Twenty Three members and day guests meet on a lovely if slightly chilly morning. Our first stop was on the Santa Pola Salinas by the tower. There were the usual large number of Flamingos, 20 to 30 Great Crested Grebes and we … Continued
The Costa Blanca Bird Club, as has just about become traditional, held its September field meeting at the Marjal de Pego, which presented a rather sorry, churned-up aspect, as most of the rice-harvest had been completed. Distant groups of Little … Continued
The Costa Blanca Bird Club, as has become almost a tradition, held its June meeting as a sort of afternoon/evening affair, thirteen members meeting up at El Pinet Reserve, where Avocets and Black-winged Stilts vigorously defended their chicks, and good … Continued
Some 22 members of the Costa Blanca Bird Club met at Planes on a beautiful spring morning for their May excursion, into which a great deal of work had been put by Fran, even to the extent of producing maps … Continued
The Costa Blanca Bird Club’s late April visit to the island of Tabarca was attended by just twelve members, who met on the quayside of Santa Pola on a cool, breezy morning. Common and Little Terns were fishing in the … Continued
The Costa Blanca Bird Club was unwise enough to schedule its early April field meeting for the plains of Yecla, and when twenty hardy members first ventured from their vehicles on the barren wastes, it felt more akin to the … Continued
CBBC Four Day Trip – Part Three – On the third morning of our brief Andalucian excursion, we left our comfortable stopover at the Dama de Baza, and drove along a badly potholed road around the big reservoir to the … Continued
The Costa Blanca Bird Club’s March outing was a depleted one. We had arranged some time previously to visit the Marjal de Pego, and, even though we had been told by Bryan Thomas that the marsh was bone dry, it … Continued
CBBC Four Day Trip – Part Two – Still on the first afternoon of our visit to eastern Andalucía, we made for the hide beside the Salinas of Cabo de Gata. No sooner had we parked the cars, than what … 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