Today I collected Mathew, Liz and Hannah from Malaga airport, in the rain! I left Gaucin at 9am in thick cloud and rain and it didn't stop all the way to Malaga. However, at 1pm when we were all assembled the rain stopped so we went to some rough ground near the golf course at Guadalmar to start our birding tour.
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| nice weather as I set out from home this morning! |
Liz shouted "Stone Curlew" before we even got to our first stop! She saw one from the bus and we quickly turned around and made a search for the bird, unfortunately a jogger ran passed the site and the bird must have flown before we got back there. Never mind, we did find Eurasian Hoopoe (2), Crested Lark, Eurasian Jackdaws, Common Kestrel and lots of Monk Parakeets.
At our first scheduled stop near the beach at Guadalmar we found Woodchat Shrike (2), a flock of Serin, Spotless Starling, European Goldfinches, Black-winged Stilt, Little Egret, a single Zitting Cisticola and many more parakeets.
We then drove for an hour to the beach area near Manilva where we saw Great Cormorant, Yellow-legged Gulls and not much else. Driving inland to Casares we stopped a couple of times to look at birds of prey, several Booted Eagles were joined by a single Black Kite as they circled high above the road and later we saw Short-toed Eagle and a few Griffon Vultures.
Sierra Crestellina was shrouded in mist and cloud and it wasn't very warm, we saw more Griffon Vultures, Common Stonechats, Hannah saw Blue Rock Thrush but there was no sign of the resident pair of Bonelli's Eagles.
We arrived at our home at 5:30pm, it was 10C and misty, whilst I was showing Liz and Hannah the upper terrace we saw two Blue Rock Thrushes sitting on the church tower, the male was in full song, a nice bird to finish the first wet day, the forecast is better for tomorrow.
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