Cabo de Palos
lighthouse garden
Weather: Sky 6/8 cloud, no wind,
temp. 8ºC. 07:45 – 08:45.
A bit more
hopeful today to see migrants as it was cloudy but calm, and there obviously
had been some movement with more Robins than of late (7), Chiffchaff, Hoopoe,
Black Redstarts (7) and White Wagtails (4).
Species seen
Yellow
Legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
Sardinian
Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala)
Blackbird (Turdus merula)
Robin
(Erithacus rubecula)
Chiffchaff
(Phylloscopus collybita)
Black
Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)
Hoopoe
(Upupa epops)
Kestrel
(Falco tinnunculus)
Spotless
Starling (Sturnus unicolor)
White
Wagtail (Motacilla alba alba)
Cormorant
(Phalacrocorax carbo)
Shag
(Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
House
Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Sandwich
Tern (Sterna sandvicensis)
Collared
Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
Marchamalo Salinas,
La Manga
Weather: Sky 5/8 cloud, no wind,
temp. 12ºC. 08:55 – 09:30.
On the way
back from Cabo de Palos, I called in at both sides of the Marchamalo Salinas. All the lagoons were very full after all the
rain all day yesterday. On the La Manga
side, birds of note were a group of 6 Ruff, another 6 Kentish Plover, 15 Little
Stint and a total of 50 Shelduck.
Round at
the ‘Playa Paraiso’ side, a single Spotted Redshank beginning to moult into
breeding plumage, a Greenshank, a single 1st year Greater Flamingo
and a couple of Swallows resting on a fence.
Male
Swallow resting on the fence
Species seen
Shelduck
(Tadorna tadorna)
Ruff
(Philomachus pugnax)
Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Black
Winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)
Little
Stint (Calidris minuta)
Redshank
(Tringa tetanus)
Spotted
Redshank (Tringa erythropus)
Greenshank
(Tringa nebularia)
Kentish
Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)
Grey
Heron (Ardea cinerea)
Greater
Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)
Yellow
Legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
Swallow
(Hirundo rustica)
El Algar
countryside
Weather: Sky 2/8 cloud, wind NE F2, temp. 16ºC.
16:00 – 17:50.
In the
afternoon, I took a tour round the south western end of the Mar Menor, starting
with the rambla de Albujon where I had Jack Snipe and Southern Grey Shrike; the
‘Marina de Carmoli’ where there were 3 Booted Eagles soaring on the
thermals. I then came back to Calblanque
where the only birds of note were 4 Alpine Swifts and 3 Pallid Swifts.
Species seen
Cetti’s
Warbler (Cettia cetti)
Jack
Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus)
Marsh
Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Southern
Grey Shrike (Lanius meridionalis)
Mallard
(Anas platyrhynchos)
Moorhen
(Gallinula chloropus)
Linnet
(Carduelis cannabina)
Blackbird
(Turdus merula)
Chiffchaff
(Phylloscopus collybita)
Little
Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Booted
Eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus)
Coot (Fulica
atra)
Shelduck (Tadorna
tadorna)
Common Sandpiper (Actitis
hypoleucos)
Black
Winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)
Little
Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
Swallow
(Hirundo rustica)
Cabo de Palos
(seawatch)
Weather: Sky 2/8 cloud, no wind, sea
calm, temp. 12ºC. 18:05 – 19:05.
My last
stop of the day was an hours seawatch from Cabo de Palos, but things were very
quiet, and the only birds seen were 7 distant auks flying south, 5 Sandwich
Terns north, 8 adult Mediterranean Gulls
in breeding plumage north, and a couple of Gannets, 1 adult, the other
sub-adult, both south.
Species seen
Gannet
(Morus bassanus)
Mediterranean
Gull (Larus melanocephalus)
Sandwich
Tern (Sterna sandvicensis)
Auk.
Sp.
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