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Message: <blockquote data-quote="carpentera" data-source="post: 1683015" data-attributes="member: 81156">Hi allThe 'grey' egret at Santa Luzia can usually be found at low tide in the channel by the gate to the saltpans.  It has been favouring that spot for at least the last four years.  We, too, have photographs of it standing on the fence there.A colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit has been seen between Tavira and Santa Luzia in December 2006, 2007 and 2008.  If details are available of the bird seen recently, we would be pleased to have them.  It would be nice if it were the same bird, ringed in Iceland in 2002.We see Slender-billed Gulls pretty regularly at Castro Marim, Tavira and Santa Luzia.  Until this year the species was treated as a rarity by SPEA and it still is rare in the rest of Portugal.  Hope that helpsPeter & June<a href="http://jupiterbirding.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://jupiterbirding.blogspot.com</a></blockquote>