Marchamalo salinas, 16:05 – 16:40
Weather: Sky 7-5/8 cloud, wind SW F2-3, 26º.
This
afternoon I decided to go to Playa Paraiso side of Marchamalo, to try to get
some photos of the waders I saw yesterday, but when I got there, there were
only 27 Avocets, 2 Kentish and a single Ringed Plover left, and these were all
to distant to photograph. However what was
new, was a Whinchat on the Salinas
fence.
Whinchat at Marchamalo salinas
Around at
the La Manga side of the Salinas,
things were even quieter – the only water birds seen were a group of 140
Yellow-legged Gulls, an Audouin’s Gull, a single Little Egret and a pair of
Shelduck.
Species seen/heard
Shelduck
(Tadorna tadorna)
Little
Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Avocet
(Recurvirostra avosetta)
Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
Kentish
Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)
Yellow-legged
Gull (Larus michahellis)
Slender-billed
Gull (Larus genei)
Audouin’s
Gull (Larus audouinii)
Little
Tern (Sternula albifrons)
Common Swift (Apus apus)
House Martin (Delichon urbicum)
Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
Spotless
Starling (Sturnus unicolor)
House
Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Cabo lighthouse garden, 16:45 –
18:20
Weather: Sky 4/8 cloud, wind NE F1, 23º.
After
seeing the Whinchat at Marchamalo, I thought it might be worthwhile to pay a
visit to the lighthouse garden. As I
arrived at the carpark, 2 Red-rumped Swallows flew over and I had a couple of
ordinary Swallows as I walked round the area.
There were also 3 well dispersed Spotted Flycatchers and a female Common
Redstart. I spent quite a while trying
to photograph a hippolais warbler which to me looked a little odd, but I later identified
it from the photos as being a Melodious Warbler.
The last of the commoner trans-saharan migrants, the Spotted Flycatchers are still coming through
Luckily I managed to get a few photos of this to confirm it was a Melodious Warbler & not Icterine
Species seen/heard
Yellow-legged
Gull (Larus michahellis)
Collared
Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
Rock
Dove/Domestic Pigeon (Columba livia)
Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Red-rumped Swallow (Hirundo daurica)
White
Wagtail (Motacilla alba alba)
Blackbird (Turdus merula)
Common Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)
Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)
Melodious Warbler (Hippolais polyglotta)
Sardinian
Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala)
Spotless
Starling (Sturnus unicolor)
House
Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Serin
(Serinus serinus)
EDAR El Algar, 19:30 – 19:50
Weather: Sky 2/8 cloud, wind NE F1-2, 23º.
I thought
I’d have a quick look at the old sewage works, where water is finally being
pumped into one of the small pools just inside the gates. There were no waders, but quite a few Turtle
Doves around (I counted 18 but there were probably more).
South-east Spain is probably the best place in Europe to see Turtle Doves - there's no shortage of them here
Desembocadura,
rambla de Albujon, Mar Menor, 20:00 – 20:20
Weather: Sky 3/8 cloud, wind NE F2, 23º.
Calling in
at the south western corner of the Mar Menor, there was little about, apart
from a Reed Warbler singing in the reedbed, and an adult Night Heron which
seemed to fly out from the trees in the old caravan site nearby, and a few
Common Swift overhead.
Species seen/heard
Little
Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
Moorhen
(Gallinula chloropus)
Mallard
(Anas platyrhynchos)
Kentish
Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)
Yellow-legged
Gull (Larus michahellis)
Collared
Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur)
Common Swift (Apus apus)
Crested
Lark (Galerida cristata)
Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Blackbird (Turdus merula)
Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)
Sardinian
Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala)
Spotless
Starling (Sturnus unicolor)
House
Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Serin
(Serinus serinus)
Greenfinch
(Carduelis chloris)
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