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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Luis Alberto BIRDAYTRIP" data-source="post: 3229803" data-attributes="member: 122738">Birdwatching at Fuente de Piedra & El Chorro (2015.06.02)Black-winged Kites, Lesser Flamingos, Black Wheatears and Rufous Bush Robin were some of the targets for the day.We started in the farmlands around Campillos where amongst Hoopoes, Crested and Calandra Larks, and lots of Gull-billed Terns quartering the wheat fields like raptors, spotted a wonderful family of Black-winged Kites that we kept on enjoying with the telescopes for quite a long while. Surprisingly for the time of year, a Roller flew past our position and sat on a distant tree for a short time.Two pairs of Montagu’s Harriers on the way to the Laguna Dulce, where there was a lot of Flamingos, Red-crested Pochards, Red-necked Grebes and several Whiskered Terns. Believe it or not, there were Alpine Swifts at the bottom of the lake!The Fuente Piedra Lake is almost dry after an extremely short rainfall this season but there are still some flocks of Flamingos feeding in the last ponds with at least three Lesser Flamingos among them. We will always have the Laguneto as a last resort, showing very close Flamingos and lots of breeding Avocets, Black-winged Stilts, Red-crested Pochards and other ducks including Shelducks, and Black-headed Gulls.We unsuccessfully tried the Rufous Bush Robin around Mollina before heading to El Chorro. I hope I can eventually find some of them before the end of the summer...We climbed to the top of the cliffs with quite a strong south wind that made it a bit difficult to spot the little bird in the woods and the scrub. Anyway, we got excellent views of Rock Buntings, Crossbills, Blue Rock Thrushes, Black Wheatears and, on the way down the top, after watching vultures and Alpine Swifts, a male Dartford Warbler still singing from the top of a bush and a Short-toed Treecreeper.Nice birdaytrip!!!</blockquote>

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