A morning look at the Contra-enbalse down the Cacín Valley and an evening visit to the Presa.
Ebird List for the Contra-embalse.
Ebird List for the Presa.
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| Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra). |
Paqui and I decided to pop down to the Contra-embalse and just chill in the chairs scanning the lake and surroundings, whilst there we recorded Northern Shoveler (Cuchara Común / Spatula clypeata), Mallard (Anade Azulón / Anas platyrhynchos), Eurasian Teal (Cerceta Común / Anas crecca), Common Pochard (Porrón Europeo / Aythya ferina), Red-legged Partridge (Perdiz Roja / Alectoris rufa), Common Woodpigeon (Paloma Torcaz / Columba palumbus), Eurasian Collared Dove (Tórtola Turca / Streptopelia decaocto), Water Rail (Rascón Europeo / Rallus aquaticus), Common Moorhen (Gallineta Común / Gallinulas chloropus), Eurasian Coot (Focha Común / Fulica atra), Common Snipe (Agachadiza Común / Gallinago gallinago), Green Sandpiper (Andarrios Grande / Tringa ochropus), Little Grebe (Zampullín Común /
Tachybaptus ruficollis), Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Gavilán Común / Accipiter nisus),Common Buzzard (Busardo Ratonero / Buteo buteo), Great Spotted Woodpecker (Pico Picapinos / Dendrocopos major), Iberian Green Woodpecker (Pito ibérico / Picus sharpei), Common Kestrel (Cernicalo Vulgar / Falco tinnunculus), Iberian Magpie (Rabilargo Ibérico / Cyanopica cooki) and Eurasian Magpie (Urraca Común / Pica pica), Red-billed Chough (Chova Piquirroja / Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax), Eurasian Jackdaw (Grajilla occidental / Corvus monedula), Thekla's Lark (Cogujada Montesina / Galerida theklae), Common Reed Warbler (Carricero Común / Acrocephalus scrpaceus), Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica), Common Chiffchaff (Mosquitero Común / Phylloscopus collybita), Cetti's (Cetia Ruiseñor / Cettia cetti) and Sardinian Warbler (Curruca Cabecinegra / Curruca melanocephala), Eurasian Blackcap (Curruca Capirotada / Curruca capirotada), Spotless Starling (Estornino Negro / Sturnus unicolor), Common Blackbird (Mirlo Común / Turdus merula), European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola), Common Waxbill (Estrilda Ondulada / Estrilda astrild), House Sparrow (Gorrión Común / Passer domesticus), Grey (Lavandera Cascadena / Motacilla cinerea), Spanish (Yellow) Wagtail (Lavandera Boyera / Motacilla flava iberiae) and White Wagtail (Lavandera Blanca / Montacilla alba), Common Chaffinch (Pinzón Vulgar / Fringilla coelebs), European Greenfinch (Verderón Común / Chloris chloris), Common Linnet (Pardillo Común / Linaria cannabina), European Goldfinch (Jilguero Europeo / Carduelis carduelis), European Serin (Serin Verdecillo / Serinus serinus) and Corn Bunting (Escribano Triguero / Emberiza calandra).
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| European Stonechat (Tarabilla Europea / Saxicola rubicola) ♂. |
Other species seen whilst we were there included
Lesser (Anax parthenope) and Vagrant Emperor (Anax ephippiger),
Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta),
Red-veined Darter (Sympetrum fonscolombii), Swallowtail (Papilio machaon),
Bath (Pontia daplidice) and
Small White (
Pieris rapae),
Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus),
Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous),
Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui),
Lobed Orb Weaver (Argiope lobata), Perez's Frog (Rana Común / Pelophylax perezi), Stripe-necked Terrapin (Mauremys leprosa), Rabbit (Conejo / Oryctolagus cuniculus), Squirting Cucumber (Ecballium elaterium) and
Heliotropium supinum. |
| Lobed Orb Weaver (Argiope lobata). |
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| Lobed Orb Weaver (Argiope lobata). |
We returned to Huétor after a while and then later in the evening we went out to the spot near the Presa where we heard a single Eurasian Eagle Owl (Búho Real / Bubo bubo) as well as
Eurasian Blue (Herrerillo Común / Cyanistes caeruleus) and Great Tit (Carbonera Común / Parus major), Eurasian Crag (Avión Roquero / Ptyonoprogne rupestris) and
Western House Martin (Avión Común Occidental / Delichon urbicum),
Barn Swallow (Golondrina Común / Hirundo rustica) and
European Robin (Petirrojo Europeo / Erithacus rubecula) which were new for the day.
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| Sunset. |
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| Sunset. |
