Lapland Bunting was at Lagoa dos Salgados, 30 September at 15.50 hrs. Flushed from roadside 50 metres north of restaurant near the marsh.A Lapland butting? When and where?
(Lesser Yellowlegs and White-winged Tern still there today.)
Lapland Bunting was at Lagoa dos Salgados, 30 September at 15.50 hrs. Flushed from roadside 50 metres north of restaurant near the marsh.A Lapland butting? When and where?
Lapland Bunting was at Lagoa dos Salgados, 30 September at 15.50 hrs. Flushed from roadside 50 metres north of restaurant near the marsh.
(Lesser Yellowlegs and White-winged Tern still there today.)
Ok, Lapland bunting from a Portuguese perspective is a much more important bird than lesser yellowlegs and the tern, it´s a pity that news of the bird just come out now.
But a great find!
Booted Warbler still present at circa 17.45 (in same bush with two Zitting Cisticola) Tues 6th.
BTW Simon, have not forgotten about Lap Bunting pic and will send a description next week when I return home.
OK, a few points here:Unfortunately the Booted Warbler hasn't been seen today.
Re; Lapland Bunting, it would be great to see any photos - even poor ones, which I think you said they were. As Pedro urges - its a pity you didn't have a contact to alert folk down here. If you find anything else it would be great if you could even post a thread on the Portuguese bit of Birdforum - enough folk are looking and will get the alert out pretty fast. I know you had found it quite few days ago - when was it exactly? - it may still be worth a look.
Alternatively, there is an email rare birds group on Yahoo groups for Portugal that most are signed up to....its called; raridades. Also, all of us get the word out by phone if its something like the Booted Warbler! So that's always a possibility if you have a contact. There aren't that many rarities found in the Algarve by visitors so phoning would never be an overload for anyone. Its the best way for urgent news like yesterday with the Booted Warbler - if the phone wasn't used only 5-6 people would have seen it as it was at the end of the day - as it happened some 10 more enjoyed it because of the calls.
I met a number of birders who concurred with your report this morning, MattiasPretty good movement from the Cape Vincent in the morning, 7.30 - 9.30: cory's 2200 (feeding and moving south), sooties 41, balearic 44, great shearwater 2, manx 1, grey phalarope 3, arctic skua 3, etc. Very few nocturnal passerines around the bushes though.
3. I did mention the sighting to you the following day at Cabronsa but you appear to be inundated with various reports/assisting people so maybe the report slipped by.
Yes - exactly right! So sorry about that but I did take your observation seriously and somehow forgot to mention to others - very understanding of you. I don't remember the date..? 5th Oct?
4. As mentioned above, I will send you the pics next week when I return home.
I'd love to see them - and if you don't mind will pass them on to the rarities comittee here. It would be a great record if accepted, lets hope so and as you mentioned, your photos are recrod shots - lets hope they show enough to clinch it!. Look here and the dozen records in Portugal are mjuch further north - it would be a first for the Algarve:http://www.avesdeportugal.info/callap.html
6. Re the Booted Warbler, I was not aware that it was there when I saw it (I had seen the Ortolans previously, thanks to you, and was looking for the Richard's and Tawnys).
Don't know if I understand you correctly that you managed to see the Booted Warbler - hope you did as it was a cracking bird and only known to be around between about 15.30 and sunset on 6th October. The ID was made after 17.00 and only then was there a scramble of phone calls and about 15 folk got to see it - despite much searching the bird was unfortunately not found the following morning. The 2 Richard's are still in the general area - not seen Tawny for a few days.
All the best
Pretty good movement from the Cape Vincent in the morning, 7.30 - 9.30: cory's 2200 (feeding and moving south), sooties 41, balearic 44, great shearwater 2, manx 1, grey phalarope 3, arctic skua 3, etc. Very few nocturnal passerines around the bushes though.
Hi Simon,AC - thanks! I've just come on here and in a hurry - so will answer some of your points. Firstly though - writing stuff on a forum can easily lose its meaning and in no way was I crtiticising - in a foreign conutry it can be tough to know how to report stuff and to know what is interesting to us - for example a Redpoll would be fabulous to us down here!
Hope to meet you again out here