Mary’s Blog

After many weeks of hardly seeing a bird, we returned to Spain this week and decided that a visit to the Clot was well overdue. We picked up Paul and Greta and on arriving at the Clot immediately saw two Kestrels … Continued

We enjoyed a short visit to a rather chilly Belvide today and managed to catch up with a few of the ‘usual suspects’. At the woodland feeders we saw Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Nuthatch, Robin, Dunnock, Chaffinch, Wren, … Continued

This blog entry is a little late but never mind. While we were ‘up north’ in November a short walk along the riverside between Warkworth and Amble enabled me to catch up with my favourite duck, Wigeon, which, although quite … Continued

Today we had a short walk around the Clot. We found there was a quite lot of water in the marshy area to the left of the pathway, and amazingly we counted 13 Purple Swamphens in and around the pool, … Continued

This afternoon we looked out of our porch window to see two large birds flying in front of our house in Gran Alacant. We were surprised to find they were Griffon Vultures, a bird we have never seen in the … Continued

This week we travelled north, with our friends Dave and Linda, to see the famous Cranes at the Laguna de Gallocanta. We had heard that large numbers of Cranes stop off at the lagoon on migration south to their wintering grounds in … Continued

During the whole of our travels we saw lots of Red Kites and Buzzards, certainly more than we normally come across. On our way back from Merida to our overnight stay in Ruidera we stopped for a quick look at the … Continued

We spent Monday and Tuesday this week in the National Park. On Monday we started by driving up to the castle where a large raptor flew along just above us, it was a Spanish Imperial Eagle, a bird we had … Continued

Today we started with a sightseeing visit to Trujillo but were starting to get our ‘birding heads on’. It was very quiet in Trujillo (birdwise) as all the White Storks have migrated to Africa for the winter. There were no Lesser Kestrel … Continued

I’m not sure if anyone is still reading this, given that I haven’t written anything since July! We are now back in Spain and are on one of our regular trips away. This year we have been doing a tour … Continued