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Mallorca 2016 (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Mike Montier
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honeym
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Just back from a brief session feeding the local mozzies! Despite repellant!!
Some Starlings pre-roosting just down from the Pont se Sa Roca (the main bridge over the canal). Then a flock of maybe 2000 flying over into the sunset, plus a couple more groups of several hundred each n- so numbers are starting to build up. I heard the big flock long before I could see them.
Great, close views of Great White Egret (Heron) at Sa Roca but not much else apart from some more Snipe -. and more mozzies!
They're something I won't miss when I leave on Tuesday.
Martin
Some Starlings pre-roosting just down from the Pont se Sa Roca (the main bridge over the canal). Then a flock of maybe 2000 flying over into the sunset, plus a couple more groups of several hundred each n- so numbers are starting to build up. I heard the big flock long before I could see them.
Great, close views of Great White Egret (Heron) at Sa Roca but not much else apart from some more Snipe -. and more mozzies!
They're something I won't miss when I leave on Tuesday.
Martin
Mike Montier
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Oops, sorry Craig, I must have mis-read that. Mike
Mike Montier
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I will ask around about the rings and report the numbers given, many thanks. I will let you know if I get any information. Mike
eagle33
Craig Shaw
eagle33
Craig Shaw
thanks mike. keep up the great work on here. it makes birding in Majorca much more enjoyable when you get to see everyone's reports and pictures.
Keeps the excitement going.
Josep Manchado
(Pep)
As Mike says, today has been one of these greats days in Cap Salines, one Lesser Spotted Eagle with a group of 11 Booted Eagles has offered us one of the best moments of the autumn migration!
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KEVIN ELSBY
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Mike Montier
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Hi Kevin. Glad you are having a good time.
Black-necked Grebe do not breed but are always a great bird to see, especially in breeding plumage which sometimes they are.
They can be seen in ones and twos around the reserves, mainly in the north. There are sometimes large concentrations especially at Bassa de Can Guidet where groups of forty or fifty are not uncommon in winter. Also seen at Albufera, Maristany and the main reserve. Lovely birds and a nice photo. Mike
Black-necked Grebe do not breed but are always a great bird to see, especially in breeding plumage which sometimes they are.
They can be seen in ones and twos around the reserves, mainly in the north. There are sometimes large concentrations especially at Bassa de Can Guidet where groups of forty or fifty are not uncommon in winter. Also seen at Albufera, Maristany and the main reserve. Lovely birds and a nice photo. Mike
honeym
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OK, my memory may be at fault but I seem to recall seeing young at the Depuradora on year. Is it possible?
Martin
Mike Montier
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I can find no records of breeding Black-necked Grebes, it seems they have not been recorded in May, June or July, but there have been birds seen in every other month.
I know that Great-crested Grebes are now breeding.
I will double check but this seems to be the case as far as I can make out.
Enjoy your last day Martin, sorry I have not made it up north recently, we have had an endless stream of guests for the past few weeks. I will do my best with moths this winter and report here. Mike
I know that Great-crested Grebes are now breeding.
I will double check but this seems to be the case as far as I can make out.
Enjoy your last day Martin, sorry I have not made it up north recently, we have had an endless stream of guests for the past few weeks. I will do my best with moths this winter and report here. Mike
honeym
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OK Mike. I'll look back through my notes but you're probably right.
After the beach (2 Kestrel and a few Audouinś gulls) I went for a last visit to the Depuradora. Wood, Green and Common Sand., 4 Ruff, 8 Whinchat (probably more) and finally, courtesy of Graham, a cracking white-spotted Bluethroat - in good light! It was under a buch at the junction of the first two lagoons nearest the platform. Just a stunning bird.
Will add the final moth count when I've entered the tally for the last two nights (it seems strange not putting the trap out!).
Martin
After the beach (2 Kestrel and a few Audouinś gulls) I went for a last visit to the Depuradora. Wood, Green and Common Sand., 4 Ruff, 8 Whinchat (probably more) and finally, courtesy of Graham, a cracking white-spotted Bluethroat - in good light! It was under a buch at the junction of the first two lagoons nearest the platform. Just a stunning bird.
Will add the final moth count when I've entered the tally for the last two nights (it seems strange not putting the trap out!).
Martin
Mike Montier
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Well done with the Bluethroat Martin, as you say, a stunning bird to see and just where they often show.
I, and I'm sure others, will be very interested to read about your moth count, thanks. Safe trip home. Mike
I, and I'm sure others, will be very interested to read about your moth count, thanks. Safe trip home. Mike
honeym
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I have to say that all the credit goes to Graham. I hope that I would have spotted it - but I'm not sure.
I've just finished adding the species from the last two nights. The final tally was 178 species of moths in the three weeks - to be added to this are a few species that will need to be checked once I'm back home so I expect it will eventually be around the 190 mark. I won't bore you all with a full list but when I get back home I will post a few names and pictures.
To those who are still here, or are even luckier and are resident, continue to have a good trip/year and thanks for all the postings while I've been here. Even though I missed most of them, it's good to know what's about.
Best wishes
(now for the packing!)
Martin
I've just finished adding the species from the last two nights. The final tally was 178 species of moths in the three weeks - to be added to this are a few species that will need to be checked once I'm back home so I expect it will eventually be around the 190 mark. I won't bore you all with a full list but when I get back home I will post a few names and pictures.
To those who are still here, or are even luckier and are resident, continue to have a good trip/year and thanks for all the postings while I've been here. Even though I missed most of them, it's good to know what's about.
Best wishes
(now for the packing!)
Martin
Graham Moffat
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Depuradora
Hello
Thanks Martin – nice to meet you again last evening. Yes – male bluethroat [cyanecula] at the Depuradora yesterday. I’m attaching a rubbish very distant image of one of another two present there on Saturday evening. Also there yesterday a Temminck’s stint, 4 ruff, a kingfisher and a late/passage reed warbler. An eclipse drake northern pintail also there earlier in the week – not seen many of this species on Mallorca. Noted a black headed gull there with a white plastic ring on its right leg and an aluminium on its left – couldn’t read numbers though.
Graham
Hello
Thanks Martin – nice to meet you again last evening. Yes – male bluethroat [cyanecula] at the Depuradora yesterday. I’m attaching a rubbish very distant image of one of another two present there on Saturday evening. Also there yesterday a Temminck’s stint, 4 ruff, a kingfisher and a late/passage reed warbler. An eclipse drake northern pintail also there earlier in the week – not seen many of this species on Mallorca. Noted a black headed gull there with a white plastic ring on its right leg and an aluminium on its left – couldn’t read numbers though.
Graham
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Mike Montier
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A Richard's Pipit has been seen today at Can Curassa, a very rare bird these days in Mallorca. I believe they used to be more regular but I don't remember a single sighting in the last few years. Mike
Mike Montier
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Thanks Graham. For anyone wanting to see Bluethroat in Mallorca, I believe the depuradora would be the most reliable site. I have seen up to nine birds there in a single day. They are quite hard to see when they pop out onto the causeway, flit about for a while before disappearing shortly afterwards.
Sometimes they are much closer to the platform which is nice and their lovely plumage can be more fully appreciated. Mike
Sometimes they are much closer to the platform which is nice and their lovely plumage can be more fully appreciated. Mike
nick scarle
Leo
I certainly saw Black-necked Grebe at Depuradora in May 2010. No young birds but a very nice breeding plumage adult.
Nick
Mike Montier
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Thanks Nick, I am still checking through old records but no evidence of breeding yet. I also saw a late spring bird at the depuradora and what a brilliant bird to see in breeding plumage. Mike
