Wednesday 27th to Saturday 30th May. We started our trip to the Pyrenees with a couple of nights in a hotel near Madrid. Unfortunately, this coincided with extreme temperatures of around 35° which was too hot for us to venture … Continued
Even with bad weather being forecast 13 members of the CBBC and two guests gathered near Bonete for the field trip around Corral Rubio and Pétrola. As trip leader I set off with five cars following me to the Estación … Continued
Day 3 – Friday 17th AprilToday we headed South to the plains near Campo Lugar. It was another beautiful sunny day, with the temperature reaching the high 20’s. Just before we turned off the tarmac road to the East of … Continued
Day 1 – Wednesday 15th April On the afternoon of Wednesday 15th April, a second group of 6 members of the CBBC travelled to Trujillo, to spend the following 3 days birding around the area. Shortly after arriving, a few … Continued
Just ten members of the CBBC met at Caudete for the visit to the Steppes of Yecla, on a windy, chilly morning. Three carloads made their way onto the rather desolate steppes, led by David Roe. Even larks were rather few, but Thekla, Crested, Short … Continued
On a lovely sunny morning twenty four people, a mixture of members and guests, gathered at Venta Sant Jordi for the April bird trip to the Alcoy area. First port of call being Font Roja, where a good number of … Continued
After all the recent rain and thunderstorms, we couldn’t have asked for a better morning, when 17 members of the Costa Blanca Bird Club met up at Las Palmeras Restaurante, Crevillente, for our March field trip. After the usual catch-ups … Continued
Going back to Saturday, we walked all round El Clot, but only added Snipe to what we had seen previously, plus John saw a Little Bittern fly into the reeds at the old scrape. Sadly, I missed it. A pair … Continued
This was our annual day trip to the open plains around Albacete. Starting at Bonete we set off on our usual route to Corral Rubio where we passed a couple of Buzzards on a pole by the roadside. We drove … Continued
