Visiting birder, John Olley has sent in this report of recent sightings, showing some significant bird movements.
List of bird sightings 21st and 22nd April two hours each day 08.00 – 10.00 Laguna Salada de la Mata
3 male and a female Montagues Harriers, 2 Cream Crowned Marsh Harriers, Booted Eagle, 2 Kestrel, 3 Great Grey Shrike, 2 Woodchat Shrike, 9 Golden Oriole flying north, 8 Stone Curlew, 9 Red Legged Partridge, 1 Nightingale, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Grey Heron, 4 Little Egret, 78 Greater Flamingo, 9 Turtle Dove flying north, 36 Slender Billed Gulls, 350 + Mediterranean Gulls, 22 Black Tern, 1 Common Tern, 3 Gull Billed Tern, 38 Shelduck, 4 Mallard, 82 Curlew Sandpiper, 40 Sanderling, 56 Little Stint, 2 Turnstone, 4 Greenshank, 20 Redshank, Terek Sandpiper, 10 Kentish Plover, 6 Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Hoopoe, 1 Wryneck, 44 Avocet, 22 Black Winged Stilt, 3000 Swift flying north, 50 Chiffchaff flying north, 38 Willow Warbler flying north, 9 Whitethroat flying north, Garden Warbler, 7 Pied Flycatcher, 6 Spotted Flycatcher, 34 Whinchat, 5 Stonechat, 2 Red Throated Pipit, 6 Red Rumpled Swallow, 6 Sand Martin flying north, 10 House Martin flying north, 4 Great Tit, 2 Green Woodpecker, Cuckoo, good numbers of Greenfinch, Linnet, Serin, White Wagtail, Crested Lark, Swallow, Sardinian Warbler, House Sparrow, Woodpigeon.
Torrevieja pink lake – 2 male Montagues Harriers, Cream Crowned Marsh Harrier, Squacco Heron, 2 Little Egret, 8 Shelduck, 4 Turtle Dove flying north.