordulegaster boltonii) x3, a nice ♀
Broad-bodied Chaser (Libellula depressa) x1 and a Keeled Skimmer (Orthetrum coerulescens) x2
♂. |
| Mallow Skipper (Carcharodus alceae). |
We spent a while at this site, waiting to see what came in to take some minerals from the damp seepage, species seen included Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) x2, Mallow (Carcharodus alceae) x4, Oberthür's Grizzled (Pyrgus armoricanus) x11, Dingy (Erynnis tages) x2 and Lulworth Skipper (Thymelicus acteon) x1, Cleopatra (Gonepteryx cleopatra) x2, False Ilex Hairstreak (Satyrium esculi) x3, Turquoise (Polyommatus dorylas) x1, Adonis (Lysandra bellargus) x1 and Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) x3, Lesser Marbled Fritillary (Brenthis ino) x2, Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) x2, Large Wall Brown (Lasiommata maera) x1 and Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina) x6.
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| Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus). |
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| False Ilex Hairstreak (Satyrium esculi). |
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| Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus). |
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| Turquoise Blue (Polyommatus dorylas). |
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| Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) ♂. |
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| Adonis Blue (Lysandra bellargus) ♂. |
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| White Admiral (Limenitis camilla). |
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| White Admiral (Limenitis camilla). |
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| Large Pincertail (Onychogomphus uncatus) ♂. |
We spent a while sat in the bus shelter seeing what we could find in the grass,
Iberian Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides feisthameli),
Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous) x3 and
Southern Brown Argus (Aricia cramera) x2.
I was a hot day and we were going up the Fuente De Cable car tomorrow so we decided to call it a day a little earlier and chill for a little while longer before we went out for something to eat later in the Evening.
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