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Tuesday, 1 September 2026

Embalse de Cubillas, Granada Province, Spain.

Paqui and I spent a while looking for a Spoonbill for my Granada year list.
Ebird List for the Embalse.
 
Black Stork (Cigüena Negra / Ciconia nigra).
Paqui and I went up to the Embalse which is just to the North of Granada where I was hoping to see a Eurasian Spoonbill (Espátula Común / Platalea leucorodia) which had been around for a few days but as hard as we searched the bird evaded us.
Black Stork (Cigüena Negra / Ciconia nigra).
Black Stork (Cigüena Negra / Ciconia nigra).
However we had a few good species, the best we a very smart Black Stork (Cigüena Negra / Ciconia nigra) which Paqui picked up flying along the far side of the Embalse and then off to the West.
Pied Avocets (Avoceta Común / Recurvirostra avosetta).
Pied Avocets (Avoceta Común / Recurvirostra avosetta).
Other species of interest were 
Pied Avocets (Avoceta Común / Recurvirostra avosetta) which flew around in a flock of 24 birds, Little Ringed Plover (Chorlitejo Chico / Thinornis dubius), a single Little Stint (Correlimos Menudo / Calidris minuta), Great Crested Grebe (Somormujo Lavanco / Podiceps cristatus), a Western Osprey (Águila Pescardora / Pandion haliaetus), 4x Black Kites (Milano Negro / Milvus migrans), European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Europeo / Merops apiaster), Great Spotted Woodpecker (Pico Picapinos / Dendrocopos major), Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki), Sand Martin (Avión Zapador / Riparia riparia),Red-rumped Swallow (Golondrina Dáurica / Cecropis daurica), Western Bonelli's Warbler (Mosquitero Papialbo / Phylloscopus bonelli), Common Firecrest (Reyezuelo Listado / Regulus ignicapilla) and several Stripe-necked Terrapin (Mauremys leprosa).
Pied Avocets (Avoceta Común / Recurvirostra avosetta).
Pied Avocets (Avoceta Común / Recurvirostra avosetta).

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