MOROCCO - DAY 10. - MARCH 15TH 2014

TRANSFER FROM ESSAOUIRA TO MARRAKECH AIRPORT

Another early morning start saw us at the breakfast table at 6am and on the road by 6:30am it was just beginning to get light. The journey to Marrakech takes 3 hours and we had a clear sky all the way with a beautiful sunrise too. The birding highlights consisted of two stops, one was to look for Calandra Lark, which some of the group saw and another was to look at a Falcon on a pylon. My thoughts were that it was Barbary Falcon, small compact and neat with very light undersides and blue grey back, but we couldn't see the head very well and no-one got a good view of the head when it flew off, most of the group thought it was a Lanner Falcon.

We arrived at the airport at 9:15am in good time for the flight which left on time.

The tour was over, we had recorded 176 species which includes 3 species only heard and not seen, migration was a little disappointing with only short bursts of raptor migration and very few areas where lots of passerines were found.

However nearly all of the specialities of Morocco were seen well and the group went home with many nice memories of another superb trip in a fantastic country.