I love this day trip up to the lakes near Campillos it always provides me with a good selection of species and usually one or two goodies and today was no exception.
Our star bird of the day was DOTTEREL! We found a small 'trip' (just two juvenile birds) in the ploughed fields at the back of Laguna Dulce this morning. Several photos are shown below and a small film can found on the Wingspanner Youtube site.
These birds were so confiding that they allowed me to approah to within 5 meters - this one even went to sleep whilst I stood next to it, how chilled is that?
Acouple of stops in the mountain region around Ronda produced the usual array of mountain species: Rock Bunting Rock Sparrow, Black Wheatear, Ropck Sparrow Blue Rock Thrush, Thekla Lark and a couple of Northern Wheatears.
Other birds present in the fields behind Laguna Ducle as well as the Dotterel were: Southern Grey Shrike, Yellows Wagtail (50+), Corn Bunting, Marsh harrier, Northern Wheatear, Skylark and lots of Stonechats. On or in the water we saw many birds withhundreds of wildfowl. White-headed Duck, Mallard, Shoveler, Gadwall, Common Pochard, Red-crested Pochard, Greater Flamingo, Little Egret, Great Crested, Little and Black Necked Grebes.
We then drove round to Fuente de PiedrasLaguna where hundreds of Greater Flamingos were viewed from the visitor's centre. The pools close to the centre held lots of species: Common Shelduck, Avocet, Black-winged Stilt, Lapwing, Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, Dunlin, Sanderling, Kentish Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Common Snipe, Ruff, Yellow Wagtail, Ringed Plover and many Common Coots and Moorhens.
On the return journey we saw Hoopoe and near Teba Gorge we stopped to watch the rock faces and ridges hoping for a Bonelli's Eagle without success.
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