BirdForum is the net's largest birding community dedicated to wild birds and birding, and is absolutely FREE!

Register for an account to take part in lively discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew" data-source="post: 1594515" data-attributes="member: 459">Thought I'd let you you know how I got on. Not very well at all really as I was hit early in the holiday by a harsh fever which left me feeling very tired and lazy for the rest of the holiday.It was not a total loss as I did have a nice enough trip anyway. Black Wheatear and Monk Parakeet were ticks. Dipped the Sandgrouse on the only trip to Lleida plains and left out the Pyrennees altogether for a dedicated trip sometime soon.Paid a visit to the Garraf quite a few times but sadly no luck with Bonelli's Eagles, a nice place to dip anyway.The Ebro Delta (southern half) was very enjoyable.Butterflies were good. Sage Skippers, Tree Graylings, Great Banded Graylings, Two-tailed Pashas, Lang's Short-tailed Blues, Long-tailed Blues, Bath Whites, Mallow Skippers, Plain Tigers and many commoner species and other unidentified fly bys.Easy enough to get into Barcelona on the train too for a 'Gaudi' day tour.Currently the southern half of Llobregat (Remolar I think) is devoid of water. Maybe filled up now but the northern section (Ricarda?) was okay.On the whole the Catalonia region is a good place for casual birding as well as landscape photography. I'd recommend it.I struggled to find any English leaflets/booklets but there were some cracking booklets in Spanish/Catalan with routes and walks in the Barcelona district full of maps, photos, info, etc. I picked up a spare copy of each (four) to post to anyone who might want them if they can stump up the postage.Thanks again for all the responses to this thread.</blockquote>

Verification