Spanish Year List [Archive]

tchagra

Saturday 31st January 2004, 22:37

Hi Folks

Well we have rapidly reached the end of the first month down here in S.Spain and mostly the weather has been sunny and warm,much time spent bird ringing but listing has been pretty fair so far.

1.LITTLE GREBE
2.BLACK NECKED GREBE
3.NORTHERN GANNET
4.GREAT CORMORANT
5.SHAG
6.LITTLE BITTERN (very early migrant or perhaps wintered here)
7.CATTLE EGRET
8.LITTLE EGRET
9.GREY HERON
10.WHITE STORK
11.SPOONBILL
12.GADWALL
13.MALLARD
14.SHOVELER
15.POCHARD
16.TUFTED DUCK
17.WHITE HEADED DUCK
18.BLACK KITE (usual early raptors through La Janda)
19.RED KITE
20.LAMMERGEIER ( 6 in the Pyrenees )
21.GRIFFON VULTURE
22.MARSH AHRRIER
23.HEN HARRIER
24.SPARROWHAWK
25.COMMON BUZZARD
26.BOOTED EAGLE (4 wintering pale phase birds at Rio Guadalhorce,Malaga)
27.OSPREY
28.COMMON KESTREL
29.PEREGRINE
30.RED LEGGED PARTRIDGE
31.PHEASANT
32.MOORHEN
33.PURPLE SWAMPHEN
34.COOT
35.COMMON CRANE (300 + wintering in La Janda)
36.LITTLE BUSTARD ( 20 + together in La Janda)
37.OYSTERCATCHER
38.LITTLE RINGED PLOVER
39.RINGED PLOVER
40.KENTISH PLOVER
41.LAPWING
42.SANDERLING
43.LITTLE STINT
44.DUNLIN
45.COMMON SNIPE
46.COMMON REDSHANK
47.GREEN SANDPIPER
48.COMMON SANDPIPER
49.TURNSTONE
50.MEDITERRANEAN GULL
51.BLACK HEADED GULL
52.AUDOUIN'S GULL
53.LESSER BLACK BACKED GULL
54.YELLOW LEGGED GULL
55.SANDWICH TERN
56.ROCK DOVE
57.STOCK DOVE
57.WOODPIGEON
58.COLLARED DOVE
59.LITTLE OWL
60.COMMON KINGFISHER
61WRYNECK
62 HOOPOE
63.GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER
64.CALANDRA LARK
65.CRESTED LARK
66.THEKLA LARK
67.WOODLARK
68.SKYLARK
69.CRAG MARTIN
70 BARN SWALLOW
71.HOUSE MARTIN (Lots already at nest sites for last 2 weeks)
72.MEADOW PIPIT
73.WATER PIPIT
74.GEY WAGTAIL
75.WHITE WAGTAIL
76.WREN
77.DUNNOCK
78.ALPINE ACCENTOR (Same site in Pyrenees as bonecrusher)
79.ROBIN
80.BLACK REDSTART
81.STONECHAT
82.BLACK WHEATEAR
83.BLUE ROCK THRUSH
84.BLACKBIRD
85.SONG THRUSH
86.CETTIS WARBLER
87.FAN TAILED WARBLER
88.DARTFORD WARBLER
89.SARDINIAN WARBLER
90.BLACKCAP
91.CHIFFCHAFF
92.LONG TAILED TIT
93.BLUE TIT
94.GREAT TIT
95.SHORT TOED TREECREEPER
96.AZURE WINGED MAGPIE
97.MAGPIE
98.ALPINE CHOUGH (At same site in Pyrennees as bonecrusher)
99.CHOUGH
100.JACKDAW
101.CARRION CROW
102.RAVEN
103.STARLING
104.SPOTLESS STARLING
105.HOUSE SPARROW
106.SPANISH SPARROW
107.TREE SPARROW
108.CHAFFINCH
109.SERIN
110.GREENFINCH
111.GOLDFINCH
112.LINNET
113.CIRL BUNTING
114.ROCK BUNTING
115.REED BUNTING
116.CORN BUNTING
117.MONK PARAKEET

Apart from the Pyrenees birds all were seen without an hours drive away.

Your Spanish Correspondent ( Tcahgra)

Tom Moodie

Saturday 31st January 2004, 22:56

Way better than I have managed in Fife, a few lifers in there for me. Time to consider moving home ?, don't think the wife would agree.
Tom

Steve

Saturday 31st January 2004, 23:08

Charles Harper

Sunday 1st February 2004, 06:38

With your permission, I'll add you to the 2004 list thread (q.v.), Tchagra.

tchagra

Sunday 1st February 2004, 07:35

Nice One Richard, Got any pics for the Data base? still looking for plenty! do a quick search in Data base If its not there add it to gallery and someone will then add it to DB This ones definately not in there

AZURE WINGED MAGPIE

The old spanish correspondent's got a ring to it!

Hi Steve

Unfortunately dont have any ringing sites where these colourful characters hang out,plus digi.camera is out of action,got to find somewhere down here to get it repaired,Epson make.

Also have not got into digiscoping,not got the time to dabble in everything!!!!

Cheers for now

Ricardo

tchagra

Sunday 1st February 2004, 07:38

With your permission, I'll add you to the 2004 list thread (q.v.), Tchagra.

Hi Charles

Yes please do.,will keep postings coming in.After 18th.you will not hear from me for a while as off to Goa,India for a couple of weeks birding.

Cheers for now

Ricardo

tchagra

Sunday 1st February 2004, 07:42

Way better than I have managed in Fife, a few lifers in there for me. Time to consider moving home ?, don't think the wife would agree.
Tom

Hi Tom

It seems the whole of N and C.Europe is moving down here,a huge building programme going on and lots of coastal habitat being destroyed in the name of progress!!!! It is very depressing at times so just have to close your eyes to it.

Off to Goa in India on 18th of month for 2 weeks birding ,hoping to add a few lifers to my world list!!

Cheers for now

Ricardo

Reader

Sunday 1st February 2004, 09:53

Nice One Richard, Got any pics for the Data base? still looking for plenty! do a quick search in Data base If its not there add it to gallery and someone will then add it to DB This ones definately not in there

AZURE WINGED MAGPIE

The old spanish correspondent's got a ring to it!

Steve

You do have the odd photos of A W magpie in the gallery. Here is a link to one of them.
http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showphoto.php/photo/13013/password//sort/1/cat/all/page/1

I have put a couple in myself but they are not brilliant. See if you think they are good enough. I have attached them to this post as well.

tchagra

Sunday 1st February 2004, 21:29

Steve

You do have the odd photos of A W magpie in the gallery. Here is a link to one of them.
http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showphoto.php/photo/13013/password//sort/1/cat/all/page/1

I have put a couple in myself but they are not brilliant. See if you think they are good enough. I have attached them to this post as well.

Hi Steve

You can get really close to these birds in Coto Donaña,at the El Acebuche centre as they hang around the trash left by the Spanish in the picnic area.
Could probably get a little better shots than these 2.Need to have the light behind so that the blue shows up better,and it needs to be a side on shot .

Hasta Lleugo

Ricardo

Reader

Sunday 1st February 2004, 22:36

Ricardo is absolutly right about El Acebuche. I have been there a few times but only once with a camera. Unfortunately that time a large party of schoolchildren was let loose around the picnic tables and you couldn't get near the A W Magpies. I am going back there in a few months. If there are no better pictures I will hope to improve on what is already in the gallery (as long as there are no school kids).

tchagra

Saturday 7th February 2004, 18:28

Hi All

Managed a really nice birdy trip a little further afield this last week as the weather on Costa del Sol was cloudy,cool and a bit miserable with a typical Levanter wind.

I took 2 and half hours drive to get there but left at 06.00hrs.so got birding just after first light.Unfortunately there was a heavy mist hanging over the area but this was soon burnt off by the Spanish sun and we had a glorious calm warm day out.

First port of call was the Bonanza salt Pans and then Laguna de Tarelo just N.of Sanlucar de Barrameda,a drive through Algaida pine forest and the afternoon spent out around the surrounding salinas,a magical area with the only sound were the waders,pipits,and larks of which there were countless.

Year ticks included the following which have been added to my earlier list so things are shaping up nicely so far this year.

118 GEAT CRESTED GREBE
119 GREATER FLAMINGO
120 MARBLED DUCK
121 RED CRESTED POCHARD
122 BLACK WINGED STILT
123 GREY PLOVER
124 RUFF
125 BLACK TAILED GODWIT
126 SPOTTED REDSHANK
127.LESSER SHORT TOED LARK
128 SHELDUCK

Your Spanish Correspondent

Ricardo

Larry Lade

Saturday 7th February 2004, 19:23

Ricardo, I enjoyed reading you year list. So many new and wonderful birds! I am hoping to get quite a number of life birds on an upcoming trip to Africa. It looks like I might have to consider going to Spain sometime "down the road". Good Birding in India!

tchagra

Saturday 7th February 2004, 19:41

Larry Lade

Sunday 8th February 2004, 00:38

Hi Ricardo, we will be flying into Nairobi and birding central and western Kenya as well as the Masai Mara. We will go west as far as Kakamega Forest which is not too far from Lake Victoria.