I began yesterday morning at the Cap and 40 minutes later I had seen 1 Yellow legged Gull. So I decided to move on. I stopped off several times as I drove back along the the Cap road and found a few nice birds. I had a superb Mistle Thrush, perched in a tree on the very topmost branch. I missed a photo by 2 seconds. There was also a lovely Thekla Lark perched obligingly on a stone wall. I also found some nice raptors; 2 Red Kite, 1 Black Kite, and 1 pale Booted Eagle.
Next spot was the Es Trenc road. The water was quite deep but I managed to find a few nice waders, Greenshank, Turnstone, Ringed Plover, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint.
At Eddies Track
I was so pleased that I had put my wellies in the car. In places the water was was only 4 inches below the top of them! There were lots of Flamingo, quite spread out, I counted 140. Also; 140 Avocet, 8 Marsh Harrier, 80 Shelduck, 6 Curlew, Black winged Stilt, Cattle and Little Egrets, 2 Grey Heron, White Wagtails, Fan Tailed Warblers. But unfortunately no sign of the Cranes.
I`ve just seen on our Whatsap group that I`m in 5th place in the Big Year
with 178. I`m amazed, I really didn`t think that I would get to be in 5th place, I would have been happy to be halfway up the list. If I do manage to find the Cranes before the end of December that would take me to 179.