A good turn out at La Mata saw 28 members and guests meet for the Costa Blanca Bird Club November meeting, lead and organised by David Roe, our President. A very large flock of Spotless Starlings swooped over the Visitors Centre … Continued
Kingfisher photos captured by Mark at the ‘dry hide’ on Thursday.
On a 30 minute walk from my villa across scrub land close to La Marquesa Golf Course I saw 2 Blue Rock Thrushes, Red Breasted Flycatcher, Ring Ouzel, Blackcap, Chiffchaff and a House Martin.
To Vistabella Road this morning – both main hides particularly quiet, with very little on the water except for the odd Coot and Little Grebe. The second hide (furthest from the bridge) was good for small birds first thing, but … Continued
Better than of late after the gales. From the PFT, upwards of 10 Marsh Harriers, Buzzard, 2 Booted Eagles and a nice Short toed Eagle, circling obligingly overhead. Then on to La Raja, where there were 3 Ringed Plover, 1 … Continued
Persistence is rather an under-rated quality. After no end of fruitless Saturday morning walks around the Uni campus, I got my first (probably last) Common Redstart of the year this morning – a lovely male. The trees were awash with … Continued
Rather noisy in the dry hide today, due to it being a fiesta. After the noisy ones went the birds started arriving. The Kingfisher put in several brief appearances as did the Little Egret, scratching around in the water and … Continued
Today from my villa I had good views of a Black Stork drifting on the thermals. A good garden tick. Obviously a different bird that Stephan saw but there are birds on the move.
