Twenty Nine members and guests met at the car park at San Pedro del Pinatar on a beautiful morning. Birds were scarce on the lagoon and beach with only Black winged Stilts, Shelducks, Turnstone, Greenshank and a Water Pipit seen. … Continued
The day started in brilliant sunshine, with a visit to the Clot de Galvany, where members were treated to views of Stone Curlew, and plenty of small birds, before everyone headed for the Santa Pola Salinas. There an obligingSlender billed … Continued
At El Hondo’s San Felipe Visitors Centre, 25 members and guests gathered for a fine day of birding. From the Centre and the adjacent picnic area we observed Purple Gallinule, Moorhen, and Red knobbed Coot. This last species still had … Continued
Seventeen members and guests met at the usual meeting point at Pego Marsh, and as we started out it was cloudy with light rain falling. From the car parking area a Squacco Heron was seen followed by two distant Marsh … Continued
The Costa Blanca Bird Club embarked upon an ambitious 3 night visit to the Ebro Delta, for their September field trip. We met up, as arranged, at a roadside buffet just over the Catalan border, and we were immediately alerted … Continued
The June meeting was an afternoon/evening jaunt, as it had been the previous year, and it turned out to be a thoroughly successful field trip. We started off, with understandably reduced numbers of participants due to the heat, on the … Continued
Fifteen keen birders gathered at the foot of the Font Roja, among them a surprising amount of Dutch speaking people. We drove round the bends to the parking site near the Visitor´s Centre, from where we continued our journey on … Continued
We left our Hotel in Andújar after our two pleasant nights there, and headed back eastwards. A small navigational glitch was quickly overcome, and we made our way to the Embalse de la Puente de la Cerrada, in fact a … Continued
Eleven members set off on a sunny day for a morning’s drive to Andújar, in Jaén Province, where the three carloads all met up at miraculously similar times at the comfortable Hotel Del Val. We had a bite to eat, … Continued
The April field trip was a speculative one, to the island of Tabarca. Depending upon the whims of migration, the birding can be excellent, or pretty poor. The weather was unusually fine as we left Santa Pola harbour, sunny, and … Continued