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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barred Wobbler" data-source="post: 2239858" data-attributes="member: 69394">I went up to Fuente de Piedra and Laguna Dulce this afternoon. Loads of water at both places. Reasonable, but not large numbers of flamigos at Fuente - all greater as far as I could see. Avocets, stilts, shovelers and a lapwing were the supporting cast. The tamarisks that have grown between the lake and the path east from the visitor centre are now hiding the lake completelyOne bird caught my eye and it had me guessing for a bit. It zoomed around the pool below the visitors' centre a few times. White body, longish winged with a mottled grey and black mantle and wings, I didn't know what to make of it. I suggested to my wife that it might be a Racing Seagull.It didn't help when it landed behind some ducks on the far bank and all I could make out was a white head and neck with a shortish red bill with a blackish tip. Wind wobble on my scope made things worse. After a few minutes it stepped more into view, revaling itself as a leucistic ruff. A funny looking thing.Laguna Dulce had loads of white-headed ducks and black-necked grebes and coots.One pleasant find at Guadalhorce was a tiny chameleon, only a couple of inches long that I found crossing the path in front of me. Otherwise it was quiet, but we were speaking to a local British birder at Laguna Grande who was off for his lunch and had had a really good morning with 72 species including honey buzzard and osprey amonng the raptors, three pintail and a good assortment of waders.</blockquote>

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