Motmot
Tuesday 31st August 2004, 01:18
Hi folks,
I've just moved here, done a couple of bird walks and...it's great!! I have to admit it's the first time I move to a house I haven't seen before, my wife chose it, and I was quite worried. She had told me the area was great but been fairly close to Madrid I didn't know what to expect. In Mallorca we lived very close to the city and I had not many birds to write about. Before Mallorca we were living in Costarica's Monteverde, with a huge local patch list. My local patch now is right in the middle of a Regional Park, with a small lake, riverside forest, dehesa-like country and open areas with small bushes and cereal fields. There are also some urban developments not far. "Good looking!" I thought when I saw it the first time. I've done a couple of bird walks in August (hot and dusty) and managed to find a good lot of nice birds to have close by. Plus the lake in winter is said to have wintering ducks and stuff.I loooove my wife...
Here is what I've found so far:
1 Grey Heron
2 Black-crowned Night-Heron
3 Eurasian Kestrel
4 Red Kite
5 Booted Eagle
6 Common Moorhen
7 Green Sandpiper
8 Common Sandpiper
9 Rock Dove
10 Stock Dove
11 Wood Pigeon
12 Kingfisher
13 Bee-eater
14 Hoopoe
15 Great Spotted Woodpecker
16 Green Woodpecker
17 Barn Swallow
18 Sand Martin
19 House Martin
20 Common Swift
21 White Wagtail
22 Grey Wagtail
24 Wren
25 Blackbird
26 Cetti's Warbler
27 Reed Warbler
28 Melodious Warbler
29 Iberian Chiffchaff
30 Willow Warbler
31 Western Bonelli's Warbler
32 Blackcap
33 Garden Warbler
34 Sardinian Warbler
35 Dartford Warbler
36 Spotted Flycatcher
37 Pied Flycatcher
38 Robin
39 Common Nightingale
40 Common Redstart
41 Long-tailed Tit
42 Great Tit
43 Blue Tit
44 Short-toed Treecreeper
45 Southern Grey Shrike
46 Woodchat Shrike
47 Azure-winged Magpie
48 Magpie
49 Spotless Starling
50 Rock Petronia
51 Chaffinch
52 Greenfinch
53 Goldfinch
54 Serin
55 Cirl Bunting
56 Little Bittern
57 Little Grebe
58 Great Cormorant
59 Mallard
60 Golden Oriole
61 Jackdaw
62 Linnet
63 Common Buzzard
All in walking distance from home. Good!
I've just moved here, done a couple of bird walks and...it's great!! I have to admit it's the first time I move to a house I haven't seen before, my wife chose it, and I was quite worried. She had told me the area was great but been fairly close to Madrid I didn't know what to expect. In Mallorca we lived very close to the city and I had not many birds to write about. Before Mallorca we were living in Costarica's Monteverde, with a huge local patch list. My local patch now is right in the middle of a Regional Park, with a small lake, riverside forest, dehesa-like country and open areas with small bushes and cereal fields. There are also some urban developments not far. "Good looking!" I thought when I saw it the first time. I've done a couple of bird walks in August (hot and dusty) and managed to find a good lot of nice birds to have close by. Plus the lake in winter is said to have wintering ducks and stuff.I loooove my wife...
Here is what I've found so far:
1 Grey Heron
2 Black-crowned Night-Heron
3 Eurasian Kestrel
4 Red Kite
5 Booted Eagle
6 Common Moorhen
7 Green Sandpiper
8 Common Sandpiper
9 Rock Dove
10 Stock Dove
11 Wood Pigeon
12 Kingfisher
13 Bee-eater
14 Hoopoe
15 Great Spotted Woodpecker
16 Green Woodpecker
17 Barn Swallow
18 Sand Martin
19 House Martin
20 Common Swift
21 White Wagtail
22 Grey Wagtail
24 Wren
25 Blackbird
26 Cetti's Warbler
27 Reed Warbler
28 Melodious Warbler
29 Iberian Chiffchaff
30 Willow Warbler
31 Western Bonelli's Warbler
32 Blackcap
33 Garden Warbler
34 Sardinian Warbler
35 Dartford Warbler
36 Spotted Flycatcher
37 Pied Flycatcher
38 Robin
39 Common Nightingale
40 Common Redstart
41 Long-tailed Tit
42 Great Tit
43 Blue Tit
44 Short-toed Treecreeper
45 Southern Grey Shrike
46 Woodchat Shrike
47 Azure-winged Magpie
48 Magpie
49 Spotless Starling
50 Rock Petronia
51 Chaffinch
52 Greenfinch
53 Goldfinch
54 Serin
55 Cirl Bunting
56 Little Bittern
57 Little Grebe
58 Great Cormorant
59 Mallard
60 Golden Oriole
61 Jackdaw
62 Linnet
63 Common Buzzard
All in walking distance from home. Good!