honeym
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It´s already quite warm today so I´m just back from a sedate whizz round the hides.
Sa Roca had an Osprey with fish (as usual) plus about 8 (visible) Wood Sandpipers (no doubt there are more there hidden from view in the new emergent vegetation). 1♀ Red-crested Pochard now with just 4 ducklings (the others no doubt predated by the Yellow-legged Gulls there).
By the 3rd bridge had excellent views of the ♂ Little Bittern (sorry Clive).
Es Cibollar I had three Avocet, a pair of which were mating and nest scraping with the other asleep on the spit. ALso one Black-tailed Godwit asleep on the spit and 2 Little Stint doing the same in the dead vegeation (it must be the heat). One European Pond Terrapin right in front of the hide. Most of the Spotted Redshank are now almost black so, presumably, they´ve been moulting into their breeding plumage for the last few weeks which is why they´ve been around so long. One raptor over, calling. Will have to check out the call as it was too distant to id by the time I picked it up.
Martin
Sa Roca had an Osprey with fish (as usual) plus about 8 (visible) Wood Sandpipers (no doubt there are more there hidden from view in the new emergent vegetation). 1♀ Red-crested Pochard now with just 4 ducklings (the others no doubt predated by the Yellow-legged Gulls there).
By the 3rd bridge had excellent views of the ♂ Little Bittern (sorry Clive).
Es Cibollar I had three Avocet, a pair of which were mating and nest scraping with the other asleep on the spit. ALso one Black-tailed Godwit asleep on the spit and 2 Little Stint doing the same in the dead vegeation (it must be the heat). One European Pond Terrapin right in front of the hide. Most of the Spotted Redshank are now almost black so, presumably, they´ve been moulting into their breeding plumage for the last few weeks which is why they´ve been around so long. One raptor over, calling. Will have to check out the call as it was too distant to id by the time I picked it up.
Martin