Encañizadas, La
Manga
Weather: Sky 1/8 cloud, wind NE F1; temp. 17ºC.
14:45 – 15:35
In the hope
that there might be some Garganey around (this being as good a place as any to
see them, and last year a single flock of 120+ was seen), I drove the long trek
to the end of La Manga. Of Garganey
there was no sign (neither come to that, were there any Great White Egrets
which are normally to be seen – I think they must have moved off), but there
must have been an arrival of waders, as I saw around 700 Dunlin, about 50
Little Stints, around 100 Ringed Plover with a few (about 10) Kentish Plover
mixed in. Also of note were 3
Spoonbills, and a flock of 12 Meadow Pipits feeding in an overgrown building
plot.
Species seen
Cormorant
(Phalacrocorax carbo)
Slender-billed
Gull (Larus genei)
Meadow
Pipit (Anthus pratensis)
Curlew
(Numenius arquata)
Turnstone
(Arenaria interpres)
Dunlin
(Calidris alpine)
Little
Stint (Calidris minuta)
Ringed
Plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
Kentish
Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)
Sanderling (Calidris alba)
Little
Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Grey
Heron (Ardea cinerea)
Greater
Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)
Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)
Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
Sardinian
Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala)
Yellow-legged
Gull (Larus michahellis)
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