Field Trips

Fourteen birders met at the Riesma restaurant for the excursion of the CBBC to Yecla. On the last part of the route to Yecla a possible Booted Eagle was spotted, and also a Southern Great Grey Shrike. After our first bird … Continued

Seventeen members met with an unexpected view: a totally dry area where usually there are wide stretches of water. Many of us feared a day with few birds, but all were determined to make the best of it. The first … Continued

The Costa Blanca Bird Club held its February meeting in the El Hondo/Santa Pola area. Just 11 members congregated at the El Hondo Visitor’s Centre under threatening skies, but we were lucky enough to be spared the rain which was … Continued

The Costa Blanca Bird Club, as usual, held its January meeting in the Mar Menor region of Murcia. Despite (or perhaps because of!) various afflictions affecting several of the committee, a goodly 16 members congregated near the saltworks at San … Continued

The Costa Blanca Bird Club, or at least 18 of its members, met at Gran Alacant on a bright, still early December morning for the monthly field trip. The first venue was the reserve of the Clot de Galvany, and … Continued

The Costa Blanca Bird Club started their November meeting by congregating on a sunny morning in the car park at La Mata, but moved off straight away to the rocky coast of the Cabo Cervera. There was little to be … Continued

The Costa Blanca Bird Club squeezed their October field trip in just before the ‘World War Three’ of the hunting season was due to decimate the wildlife on Pego’s marshland. Some 19 members met on a morning more akin to … Continued

As is now more-or-less habitual, the turn-out for our first autumn field trip was rather sparse, as many members choose to extend their summer sojourn in the frozen north. So it was that only thirteen Costa Blanca Bird Club members … Continued

The Costa Blanca Bird Club were holding their May field trip in the ‘central area’ and, accordingly, met at Gran Alacant on a fine morning, a healthy 26 members present. We proceeded to the Clot de Galvany, where there wasn’t … Continued