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Sunday 29th April 2012, 17:10
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Monte Gordo, Algarve, Portugal. April 23 – 29, 2012
I’m just finishing a week long trip to Monte Gordo, Portugal. The primary reason for the visit was as a warm weather training camp for some athletes I coach. This meant any birding had to be done between training sessions – and that usually meant between 10 am and 4 pm, as the athletes trained early mornings and evenings. It was however very pleasant to be timing athletes training along the trials with Turtle Doves purring in the background and a male Monty’s Harrier, or Bee-eaters drifting overhead! I birded (sans scope) mainly around the wood between Monte Gordo and St Antonio, or cycled over to the Castro Marin (CM) salt pans. I dipped on Little Bustard twice – they had been seen earlier both days I tried for them!
Species list Red-legged Partridge Mallard Gadwall Marbled duck Pochard Red-crested Pochard Shelduck Little Grebe Black-necked Grebe Great crested Grebe Northern Gannet Great Cormorant Cattle Egret Little Egret Gray Heron Purple Heron Eurasian Spoonbill White Stork Greater Flamingo Glossy Ibis Common Buzzard Black kite Marsh Harrier Montague’s Harrier Lesser Kestrel Moorhen Coot Purple Swamphen Avocet Black-winged Stilt Stone Curlew Collared Pratincole Ringed Plover Kentish Plover Grey Plover Knot Sanderling Dunlin Curlew Sandpiper Little Stint Turnstone Common Sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Redshank Spotted Redshank Greenshank Ruff Black-tailed Godwit Whimbrel Black-headed Gull Slender-billed Gull Yellow-legged Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Caspian Tern Sandwich Tern Gull-billed Tern Little Tern Woodpigeon Collared Dove Turtle Dove Cuckoo Common Swift Pallid Swift Hoopoe Eurasian Bee-eater Green Woodpecker (sharpi) Crested Lark Greater Short-toed Lark Crag Martin Swallow Red-rumped Swallow House Martin White Wagtail Yellow (Iberian) Wagtail Nightingale Northern Wheatear Western Black-eared Wheatear Stonechat Mistle Thrush Blackbird Blackcap Sardinian Warbler Cetti’s Warbler Zitting Cisticola Great Tit Crested Tit Short-toed Treecreeper Southern Gray shrike Woodchat Shrike Iberian (Azure-winged) Magpie Eurasian Magpie Common Raven Spotless Starling Golden Oriole House Sparrow Chaffinch Goldfinch Greenfinch Serin Corn Bunting Common Waxbill |
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Sunday 29th April 2012, 17:41
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No Rough legged Buzzards then?
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Sunday 29th April 2012, 18:40
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Nice list though Martin and welcome back to the nice weather. |
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