Barred Wobbler
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The car parking is the same as before Alf, nominally plenty of space, but with the new access it attracts more casual visitors, so it can get a bit tight.
The car parking is the same as before Alf, nominally plenty of space, but with the new access it attracts more casual visitors, so it can get a bit tight.
Don't worry, Alf, I hear Don Corleone has given up birding these days ;-)Thanks BW. I guess that I'll just have to get there before the mob.
If that's the same figures as they are posting on Facebook, John it's the combined weekly totals of Cazalla and Algarrobo added together.Fundacion Migres, never previously very good at disseminating information, has been tweeting totals (often retweeted by 'Inglorious Bustards) passing over Cazalla this autumn.
12 Ruppell's is good news.
Maybe I am wrong, but I think it is 12 sightings, not actually 12 individuals - I was there a week or two back and Griffon Vultures were not migrating, but drifting about, the Ruppell's with them some days as I understood. Don't know how many individuals.
Hmmm... It does say birds migrating through at the top of the page, but I suppose birds could circle back and end up being recounted. I've always found the Spanish (and other Nationalities) doing the counts to be pretty accurate.
Hmmm... It does say birds migrating through at the top of the page, but I suppose birds could circle back and end up being recounted. I've always found the Spanish (and other Nationalities) doing the counts to be pretty accurate.
I have just returned from Tarifa after 8 days spent mainly watching the raptor migration, but also two great days out with Javi Elloriaga of "Birding the Strait" and was lucky enough to have had two of those days with brilliant migration, with really good numbers of Short-toed and Booted Eagles and a few Bonelli's, with over 900 of the former in just an hour & a half one day. With very strong winds (25+mph) for three days there was little or no migration. We spent time at Cazalla and Migres and another watch point.
My totals for 6 days were;- White Stork exceeding 2,000, Black Stork 235, Red Rumped Swallow 450+; Alpine Swift 150+; Short-Toed Eagle 2,250+; Booted Eagle 550+, Bonelli's Eagle 23.
We also saw a Ruppel's Vulture (not migrating), A Black Vulture, Goshawk, a few Black Kite, Long Legged Buzzard, Great Spotted and Lesser Spotted Eagle, Little Swifts and Blue throat, plus a lot of other superb birds.