Cabo de Palos
lighthouse garden
Weather: Sky 8/8 low cloud, wind SW F0-1, temp.14ºC.
08:15 – 09:10.
A very grey
day today, almost dark! This morning things were like I expect them to be in a
couple of week’s time – almost no migrants, just the breeding birds. Seen on my walk this morning, just 6 Willow
Warblers, a single Common Whitethroat and Woodchat Shrike and a couple of male
Common Redstarts. All the rest of the
migrants (and the Great Tit that’s been around for the last 2 days) had gone.
A quiet morning this morning, jut a few Willow Warblers amongst the migrants
Little Egret seaching for breakfast on a rocky islet
In the bay between the lighthouse and La Manga, 2 Shag
Species seen/heard
Little
Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Shag
(Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
Yellow
Legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
Common
Tern (Sterna hirundo)
Collared
Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
Rock
Dove/Domestic Pigeon (Columba livia)
Crested Lark (Galerida
cristata)
White Wagtail (Motacilla
alba alba)
Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Blackbird (Turdus merula)
Common Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)
Robin (erythacus rubecula)
Common Whitethroat (Sylvia communis)
Sardinian
Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala)
Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus)
Woodchat Shrike (Lanius senator)
Spotless
Starling (Sturnus unicolor)
House
Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Greenfinch
(Carduelis chloris)
Marchamalo Salinas
(La Manga)
Weather: Sky 7/8 cloud, wind SW F0 - 1, temp. 15ºC.
09:15 – 09:50.
The waders
were much as in previous days but with lower numbers, with 21 Curlew Sandpiper
and 8 Redshank. The Mimosas area was
also relatively quiet, with just 3 Turtle Doves, 2 Willow Warblers and a
Spotted Flycatcher around.
Over the
open fields to the west of the mimosa area, a single Short-toed Lark was
singing, and from my car on the way home as I was coming into Los Belones,
something big and black. When I got my
bins on it, it was a Carrion Crow – something very rare in these parts (in fact
the first one I’ve seen this year).
The only flycatcher seen this morning, this Spotted Flycatcher
Species seen/heard
Little
Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Avocet
(Recurvirostra avosetta)
Black
Winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)
Redshank
(Tringa totanus)
Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea)
Woodpigeon
(Columba palumbus)
Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur)
Crested
Lark (Galerida cristata)
Short-toed Lark (Calandrella brachydactyla)
Fan-tailed
Warbler (Cisticola juncidis)
Sardinian
Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala)
Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus)
Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)
Corn
Bunting (Miliaria calandra)
Carrion
Crow (Corvus corone)
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