Field Trips

The Costa Blanca Bird Club’s annual outing to the Mar Menor is calculated to avoid likely bad weather by heading south, but this makes life difficult for some people who have to travel from the northern reaches of our area. … Continued

The Costa Blanca Bird Club’s December field trip was scheduled, as is usual at this time, to include its AGM, and 24 members met at Gran Alacant on a beautiful morning more like spring than mid-December. We made for the Clot, … Continued

On a grey, somewhat chilly November morning, it was gratifying to see a big turnout for the Costa Blanca Bird Club’s monthly field trip, when we met on the Salinas de Santa Pola – some 27 people being present. We … Continued

The sudden downpour that greeted members when we sallied forth from the roadside stop near Almansa didn’t augur well for the day’s birding for some twenty intrepid  members of the Costa Blanca Bird Club who had made the longish journey. … Continued

  The turnout for our first autumn outing was gratifying, when some 22 people showed up at the Hondo Visitors’ Centre, San Felipe de Neri, on a hot, cloudless mid-September morning.  We took to the boardwalk, and soon found Common … Continued

Fifteen members and guests found each other at the sea end of Santa Pola´s jetty, a little after 16.00 hours. The fishermen’s boats were returning to the harbour, followed by lots of seabirds. In the wake of the ships were … Continued

Ten members and guests met at the foot of the Font Roja in Alcoy. Then we went up to the carpark at the Visitor´s Centre. The clouds were around us, but Chaffinches were singing and Robins and Blackbirds joined in. Treecreeper and Crested Tit were heard, and Great Tit was seen. At … Continued

Seventeen members met at the car park of the Centre and on entry we were shown around by our Spanish guide, Nurina. Rex was our translator for the day and he did a sterling job. First we saw a slide show … Continued

25 members and guests met at the Visitors Centre car park to a completely different landscape, all the excavation work around the Centre is now complete and the new scrapes were full of water leaving the Centre almost on an island. … Continued

In spite of the rather grim weather forecast seventeen members and guests met at the Cafestore at Almansa. After coffee, we took the A31 to Bonete, and then the birding started with Magpie, Carrion Crow, and a lonely Corn Bunting. … Continued