Tenerife in November (1 Viewer)

Hi All,

Will be based in Los Cristianos with no car in mid-November. Hoping for some advice on places to go that are accessible on foot or with public transport. Target species are Blue Chaffinch and White-tailed and Bolle's Pigeon but happy to have advice on any species really.

Thanks in advance

Rach

For Blue Chaffinch get a bus from Los Christianos to Arona, then get another bus to Vilaflor. From there get a taxi to Las Lajas and back. There are Blue Chaffinches closer to Vilaflor at the Casa Forestal.

The pigeons are a wee bit harder from Los Christianos. One way would be to get the ferry from there to San Sebastián De La Gomera. From there get a taxi to Carbonera, where you should see the pigeons. A chance of cetaceans and some seabirds from the ferry, especially the slower ARMAS Ferry.

David

Just come to the end of a laid back two week stay on Tenerife, mainly for pics of birds, but with absolutely no emphasis on getting a big list, so I never went looking for turnstones etc.

Plenty of Bolle’s pigeons at Erjos when the cloud allowed and it was good to see that where on my last visit in 2013 I had to follow a well hidden path to sit on an outcrop a few hundred metres from the radio station, they have build a brand new wooden mirador allowing great views over the forest.

The nearby Erjos pools weren’t so good. Hardly any water, even in January, and what there was is shrinking fast. There was a noticeable difference between the time we arrived a fortnight ago and this morning. Only two of the pools had any water at all. The rest are bone dry and they look like they’ve been that way a long time, looking at the vegetation growing in them. Even the pools with water were short of it, with only a small part of the area containing any water at all and that was only a few inches deep. A couple of coots, a moorhen and a snipe were the only water birds we saw there.