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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Luis Alberto BIRDAYTRIP" data-source="post: 3310227" data-attributes="member: 122738">Birding around Malaga province (2015.11.05)A necessary exploration after the last heavy rains in Malaga... Have a look at the video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPhwfyjcd4Y&spfreload=10" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPhwfyjcd4Y&spfreload=10</a> !I started the day at dawn at El Torcal on my way to the Laguna de Fuente Piedra. Some of the typical winter visitors like Song Thrushes and Ring Ouzels are present in good numbers while other attractive residents like Choughs, Rock and Cirl Buntings and Rock Sparrows keep calling from the rocks all the time and the Griffon Vultures circle in nice flocks over the plateau.The Laguna de Fuente de Piedra has recovered a small part of its level of water, but it still has to rain much more. The ponds around the visitors centre are still completely dry though a walk beyond the wooden bridge can give us Stone Curlew, Iberian Grey Shrike, Chiffchaff, Cetti’s Warbler, Meadow and White Pipit, Hoopoe and, this time, a Dartford Warbler in the scrub. The Mastic Trees at Cerro del Palo attract big number of Greenfinches and House Sparrows to which is worthwhile having a look in search for Spanish ones.The little lakes around Campillos are still dry as well but life goes on in the farmlands with Little Bustards, Crested Larks, newly arrived Skylarks and the noisy winter flocks of the Calandra Larks.I wanted to enjoy the late evening light of the Laguna Grande at the Mouth of the Guadalhorce, where the level of water has increased significantly and waterfowl can happily swim. The population of Shovelers has risen in the last days and the White-headed Ducks, normally confined to the Lagunas Escondida and de la Casilla, have taken possession of the Laguna Grande. All the little islands in this pool have disappeared so waders must have gone to the Rio Viejo except a flock of several Greenshanks that did not give up flying in search of a shallow.</blockquote>

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