StewB
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After we suffered a delayed flight from Stansted and an early hours arrival, I had the pleasure of being taken to the Cap by Mike M. We had about 3 hours from around 11am (not Mike’s usual early start!) in the company of a few local birders.
A movement of booted eagles was most notable, with a personal total of 56 birds including one group of 29 together. Quite a few red kites were around, but the concensus seemed to be that these were mostly local birds. Three peregrines and two Eleanora’s went through but my highlight was adding hobby to my Mallorca list.
A few swallows and sand martins went through, and songthrush, redstart and robins (lots calling) were presumably arrivals. We saw a couple of plain tigers moving along too.
A vagrant emperor dragonfly appeared along the road in front of us, and when we followed it up there was a second over the vegetation behind the wall. These were the third and fourth I’ve seen in my visits this year, so clearly there must have been a significant influx of these insects.
A Hermann’s tortoise was in the roadside vegetation.
All in all a great three hours in great company (even though the Spanish banter was going straight over my head!).
Stew
A movement of booted eagles was most notable, with a personal total of 56 birds including one group of 29 together. Quite a few red kites were around, but the concensus seemed to be that these were mostly local birds. Three peregrines and two Eleanora’s went through but my highlight was adding hobby to my Mallorca list.
A few swallows and sand martins went through, and songthrush, redstart and robins (lots calling) were presumably arrivals. We saw a couple of plain tigers moving along too.
A vagrant emperor dragonfly appeared along the road in front of us, and when we followed it up there was a second over the vegetation behind the wall. These were the third and fourth I’ve seen in my visits this year, so clearly there must have been a significant influx of these insects.
A Hermann’s tortoise was in the roadside vegetation.
All in all a great three hours in great company (even though the Spanish banter was going straight over my head!).
Stew
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