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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StewB" data-source="post: 3162458" data-attributes="member: 32149">Thanks Mike - the dodgy takeaway was in the UK the evening before we left, but its impact remained with us!A better day today! Started at Toucan Marsh, where the scaup wasn't too difficult ('though a fem tufted with a large face blaze had me going for a few moments!). As you say, there was a nice selection of wilfowl - the male red crested pochards looking especially fetching! I went to the Depuradora next. A bit shocked to find the normal approach road (entrance by the bus garage) closed about 200m before the track to the viewing tower. No problem though, just necessitated a bit of walking, which produced a small (c8) flock of skylarks and 4 lapwings (both Mallorca ticks for me). At the Depuradora there werelots more wildfowl, a few waders (common and green sandpipers) and a really nice water pipit.I moved on to Son Real, where the sun came out and temperatures rose. Among a nice selection of birds were 8+ Thekla larks on the beach-side scrub, a Sandwich tern just offshore and a solitary Audouin's gull on the rocky outcrops. On the way back to the car park I was puzzled by an unfamiliar song of mixed harsh and sweet notes. This turned out to be a singing crossbill, but it sounded very different to my recollection of the song in the UK. Best bird was a siskin, which called as it flew into a nearby pine tree. With hoopoes, lots more black redstarts and robins, and an osprey along the way, not a bad day's birding!Stew</blockquote>

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