Luis Alberto BIRDAYTRIP
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Birding at Calaburras and the Mirador de las Aguilas with SEO-Malaga (2014.10.04)
Massive passage of Balearic Shearwaters from Calaburras and nice selection of raptors at the Mirador de las Aguilas.
There was a strange tweeting going on at dawn around the Calaburras hide... The first light of the day gave us a Kingfisher sitting on the rocks below us.
A big amount of Balearic Shearwaters were flying into the quiet Mediterranean, and several Scopoli’s ones saying goodbye westwards. Gannets also flew by in big number.
Some of our fellows in the hide found a Peregrine Falcon plunging on the passing shearwaters very far from the shore. You never know what nature is going to offer you!
Other visitors of the site were Sandwich Terns, a Little Egret who caught a fish just in front of the hide, Sanderlings, Turnstones and a couple of Whimbrels in flight to the Strait, one of them stopping to say hello.
Pete and Satori represented Andalucia Bird Society at this event.
The Mirador de las Aguilas does not show the activity of the last weeks but there are still some Honey Buzzards, Booted Eagles, Sparrowhawks, Barn and Red-rumped Swallows and Redstarts passing over.
We could also see some locals like three Bonelli’s Eagles a Peregrine Falcon, Kestrels, Jays and an Iberian Shrike.
It was great to hear the powerful song of a Woodlark sitting on a burnt pine tree when I was leaving the site. With no doubt, sooner or later, life will come back to this wonderful place as it was before the terrible fire four years ago.
Massive passage of Balearic Shearwaters from Calaburras and nice selection of raptors at the Mirador de las Aguilas.
There was a strange tweeting going on at dawn around the Calaburras hide... The first light of the day gave us a Kingfisher sitting on the rocks below us.
A big amount of Balearic Shearwaters were flying into the quiet Mediterranean, and several Scopoli’s ones saying goodbye westwards. Gannets also flew by in big number.
Some of our fellows in the hide found a Peregrine Falcon plunging on the passing shearwaters very far from the shore. You never know what nature is going to offer you!
Other visitors of the site were Sandwich Terns, a Little Egret who caught a fish just in front of the hide, Sanderlings, Turnstones and a couple of Whimbrels in flight to the Strait, one of them stopping to say hello.
Pete and Satori represented Andalucia Bird Society at this event.
The Mirador de las Aguilas does not show the activity of the last weeks but there are still some Honey Buzzards, Booted Eagles, Sparrowhawks, Barn and Red-rumped Swallows and Redstarts passing over.
We could also see some locals like three Bonelli’s Eagles a Peregrine Falcon, Kestrels, Jays and an Iberian Shrike.
It was great to hear the powerful song of a Woodlark sitting on a burnt pine tree when I was leaving the site. With no doubt, sooner or later, life will come back to this wonderful place as it was before the terrible fire four years ago.