Mary’s Blog

Between paying some bills in Elche and getting some food from Iceland, we had a strange detour across the El Hondo fields to see if we could find any of the newly arrived birds. Amazingly, we did find one of … Continued

Last week we stayed at a farm in Wales where we saw a few birds to add to our list. Quite a lot of the the birds could be seen from the window of our loft apartment, including a Red … Continued

Another visit to Belvide today where we saw similar species to the previous visit but added Common Sandpiper to the list. At one point Steve (the resident expert) can zooming past on his bike calling “Glossy Ibis on the North … Continued

We had been back in England for over a week and not seen a single bird, except in passing, and we were getting a bit fed up. When we finally had a free day we went to visit our local … Continued

Today we had a quick walk round the Clot. The scrape held Teal, Black winged Stilts, Coots, Swallows, White Wagtails, Little Grebe, Moorhens, and a species we haven’t seen there before, 2 Little ringed Plovers. At the main hide John … Continued

We set off to pick up Bryan and Trish for our annual trip to Petrola in search of Great Bustards. Our first bird was a Black Redstart seen as we drove past Dialprix, then Bryan spotted a Red rumped Swallow … Continued

We collected Bryan and Trish from home at 10am and headed towards the Vistabella road. During a quick stop at the rocky lay by on the Salinas we saw a Spoonbill in flight, along with all the regular birds, and … Continued

  We had a quick walk around the Clot today to see what was about. A Greenfinch was our first bird, closely followed by numerous House Martins, Crag Martins and Swallows. A Marsh Harrier was hunting over the marshes, causing … Continued

Today we met with other members of the Costa Blanca Bird Club for the March field trip. Our first location was the El Hondo Visitor Centre at San Felipe. First we had a look at the pool by the picnic … Continued

Last week we had our annual ‘holiday’ in Mojacar. While we were there we took a drive into the Cabo de Gata to visit a few of the small coastal villages there and to look for one particular bird which … Continued