StewB
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Mike and I spent the day in a trip round some of his local sites here in the south. Robins, black redstarts and song thrushes were in great abundance. We bumped into Jason at the Cap (we’ll leave him to tell you what he had seen, suffice to say envy levels were fairly high!). A group of seven siskins headed east along the shore, and groups of chaffinches and meadow pipits looked as though they were about to head off. A blue rock thrush flew behind the lighthouse.
Offshore a couple of adult Audouin’s gulls were mooching around, and there was a fairly continuous movement of groups of Balearic shearwaters heading east.
Nearby, I managed a new bird for my Mallorca list in the shape of mistle thrush (we saw several on the open fields north of the Cap).
Between “the wall” and Passage 5 we had two ospreys flying quite low across the fields, and also saw linnets, booted eagle, ravens and thekla larks.
Mike then took me to Colonia st Jordi for another addition to my Mallorca list - golden plover. There were 176+ on the rocky offshore islands. Grey wagtail and turnstone were nice to see. Nearby there were four stone curlews on the saltpans.
We ended our day at Es Trenc where waders included black-winged stilts, greenshank, dunlins, little stints, spotted redshank, ringed and Kentish plovers. A few flamingo heads and necks were visible in the distance!
Stew
Offshore a couple of adult Audouin’s gulls were mooching around, and there was a fairly continuous movement of groups of Balearic shearwaters heading east.
Nearby, I managed a new bird for my Mallorca list in the shape of mistle thrush (we saw several on the open fields north of the Cap).
Between “the wall” and Passage 5 we had two ospreys flying quite low across the fields, and also saw linnets, booted eagle, ravens and thekla larks.
Mike then took me to Colonia st Jordi for another addition to my Mallorca list - golden plover. There were 176+ on the rocky offshore islands. Grey wagtail and turnstone were nice to see. Nearby there were four stone curlews on the saltpans.
We ended our day at Es Trenc where waders included black-winged stilts, greenshank, dunlins, little stints, spotted redshank, ringed and Kentish plovers. A few flamingo heads and necks were visible in the distance!
Stew