Mar Menor west
Weather: 5-7/8 cloud cover &
distant showers, wind NW F3-6, temp. 16ºC.
17:20 – 17:50.
After about
24 hours of high (not far off gale force) north-westerly winds, the wind
finally seemed to drop, so I decided to go out and have a look around. As it was still a bit windy, I thought I’d
look for waders rather than passerines, checking out the west side of the Mar
Menor. My first stop was the sailing
club at Los Urrutias, normally a good wader spot if there’re any around, but on
arrival there all I saw was a Great White Egret, Little Egret and a single
Greenshank. As there were no people
around, these birds were at least fairly close to the beach. Apart from these, the only other birds around
were a couple of Sandwich Terns and Yellow-legged Gulls, and a continual stream
of Swifts (I’m not sure if there were any Pallids amongst them, but all the
ones I could i.d. were Commons).
One of only 3 species of birds seen, Little Egret
And another, this Great White Egret, having trouble swallowing a fish it'd just caught
And the third, a Greenshank
I went from
there about 6 km along the road to the desembocadura of the rambla de Albujon. Here I had a group of 8 Cattle Egret fly out
north against the wind (which had by now got back up again), and a single
Little Egret. Also flying along the
beach an adult Audouin’s Gull. Looking
in the distance I could see that there were storms approaching, and the wind
had got back up again, so I decided to beat a retreat and go back home!
No birds to photograph, so I took a shot of this weather front coming over
While over La Manga, the showers had started
Species seen
Great
White Egret (casmerodius albus)
Little
Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Cattle
Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
Greenshank
(Tringa nebularia)
Yellow
Legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
Audouin’s
Gull (Larus audouinii)
Sandwich
Tern (Sterna sandvicensis)
Swift
(Apus apus)
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