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Red-throated Bee-eater

Red-throated Bee-eater
join us for a fantastic tour of The Gambia this November

Sunday, June 1, 2014

MALAGA (GUADALHORCE) - JUNE 1ST 2014

DESEMBOCADURA DE GUADALHORCE NATURAL PARK

I took DAVE, MARTIN and ALAN back to MALAGA airport for their return flight to the UK. and as I have to collect my darling wife a little later I planned a full day's birding in the area. However, the weather decided otherwise. Some of the darkest clouds I have ever seen gathered over Malaga and I spent just 1 hour birding before the rain started, I am sure my dearest had something to do with it!

I only went to one small part of the reserve on the east bank of the old river, where I took as many pictures as I could in appalling light conditions.

I listed the following:

black-winged Stilt, Ringed Plover, Kentish Plover, Sanderling, Hoopoe, Whiskered Tern, Little Egret, Audouin's Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Black-headed Gull, Slender-billed Gull, Mallard, Gadwall, Redshank, Collared Dove, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Spotless Starling, Goldfinch and Linnets.

I tried to photograph most of them:

CLICK ON ANY IMAGE TO SEE AN ENLARGEMENT OF THEM ALL

AUDOUIN'S GULL - IF YOU LOOK CAREFULLY YOU CAN SEE FISHING LINE PROTRUDING FROM THE BIRD'S BEAK, HE WAS CONSTANTLY TRYING TO REMOVE IT - NOT A HAPPY FUTURE ME THINKS

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AUDOUIN'S GULL - 2cy

LITTLE EGRET


EURASIAN HOOPOE  - he was calling from the rocks on the shore, not long after a female arrived, pulling on the beach is easy in Spain I guess?

KENTISH PLOVER

 

RINGED PLOVER

SANDERLING  - you don't often get to see this species in summer plumage, very pretty too! What is a summer plumage Sanderling doing in Spain in June?? It should be much further north by now.


SLENDER -BILLED GULL, unfortunately this bird is oiled

our local Sturnus - Sturnus unicolor, SPOTLESS STARLING

very common in Spain now - BLACK-WINGED STILT - remember Sammy at Titchwell? He took up residence there from 1993 - 2005, he was very lonely I saw him trying to mount an Avocet, imagine the off-spring, AV-A-STILT!
WHISKERED TERN - a record shot taken in very bad light and at distance
 
 
rain clouds gathering over Malaga
 

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