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  1. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Great. Could you send me a pin of where you had it please? Hoping to have a go tomorrow when we run the guests back to the south airport. 45 minutes a Hidalgo from 11:40 this morning was another Cory's fest with 121 going north but again nothing else.
  2. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Thanks. Yes, I've been aware but a long way away. Should be down there Thursday and have some advice on where to look. Recent efforts have mostly involved seawatching from Punta Del Hidalgo but only turned up 2 Gannets on 17th Feb and 2 more on 20th and a whole lot more Cory's Shearwaters...
  3. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Others including White-banded Digger Bee.
  4. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Reptiles
  5. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Tenerife, the first 10 days Bajamar The green jagged mountainous landscape of the northern part of Tenerife where we are based is a huge contrast to the arid, flat lands of Fuerteventura. We are based in Bajamar on the edge of the lush laural forests of the Anaga massif and this time a car is...
  6. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Looking forward to seeing your list. Is the Ring-billed Gull still present? According to Macaronesian Birds there are no previous records for Fuerteventura, which I find a little hard to believe.
  7. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Finally got around to doing the list for Fuerteventura. I'll do a summary of the first week or so on Tenerife when I get chance. 55 species of bird seen in the four weeks. All but 5 (in italics) seen without the use of a vehicle. Lifers in bold. PNC = Parque Natural de Corralejo PTC = Punta de...
  8. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    This was two days ago :rolleyes:
  9. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    There's this utterly ridiculous photo if you haven't already seen it elsewhere.
  10. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Not sure but also seen visiting golf course nearby too apparently.
  11. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Yep. Seen Pilot Whales in Biscay a few times. What I was expecting but these were nothing like. The almost orca-like dorsal was very distinctive.
  12. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Friday, 4 February My god Tenerife is green. So green! Four weeks in the desert has obviously dulled the relevant cones. It also seems packed with birds. This is all comparative of course. The short flight over yesterday was uneventful and the first couple of birds after picking up the car were...
  13. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Final week in Corralejo and it still had some things up its sleeve. First of all a couple of moth species new to me. The first is rather large Green Drab. Sadly a very battered specimen with no green colouration found by the road and placed in cover. The second was one of the minute noctuids...
  14. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Apparently the crow was also seen on Lanzarote (got the impression it was today or very recently). There will always be a question mark over origin.
  15. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Wow! Just sat having lunch and a Pied Crow flew over. Headed off south.
  16. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Saturday, 29 January Another calima event with even more saharan dust and even more Vagrant Emperors than last time. Now fairly confident of the ID thanks to sensationally rubbish photos like this one. The Ring-billed Gull continues at the little beach of Playa Corralejo, now coming to bread...
  17. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    I saw the report of Kelp Gull but the location was only given to the region so no idea whereabouts it was seen here. I have a vague recollection that there was a spate of Kelp Gull reports from Western Sahara a decade or so ago that almost all turned out to be GBBG. The Macaronesian Birds app...
  18. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Thanks. Not far from where we had three in flight during our three days with wheels. I've seen many before but would be good to get good views here. Only a few days left here before we move on to Tenerife (where, unexpectedly, we will have a car for the month).
  19. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Friday, 28 January A day of ups and downs. Started with some very crunchy muesli which meant I was half a pre-molar lighter by the time I hit the Parque Natural (fortunately not causing me any pain). The small matter of having to take out the rubbish meant I started a little further west, which...
  20. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Thanks James. Also this evening a large jet black-backed gull went over. Great Black-backed or Kelp are the only options I think. No chance of relocating it today now unfortunately.
  21. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Thursday, 27th Heavy rain overnight and heavy showers today. Ventured out to the Punta de Corralejo at the north of town where I had seen some feeding flocks of gulls offshore yesterday and wanted another look. No such gathering today but a Glossy Ibis flew over heading south. From a quick...
  22. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Sunday, 23 January 2022 Out pre-dawn for another failed attempt at the Courser around Faro De Toston. Very pleasant couple of hours here in beautiful light. Great views of a couple of Stone-curlews, Great Grey Shrike and a cracking flock of about 30 very showy Trumpeter Finches. Picked up...
  23. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Saturday, 22 January 2022 Not a particularly early start but headed off to Faro de Toston (one of the last places Cream-coloured Courser reported on eBird). Apart from Yelllow-legged Gulls and the usual waders the bird life was fairly uninspiring but some extremely close views of Atlantic...
  24. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Friday, 21 January - Wheels! Started with a stroll via the harbour to collect the hire car. Spoonbill "NAJA" was once more feeding there and seemingly very tolerant of people coming up quite close. A Common Chiffchaff was singing away and our bit of town was also suffering from a nasty outbreak...
  25. Brian Stone

    Fuerteventura, Tenerife and Santa Pola; 3 months mostly with no car

    Thursday, 20th January The end of our second, much stormier week here. Highlight was the first winter Ring-billed Gull I found on one of the beaches in the town on Tuesday and also present yesterday (but not seen today). The weather gradually improved today and ended up very warm with much...
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