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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barred Wobbler" data-source="post: 1640377" data-attributes="member: 69394">No water to speak of at Salgados. There was a reasonable flow to sea through a channel across the beach, and I think that a southerly wind dumping some sand onto the beach could possible block this off and cause the marsh to flood from the back-up, but not knowing the drainage regime of the place I couldn't really say if this is what it needs.  A few spoonbills flew in and roosted with some distant herons. Hares and little owls were to the west of the marsh.I don't think it would have been Colin Key we spoke to. The couple we met met at the Roman ruins on the Alvor estuary were staying at Sagres looking specifically for rarities in the immediate patch. They had already got lucky with rosefinch and Richards pipit on their outings and they were walking the plain area on Thursday morning between Cape St Vincent and Vila do Bispo (which I'd driven across that morning, seeing only larks, buzzards and stonechats) when they kicked up a group of 11 bustards.I guess I just need to try harder.</blockquote>