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Mallorca 2018 (2 Viewers)

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Hi Mike, my local patch is Swillington Ings/St Aidan's check our web pages SIBG. You can easily spend a day or in the valley. Good luck if you meet any of the regulars mention John Martin, they will help with sittings
 
Thanks both of you for the recommendations for birding locally. I will certainly get to at least one of them and I will let you know.
The UK was at its very best yesterday with a walk down the river Severn near Shrewsbury. The autumn tints looked beautiful and the birding was pretty good too. Very nice to be here for a while. Mike
 
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I've put together some notes from my week on the Island at the end of September.

Stew
 

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Great to be back on the Island. First day doing stuff but managed trip around La Gola and along Can Currasa road.
Bumped into John(beckcottage birder) at La Gola. Some 400 common starlings passed over. We both saw the juvenile Night Heron.
Other birds seen included 5 spotless starling, Great and Little Egrets, Purple Heron, Ravens, Common Kestrels, whinchats, fantailed, sardinian and cetti warblers. Several gray wagtails seen.
A great day, hopefully drying out the rest of the island.
 
Perfect Saturday. Visit to Albuferata tower, Maristany and ending up with Marvellous presentation on Mallorcan Subspps at La Gola by Christina.(sorry for the bad photo).

Bird seen today included Red Kite, Booted Eagles, Marsh Harriers, Great White, Little and Cattle Egrets, Stone Curlews(H), Common and red crested Pochards, Little Grebes, Moorhens, Fantailed and Cetti warblers.

And of course Subspps Crossbills.
 

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Sorry, just returned from walk along the sands in Port de Pollensa. Several Audouins gulls, Yellow legged gulls and three sandwich terns on the rocks.
Mike
 
Booted eagles continue to be the most numerous migrant raptor yet again. Before last year, I hardly ever saw any entering or leaving Mallorca.
Last year there were record numbers and this year looks like being the same with 37 yesterday and 68 today.
It will be interesting to see what the final figure is.
Also some Hobby, migrant Kestrels and Black Kite.
Mike
 
Majorca Sept 2018

Still not finished going through my photos but here are a few.
Steve.
Little Stint Salbufera. still waiting for a report back from the ringer.
Wood Sands Sillot Playa de Muro.
Spotless Starlings Can Cuarassa
Glossy Ibis Son Bosc.
 

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Majorca Sept 2018

Curlew Sand Silott Playa de Muro. X2
Ruff and Spotted Redshank Salbufera.
Marbled Duck Salbufera.
Steve.
 

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Thanks Steve as usual for your photos. It keeps us all going during lean times.
I particularly liked the Spotted redshank and Ruff together, a nice comparison.
Mike
 
cheers Mike, nice one with the SEO.
garganey Salbufera.
Squacco Sillot Player de Muro.
Woodchat Albufereta.
Temmincks Sillot player de Muro.
Steve.
 

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This morning along Cami de Llenaire,
Peregrine 1
Black Vulture 1
Booted Eagle 2
Bonelli's Eagle 1
Swift so(pallid) c 30
Redstart 1
Later a Black Vulture was in a ploughed field, west of Torrent San Jordi Flew to within 10 metres never thought we would be eye to eye with a BV.
Stone Curlew 3, by the Cami de Ca Volentina
 
156 Booted eagles was the total for the long weekend at the Cap.
All birds flew to the south very high.
Thanks Lalo et al for the information.
I will be there next weekend.
Mike
 
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