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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allen S. Moore" data-source="post: 1482882" data-attributes="member: 22662">24 hours in BarcelonaI enjoyed 3 days in Barcelona earlier in the month, but the first 2 of those were spent outside the city on excellent day trips with Stephen Christopher - thanks for those, Stephen.I had one whole day in Barcelona, 7th May, on which I recorded 25 species of birds, with another 2 on the way to Barcelona Airport the next morning. I visited the same open spaces on the 7th as on my April 2007 visit, seeing rather fewer species than during those 3 days as there were fewer migrant waders and passerines this time. Indeed, the only waders that I saw on my visit on the 7th were 2 little ringed plovers on a gravel bank in Riu Besòs. I recorded 4 species of warblers that day, a blackcap in scrub by Avinguda Meridiana along from Torre Agbar and the rest singing in long vegetation by Riu Besòs - 4 cetti's warblers, 2 fan-tailed warblers and a reed warbler. You don't usually see many birds in Barri Gòtic, the oldest part of the city, except for feral rock doves, but this time I saw a female blackbird feeding on crumbs in the very narrow Carrer de la Lleona, close to Plaça Reial. The blackbird flew up the 5 or so storeys and disappeared over a roof, but it is anyone's guess where it would be nesting.I had a real treat that evening, watching a pair of peregrines at La Sagrada Familia, the great unfinished church. True enough, I see them often enough back home in the Isle of Man and had seen one the day before in the Pre-Pyrenees with Stephen. However, it was great to be watching the peregrines around this iconic church.Other species seen during the day were mallard, moorhen, yellow-legged gull, woodpigeon, collared dove, monk parakeet, swift, swallow, house martin, white wagtail, magpie, jackdaw, starling, spotless starling, house sparrow, serin and goldfinch.On the way to the Airport bus early the next morning there was a common chiffchaff singing in Plaça de Catalunya, and from the bus I saw 2 alpine swifts with their common relatives further out.Oh for the next visit!</blockquote>

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