On Wednesday we had a run across the Salinas and the El Hondo fields, finishing up at San Felipe Visitor Centre. The Salinas were quite quiet, perhaps due to the wind, with only Yellow legged Gull, Slender billed Gull, Little Egret … Continued
Wednesday Today we were leaving to go home but took a detour around the Lagoons of Ruidera which are very picturesque. We had a few stops, including one to look at a waterfall where a Kingfisher flew across in front … Continued
Tuesday We set off towards Tablas de Daimiel, a wetland area close to Ciudad Real. We left Ruidera in bright sunlight but as we reached the town of Damiel we drove into a bank of fog which did not look very … Continued
Monday It was touch and go whether we would manage to go on our planned three day trip as John had really bad toothache during the weekend. We set off, however, on the motorway towards Albacete, seeing Southern Grey Shrike, Buzzard and … Continued
Today we joined the November field trip where we enjoyed catching up with several members we hadn’t seen for a while, as well as meeting a few new people who had come along this month. During a short stop at the … Continued
On Sunday we had a walk to the cliffs near our house. We didn’t see too many birds, but it was good to see and hear six Ravens flying around near the cliff edge. There have been two Ravens here … Continued
We are just back from a week visiting Ronda, Seville and Cordoba. Driving around Andalucia was brilliant, and although we weren’t there to look for birds, a few birds found us. On our way down south we had a drive … Continued
Today we managed to get out for a bit of birding around the El Hondo fields. It took a while to get going but the first ‘good’ bird was a dark phase Booted Eagle over our heads on the palm … Continued
Saturday found us heading along the edge of Loch Lomond towards Oban to catch our ferry to the Isle of Mull. While we were in the queue for the ferry John spotted two birds on the sea so I grabbed … Continued
We were on our way to Scotland so we decided to make a brief stop at Leighton Moss RSPB. We were hoping to see some of the ‘special’ birds here, such as, Bearded Tit or Bittern, but sadly we saw … Continued