Lo Monte – David Roe
I had a short visit to Lagunas de lo Monte and saw plenty of birds on the two main ponds, but nothing that you wouldn’t expect to see. Male White-headed Duck and a Grey Wagtail in front of one of … Continued
I had a short visit to Lagunas de lo Monte and saw plenty of birds on the two main ponds, but nothing that you wouldn’t expect to see. Male White-headed Duck and a Grey Wagtail in front of one of … Continued
CBBC Four Day Trip – Part One – It was, although I say it who shouldn’t, a not inconsiderable feat to assemble fourteen souls at Alhama de Murcia at precisely ten o’clock on a gorgeous February morning for the start … Continued
My last day in Spain today but I will be back in May. I went to El Hondo and had a good day with the following species seen:- Wood Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Marbled Duck, Avocet Bluethroat, female … Continued
Flamingos gave us a great show yesterday evening at Vistabella Road. Very nice!
Today I saw 52 Great Bustards! Flocks of 22 and 10 between Bonete and Corral Rubio and 8 and 12 between Corral Rubio and Petrola. Very nice! Some birds started a kind of display. One Red Kite, 28 Black-bellied Sandgrouse, … Continued
Yesterday at El Hondo. Huge amounts of waterfowl, over a thousand Shoveler, hundreds of Teal, plus Pochard and Red-Crested Pochards. Fifty White-headed Ducks. Ten Pintail and Garganey. About twenty Booted Eagles and 5-6 Marsh Harriers. There was too little time … Continued
A couple more photos from last week’s field trip, taken by Geoff Culliford.
Had a really good day seeing 62 species. My personal highlights were:- El Hondo – 2 Temminck’s Stint, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 1 female Northern Pintail and close views of 6+ Common Snipe. Palm Farm Track – … Continued
Cold up on the ZEPA at Yecla at first, but heat-haze by the time we came away! We had to work for what we saw – just one solitary Black-bellied Sandgrouse, perhaps twenty Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, a Golden Eagle being mobbed … Continued
On our route today as soon as we drove in to the pallet road a Kestrel flew over. A little further up the road I spotted a bird in a distant tree, it turned out to be a Great Spotted … Continued