madamcoolpix
a.k.a. Madam Butterfly
Hi, Folks! :hi:
Here I am again to do once more my sort of "illustrated diary" to keep updated my year list. I have no particular aims this year, just to enjoy finding as many different birds as I can, watching and snapping them. I'll bird mainly in Spain, but I plan to pay a couple of visits to England (on bussiness and for family reasons, hope to have the chance for a bit of birdwatching then though).
In the first day of the year, I visited Gijón... many birds seen and photographed. But I'm in Madrid now and I don’t have my pics available. So here it is a first post just with the birds seen from the train to Gijón. I'll add the rest of the stuff when I'm back at home in a few days.
This gives a taste of the common birds seen in the coastal countryside of my area.
1 January 2010: from the train Avilés-Gijón, Asturias, N Spain
1. Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michaelis)
2. White Wagtail (Motacilla alba)
3. Magpie (Pica pica)
4. Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus)
5. Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
6. European Robin (Erithacus rubecula)
7. Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)
8. Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
9. Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula)
10. Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus)
11. Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
12. House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Here I am again to do once more my sort of "illustrated diary" to keep updated my year list. I have no particular aims this year, just to enjoy finding as many different birds as I can, watching and snapping them. I'll bird mainly in Spain, but I plan to pay a couple of visits to England (on bussiness and for family reasons, hope to have the chance for a bit of birdwatching then though).
In the first day of the year, I visited Gijón... many birds seen and photographed. But I'm in Madrid now and I don’t have my pics available. So here it is a first post just with the birds seen from the train to Gijón. I'll add the rest of the stuff when I'm back at home in a few days.
This gives a taste of the common birds seen in the coastal countryside of my area.
1 January 2010: from the train Avilés-Gijón, Asturias, N Spain
1. Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michaelis)
2. White Wagtail (Motacilla alba)
3. Magpie (Pica pica)
4. Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus)
5. Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
6. European Robin (Erithacus rubecula)
7. Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)
8. Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
9. Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula)
10. Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus)
11. Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
12. House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)