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Mallorca 2018 (1 Viewer)

Iguana?

I have found this bug in my backyard in Palma!!!!
Is it an iguana?
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Crikey Pep, that’s an odd one. How did it get to Mallorca? It’s an iguana I think but there are some experts on this thread who will know more.
Over to you...
Mike
 
Thanks for checking up the gull. Perhaps the English name is from an earlier era. Not good enough sighting too book it.

Afternoon today a walk through northern part of Son Real from Son Baulo. Coots, moorhen, collared dove by the pond. Audouins gull, a handful, by the beach. Kentish by the path downwards. One or two Balearic warblers singing very shortly in the shrub before necropoli where there were Audouins and Stonechats.

Took path 4 clockwise back to the car. Not so much there. A juv Woodchat shrike, some Sardinian warblers, a few Mediterranean flycatchers is worth mentioning. /Johan
 
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Family trip Alcudia-Soller-Cuber-Alcudia today. In Soller a strange singing blackcap? Had Finch like jupp jupp in the song. I'll see if I can share a recording later. Just N of Soller at approx 13:30 a dark blackish raptor, short view. Disappeared before I could spot it with binos. Medium to large, quite flat wings, hands a bit down and backwards. Inner hand paler window. Perhaps a black kite but I think I should have seen its brown tone.

Crag martins at the first tunnel towards Cuber. At Cuber singing Nightingales, Chaffinch, Serin, Med. flyc. Then a Spectacled w singing just SE of dam, another to the E.

A Raven in N, then a Black vulture, one more vulture. At least 5 Black v, some passed us when they went S. Also with the vultures when they were really high up one or two raptors that gave a pale impression. A bit smaller than the vultures, like a oversized Goosehawk. Left for another day. Binos was lent out and the birds were gone. /Johan
 
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A lovely adult Slender-billed Gull was seen at Salobrar de Campos yesterday but despite a quick dash there, I couldn’t relocate it.
I counted about 120 Flamingoes though, quite a high number for the time of the year.
Lots of Avocet, Shelduck and Kentish plovers there too.
Mike
 
Afternoon visit to S'Albufera. Flamingos no longer at Es Cibollar 1, hide 12. Many Kentish though 41. Sa Roca a Marbled duck landed in the distance, new sp for my world list. Stilts and swamphen showing nice with Shelduck, as usual. From the obs hill several Purple herons and a Squacco. An Osprey in W also several Marsh h in the air. A Great reed w was singing very short.

On my way out there was an Eleonora flying over doing some circles over the canal. A first for the trip. /Johan
 
Hi Mike
The more the merrier!
It's a Double-striped Pug, Gymnoscelis rufifasciata. They are somewhat bigger and brighter than ones in the UK.
Martin
 
I have been to both Salobrar de Campos and Colonia Sant Jordi for the last four days in search of the elusive Slender-billed Gull but no luck.
Lots of water at a Sant Jordi which surprised me. The species which breed at the salt pans seem to have had a jolly time with lots of juveniles running around. Very aggressive Redshanks and Black-winged stilts in evidence.
Also, raptors filling the skies with a good selection including Booted Eagle, Red Kite, Marsh Harrier, Kestrel and two Common Buzzard reported from Cap de Ses Salines. This species may have bred in the area last year. I am waiting for photographs to be sent before confirming. I have been there many times but failed to see them.
Another moth in the meantime.
Mike
 
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Hi Mike
This is a moth equivalent of an LBJ. It's one of two species that occur on Mallorca, both of which also occur in the UK and they are best determined on genitalia. One is Oegoconia caradjai and the other is Oegoconia quadripuncta.
Based on the fact that yours is less yellow than some I've seen I would guess the latter.
Martin
 
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Now back home in Sweden, some problems with the air travel through France could apparently be solved through flying at 40000 feet. Perhaps a country ATC does not reach that high up.

Friday I spent a few afternoon hours at Boquer in search of raptors. According to some birders from UK I met a Griffon vulture had been seen in the morning sitting on the left ridge somewhere. I saw no vultures but an Eleonora flying into the value from south. A Peregrine falcon was annoyed by a Kestrel which was escorted out of the valley. I also saw a Kestrel on the hills to the right after the finca. Walked halfway towards the sea, spent some time in the shrub. To the right there was 2 Blue rock thrushes, male and 1cal/female. A wren singing, many Sardinian warblers a female stonechat. Back at the finca there was a Blackcap singing in the forest in the valley, a Cirl bunting singing shortly, many Mediterranean flycatchers around.

Yesterday on the way back to the airport there was a Booted eagle foraging together with a Kestrel, between Sant Joan and Montuiri.

In summary another enjoyable visit to Mallorca, great nature, great people, great vacation. Thanks!

Some captures:

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmkj78KD

https://youtu.be/mcF74eN_JBA
 
Off to see the Nightjars again tonight.
In the meantime another moth.
I will have to ask my friend to use a better camera, I think he uses his iPad which won’t be good enough for any contentious species.
Mike
 
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Off to see the Nightjars again tonight.
In the meantime another moth.
I will have to ask my friend to use a better camera, I think he uses his iPad which won’t be good enough for any contentious species.
Mike

Hi Mike, I think the moth is a Bloxworth Snout (great name) but I'm sure Martin will confirm. I get them quite often on my terrace in Arta.
 
Off to see the Nightjars again tonight.
In the meantime another moth.
I will have to ask my friend to use a better camera, I think he uses his iPad which won’t be good enough for any contentious species.
Mike
Hi Mike
As Kevin has said, it is a Bloxworth Snout (Hypena obsitalis). It was formerly just an immigrant to the UK but is now resident in parts of Devon, Cornwall and Dorset. It's name comes from the locality where it was first seen in the UK, in 1884. Kevin posted one here from Arta on 23 Oct 2015. It's not something I see very often at s'Albufera but I have records from a few places on Mallorca and most of the rest of the islands.
Martin
 
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Thanks Martin.
I go out most evenings to see either the Shearwaters or Nightjars here in the south although it’s much quieter now with few Scops owls calling recently. The Stone Curlews are really noisy at the moment though, it’s a great sight to watch them flying around at dusk.
I have had a request from a visiting birder for information about Nightjars in the north, preferably near Pollensa. If anyone knows a reliable site could they please help Barry?
Many thanks, I haven’t heard about any in the north for this year.
Mike
 
I have had a request from a visiting birder for information about Nightjars in the north, preferably near Pollensa. If anyone knows a reliable site could they please help Barry?
Many thanks, I haven’t heard about any in the north for this year.
Mike

Hi Mike

I used to get them calling when I was moth trapping on the dunes of Es Comu. It's been a couple of years since I've done that at the right time of year but I imagine they are still there. Any of the wooded areas between the hotels opposite s'Albufera and the roundabout at Can Picafort might be worth a search - bearing in mind to enter only from either end and not as the tourists do (off the main road!).
 
Thank you Martin, I will pass the information on.
A very productive evening at my local lighthouse with a constant stream of both Scopoli’s and Balearic shearwaters all making for Cabrera. Numbers were in the hundreds as opposed to the thousands that are seen earlier in the season. I have been watching there nearly every evening this year but haven’t yet seen a Storm Petrel. They are very difficult to see from the coast although I know Pep and Maties saw some earlier this year from Porto Colom. In all my years of watching from Porto Petro, I have only ever seen one. I have seen lots feeding out at sea however, about mid-way to Ibiza. Mike
 
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