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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eddy the eagle" data-source="post: 3062298" data-attributes="member: 111291">An unusual start to the day yesterday with misty conditions and low early morning cloud but when I got to Algarrobo at 8.30 there ws already birders present and were we in for an early morning treat.Through the mist came  a flurry of Montague´s harriers one group amounting to twenty at the same time mainly adult males and juveniles and in the hour that followed over fifty came and went.In my 22 years watching the migration I have never seen so many at one time.There must have been a communal roost somewhere in the Alcornacales  forest to produce such numbers but for the 5or 6 birders present it will be one that remains in the memory.During the morning good numbers of black kite,honey buzzard,beeaters together with the odd marsh and montague´s harrier and as the skies cleared booted and short toed eagles put in an appearance together with the odd egyptian vulture and the resident griffon vultures and the party of ravens that have been in the area for the last few days.Incidently does anyone know the collective noun for a group of ravens?Somewhere in the depths of my now memory loosing brain the name "Jury" springs to mind but I am probably wrong as I often am these days.Being a Sunday  there were large bers of Spanish,Dutch and English birders present and the steady flow of birds heading south did not disappoint.Regards to all ...Eddy</blockquote>