Playa de las Amoladeras near Cabo de Gata, Almeria, Spain.

A day chilling with Paqui in Almeria.

Ebird List for Playa de las Amoladeras.

Playa de las Amoladeras.

We left Huétor and drove around the North of Granada and then down to the coast to the East of Almeria, once we were set up I started to check through a flock of Gulls on the beach; most were Yellow-legged Gulls (Gaviota Patiamarilla / Larus Michahellis), there were also singles of Lesser Black-backed (Gaviota Sombria / Larus fuscus), Audouin's (Gaviota de Audouin / Larus audouinii) and Black-headed (Gaviota Reidora / Chroicocephalus ridibundus).

Paqui's beach Food, ¡Qué rico!

Other species seen during the visit included Kentish Plover (Chorlitejo Patinegro / Anarhynchus alexandrinus) x1, Common Sandpiper (Andarrios Chico / Actitis hypoleucos) x5, Curlew Sandpiper (Correlimos Zarapitin / Calidris ferruginea) x2, Dunlin (Correlimos Común / Calidris alpina) x3, Sandwich Tern (Charrán Patinegro / Thalasseus sandvicensis), Greater Flamingo (Flamenco Común / Phoenicopterus roseus) x1 immature, Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Crested Lark (Cogujada Común / Galerida cristata), Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica), Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum) and Sea Daffodil (Pancratium maritimum).

Huétor Fields and the Cacín Valley near A92, Granada Province, Spain.

Huétor Fields, a return to the Cacín Valley to look for the Eagle Owl, then had a Barn Owl on the way home.

Ebird List for Huétor Fields.

I started the day with a bit of gardening and then went down to the fields where I met Paqui for a short walk before going to her place for a coffee.

Later we met again and repeated yesterday's walk along the Cacín valley where we again saw and heard the Eurasian Eagle Owl (Búho Real / Bubo bubo) and many of the species seen yesterday.

We returned to Huétor where I popped Paqui back to her apartment before heading home, on the way I was surprised to see a Western Barn Owl (Lechuza Común / Tyto alba) fly across the road in front of me and away across the fields back towards Huétor. 

Rio Cacín near to the A92, Granada Province, Spain.

A late walk with Paqui along the Rio Cacín.

Ebird List for the Rio Cacín.

 

Paqui and I went for a walk along the lower part of the Rio Cacín near the A92 motorway, after parking we followed the river for a while.

During the walk we saw European Turtle Dove (Tórtola Europea / Streptopelia turtur), Common Swift (Vencejo Común / Apus apus), Booted Eagle (Aguila Calzada / Aquila penntuas), Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Eurasian Eagle Owl (Búho Real / Bubo bubo), European Bee-eater (Abejaruco Europeo / Merops apiaster), Great Spotted Woodpecker (Pico Picapinos / Dendrocopos major), Eurasian Golden Oriole (Oropéndola Europea / Oriolus oriolus), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki), Woodchat Shrike (Alcaudón Común / Lanius senator), Melodious Warbler (Zarcero políglota / Hippolais polyglotta), Eurasian Crag Martin (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris), Short-toed Treecreeper (Agateador Europeo / Certhia brachydactyla), Eurasian Wren (Chochin paleártico / Troglodytes troglodytes), Spotted Flycatcher (Papamoscas Gris / Muscicapa striata), Common Nightingale (Ruisenor Común / Luscinia megarhynchos) and Hawfinch (Picogordo Común / Coccotraustes coccotrauetes).