El Clot
A quick look at the Clot with Dave and Linda today produced all the usual suspects, such as, Teal, Shoveler, Little Grebe etc, plus a couple of highlights. While we were sheltering from a shower of rain in the scrape … Continued
On Thursday we took a long drive round various sierras, finishing up at San Pedro del Pinatar. Our first bird was a Sandwich Tern seen as we crossed the Santa Pola Salinas, but no Osprey today sadly. We stopped by … Continued
When I leapt out of bed this morning after oversleeping, I opened the curtains to see unpromising grey skies. Nevertheless we set off to pick up Bryan and headed over to the El Hondo fields. Our first location was the … Continued
Following a tip off from Barry, we spent an interesting hour at Santa Pola Harbour, with Dave and Linda, watching the fishing boats come in. We could see the approaching boats were being followed by many gulls and as … Continued
A local birding trip with friends proved a little disappointing due to the windy conditions which kept the birds down. Our top bird, however, was a male Hen Harrier we found quartering a field in the countryside near to Catral. … Continued
This week we had a few short trips out to find some birds. On Tuesday we visited El Pinet where we didn’t see any of my ‘hoped for’ species (Water Rail, Black tailed Godwit, Common Scoter) but we did see … Continued
We met our travelling companions at Bryan’s house where Trevor had already seen a Sparrowhawk fly over before we arrived! We made a short stop at Santa Pola Salinas to tick off a few species before travelling to San Pedro … Continued
After a depressing lack of much birding, apart from a short visit to El Clot last week, we met up with Trevor and Bryan for a little drive round the local area. Just before we stopped at the rocky area … Continued
There has been little time for birding over Christmas but we did manage a short visit to Belvide on Boxing Day. Before we left my Mum’s house we had seen a small flock of Redwings feeding on the berries on … Continued