JRP01
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We are from Madrid, so the objective of the trip was to see marine birds and wetland birds we are not able to see where we live.
This was a group trip organized by our local university birding club.
We arrived on the 8th to Playa de langre around 3 pm for a walk. We were lucky to catch some greater white-fronted goose in flight, a common scooter in the sea, and a little gull. The full list of species goes as follows:
8 Greater White-fronted Goose
1 Common Scoter
1 Little Gull
4 Mediterranean Gull
X Yellow-legged Gull
4 Lesser Black-backed Gull
13 Northern Gannet
1 European Shag
X Western Cattle Egret
4 Common Buzzard
2 Peregrine Falcon
5 Eurasian Magpie
7 Carrion Crow
5 Eurasian Skylark
2 Zitting Cisticola
1 Common Chiffchaff
1 Eurasian Wren
3 European Starling
X Spotless Starling
1 Eurasian Blackbird
3 European Robin
2 Black Redstart
X European Stonechat
6 House Sparrow
2 White Wagtail (British)
X Meadow Pipit
X Common Chaffinch
25 European Greenfinch
60 European Goldfinch
At nightfall we headed to our accommodation, a public hostel right in the middle of Santoña marsh.
We started the 9th checking the marsh around 9 am just from the doorstep of the Albergue Juvenil the Santoña, our accommodation.
It resulted in this list:
350 Brant
3 Gadwall
50 Eurasian Wigeon
50 Mallard
2 Common Scoter
2 Red-breasted Merganser
4 Great Crested Grebe
1 Eared Grebe
1 Eurasian Oystercatcher
20 Whimbrel
20 Eurasian Curlew
20 Bar-tailed Godwit
2 Common Sandpiper
2 Common Greenshank
1 Dunlin
15 Yellow-legged Gull
3 Great Black-backed Gull
8 Lesser Black-backed Gull
8 Sandwich Tern
1 Red-throated Loon
6 Common Loon
10 Great Cormorant
2 European Shag
2 Little Egret
1 Gray Heron
9 Eurasian Spoonbill
1 Common Buzzard
1 Carrion Crow
1 Eurasian Blue Tit
1 Common Chiffchaff
5 European Starling
13 Meadow Pipit
5 European Goldfinch
Then we arrive at laredo marina at 10,where 2 razorbills and a caspian gull stole all the attention
Full list:
2 Razorbill
1 Black-headed Gull
1 Caspian Gull -- 1 winter
3 Herring Gull
30 Yellow-legged Gull
5 Great Black-backed Gull
10 Lesser Black-backed Gull
6 Great Cormorant
3 European Shag
1 Eurasian Blackcap
2 White Wagtail
5 Meadow Pipit
Next, we went to la ria de Escalante around 12.
Full list:
14 Graylag Goose
2 Greater White-fronted Goose
40 Eurasian Wigeon
40 Mallard
4 Little Grebe
2 Great Crested Grebe
4 Eared Grebe
10 Northern Lapwing
2 Whimbrel
30 Eurasian Curlew
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Common Greenshank
16 Black-headed Gull
2 Common Loon
2 Little Egret
6 Western Cattle Egret
2 Great Egret
2 Gray Heron
1 Common Buzzard
1 Common Kingfisher
1 Eurasian Jay
2 Carrion Crow
Next we went to Montehano shortly after where we were lucky enough to get pretty close with some common loon and we also spotted some red throated loons.
Full list:
14 Graylag Goose
2 Greater White-fronted Goose
15 Eurasian Wigeon
25 Mallard
8 Great Crested Grebe
6 Eared Grebe
2 Black-bellied Plover
13 Whimbrel
7 Eurasian Curlew
1 Common Sandpiper
2 Common Greenshank
1 Dunlin
1 Mediterranean Gull
5 Lesser Black-backed Gull
1 Sandwich Tern
2 Red-throated Loon
5 Common Loon
4 Great Cormorant
2 Little Egret
1 Common Kingfisher
1 Short-toed Treecreeper
1 Eurasian Blackbird
Then we went to la arenilla to spend the afternoon birdwatching there. It is a good time to note that most of the people in this trip where non birders and this was a great place to teach them how to identify a lot of the waterfowl. The star of the show here was the common eider.
Full list:
X Brant
8 Common Shelduck
3 Gadwall
X Eurasian Wigeon
X Mallard
40 Northern Pintail
1 Common Eider
3 Great Crested Grebe
5 Eared Grebe
15 Eurasian Oystercatcher
60 Whimbrel
5 Eurasian Curlew
1 Bar-tailed Godwit
3 Common Sandpiper
2 Common Greenshank
6 Ruddy Turnstone
20 Dunlin
X Black-headed Gull
X Yellow-legged Gull
4 Great Black-backed Gull
X Lesser Black-backed Gull
1 Red-throated Loon
2 Common Loon
25 Great Cormorant (North Atlantic)
11 Little Egret
X Western Cattle Egret
2 Gray Heron
20 Glossy Ibis
4 Eurasian Spoonbill
2 Carrion Crow
1 Great Tit
2 Common Chiffchaff
2 Common Firecrest
1 Song Thrush
3 White Wagtail
1 White Wagtail (British)
This was our last stop of the day and we went back to our hostel to spend the night.
On the 10th we first briefly checked the marsh from the hostel
full list:
X Brant
4 Mute Swan
3 Gadwall
X Eurasian Wigeon
2 Mallard
2 Northern Pintail
3 Common Scoter
2 Eared Grebe
2 Common Crane
2 Eurasian Oystercatcher
4 Bar-tailed Godwit
2 Common Sandpiper
3 Common Redshank
1 Common Greenshank
X Black-headed Gull
1 Caspian Gull
1 Herring Gull
X Yellow-legged Gull
3 Great Black-backed Gull
X Lesser Black-backed Gull
1 Sandwich Tern
5 Red-throated Loon
3 Common Loon
50 Great Cormorant
2 European Shag
2 Little Egret
15 Western Cattle Egret
1 Gray Heron
1 Eurasian Spoonbill
1 Hen Harrier
2 Common Kingfisher
3 Carrion Crow
1 Black Redstart
3 House Sparrow
4 White Wagtail
Then we shortly arrived at the fishing port in the Conserveras area.
Full list:
5 Mute Swan
1 Mallard
4 Great Crested Grebe
2 Eared Grebe
2 Whimbrel
2 Eurasian Curlew
1 Black-tailed Godwit
4 Common Sandpiper
7 Common Redshank
1 Common Greenshank
3 Black-headed Gull
1 Mediterranean Gull
2 Yellow-legged Gull
5 Lesser Black-backed Gull
1 Sandwich Tern
1 Common Loon
2 European Shag
2 Little Egret
2 Eurasian Spoonbill
1 Common Kingfisher
1 Redwing
1 Common Chaffinch
Then we went to Marisma de Colindres:
40 Black-bellied Plover
15 Common Ringed Plover
17 Whimbrel
9 Eurasian Curlew
2 Common Greenshank
55 Dunlin
6 Lesser Black-backed Gull
2 Little Egret
1 Gray Heron
1 Western Marsh Harrier
3 Eurasian Magpie
1 Great Tit
1 Common Chiffchaff
2 European Starling
1 Spotless Starling
1 Song Thrush
1 European Robin
2 European Stonechat
2 White Wagtail
2 Meadow Pipit
After that we finished our morning, ate and went to la Ria de Treto as our last stop from the day. Here we found a common Murre in the in the water tangled to some fishing line, after a while it washed ashore and we picked it up and left him in a wildlife rehab. It was released back into nature almost a month later. We also saw a couple of greater scaups, those were a lifer for almost everyone in the trip.
5 Common Shelduck
X Eurasian Wigeon
5 Northern Pintail
2 Greater Scaup
6 Great Crested Grebe
2 Eared Grebe
25 Black-bellied Plover
5 Bar-tailed Godwit
10 Black-tailed Godwit
30 Sanderling
300 Dunlin
1 Common Murre
9 Red-throated Loon
4 Common Loon
1 Great Tit
1 Common Chiffchaff
On the 11th we went to noja and didn’t had much luck
Full list:
1 Common Wood-Pigeon
1 Yellow-legged Gull
1 Little Egret
1 Eurasian Magpie
3 Carrion Crow
3 Eurasian Blue Tit
2 Great Tit
3 Common Chiffchaff
1 Cetti's Warbler
3 Song Thrush
2 European Robin
1 European Stonechat
1 White Wagtail
3 Meadow Pipit
8 Common Chaffinch
15 European Goldfinch
2 Cirl Bunting
We quickly moved to Noja’s beach, were we saw even less birds:
1 Ruddy Turnstone
X Black-headed Gull
X Yellow-legged Gull
1 Great Black-backed Gull
2 Lesser Black-backed Gull
1 Sandwich Tern
1 Red-throated Loon
4 Great Cormorant
5 European Shag
We choose again to change location and we went to Marismas de Victoria. We had more luck here:
15 Gadwall
20 Mallard
60 Green-winged Teal
3 Little Grebe
3 Common Wood-Pigeon
10 Eurasian Coot
1 Black-headed Gull
4 Little Egret
13 Western Cattle Egret
2 Gray Heron
2 Common Buzzard
1 Common Kingfisher
1 Eurasian Jay
2 Carrion Crow
1 Great Tit
7 Zitting Cisticola
3 Common Chiffchaff
1 Eurasian Wren
2 European Starling
2 Song Thrush
1 Eurasian Blackbird
1 European Robin
1 European Stonechat
1 Dunnock
After a while here we moved to our last stop for the trip Casa the las Mareas, excellent for waterfowl.
5 Northern Shoveler
30 Gadwall
20 Mallard
15 Green-winged Teal
40 Common Pochard
1 Common Pochard x Ferruginous Duck (hybrid)
25 Tufted Duck
7 Little Grebe
50 Eurasian Coot
5 Black-headed Gull
1 Mediterranean Gull
2 Herring Gull
25 Yellow-legged Gull
2 Great Cormorant
1 Little Egret
2 Gray Heron
1 Red Kite
1 Common Chiffchaff
1 Song Thrush
The trip was organized in individual cars, it had around 20 participants and gas plus accommodation was around 60 euros per person.
Half of the people in that trip weren’t birders, they knew almost nothing about birds and picked up the hobby from there. This was in general a great trip.
Also, English is not my first language so sorry for any mistakes.
Thank you for reading.
This was a group trip organized by our local university birding club.
We arrived on the 8th to Playa de langre around 3 pm for a walk. We were lucky to catch some greater white-fronted goose in flight, a common scooter in the sea, and a little gull. The full list of species goes as follows:
8 Greater White-fronted Goose
1 Common Scoter
1 Little Gull
4 Mediterranean Gull
X Yellow-legged Gull
4 Lesser Black-backed Gull
13 Northern Gannet
1 European Shag
X Western Cattle Egret
4 Common Buzzard
2 Peregrine Falcon
5 Eurasian Magpie
7 Carrion Crow
5 Eurasian Skylark
2 Zitting Cisticola
1 Common Chiffchaff
1 Eurasian Wren
3 European Starling
X Spotless Starling
1 Eurasian Blackbird
3 European Robin
2 Black Redstart
X European Stonechat
6 House Sparrow
2 White Wagtail (British)
X Meadow Pipit
X Common Chaffinch
25 European Greenfinch
60 European Goldfinch
At nightfall we headed to our accommodation, a public hostel right in the middle of Santoña marsh.
We started the 9th checking the marsh around 9 am just from the doorstep of the Albergue Juvenil the Santoña, our accommodation.
It resulted in this list:
350 Brant
3 Gadwall
50 Eurasian Wigeon
50 Mallard
2 Common Scoter
2 Red-breasted Merganser
4 Great Crested Grebe
1 Eared Grebe
1 Eurasian Oystercatcher
20 Whimbrel
20 Eurasian Curlew
20 Bar-tailed Godwit
2 Common Sandpiper
2 Common Greenshank
1 Dunlin
15 Yellow-legged Gull
3 Great Black-backed Gull
8 Lesser Black-backed Gull
8 Sandwich Tern
1 Red-throated Loon
6 Common Loon
10 Great Cormorant
2 European Shag
2 Little Egret
1 Gray Heron
9 Eurasian Spoonbill
1 Common Buzzard
1 Carrion Crow
1 Eurasian Blue Tit
1 Common Chiffchaff
5 European Starling
13 Meadow Pipit
5 European Goldfinch
Then we arrive at laredo marina at 10,where 2 razorbills and a caspian gull stole all the attention
Full list:
2 Razorbill
1 Black-headed Gull
1 Caspian Gull -- 1 winter
3 Herring Gull
30 Yellow-legged Gull
5 Great Black-backed Gull
10 Lesser Black-backed Gull
6 Great Cormorant
3 European Shag
1 Eurasian Blackcap
2 White Wagtail
5 Meadow Pipit
Next, we went to la ria de Escalante around 12.
Full list:
14 Graylag Goose
2 Greater White-fronted Goose
40 Eurasian Wigeon
40 Mallard
4 Little Grebe
2 Great Crested Grebe
4 Eared Grebe
10 Northern Lapwing
2 Whimbrel
30 Eurasian Curlew
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Common Greenshank
16 Black-headed Gull
2 Common Loon
2 Little Egret
6 Western Cattle Egret
2 Great Egret
2 Gray Heron
1 Common Buzzard
1 Common Kingfisher
1 Eurasian Jay
2 Carrion Crow
Next we went to Montehano shortly after where we were lucky enough to get pretty close with some common loon and we also spotted some red throated loons.
Full list:
14 Graylag Goose
2 Greater White-fronted Goose
15 Eurasian Wigeon
25 Mallard
8 Great Crested Grebe
6 Eared Grebe
2 Black-bellied Plover
13 Whimbrel
7 Eurasian Curlew
1 Common Sandpiper
2 Common Greenshank
1 Dunlin
1 Mediterranean Gull
5 Lesser Black-backed Gull
1 Sandwich Tern
2 Red-throated Loon
5 Common Loon
4 Great Cormorant
2 Little Egret
1 Common Kingfisher
1 Short-toed Treecreeper
1 Eurasian Blackbird
Then we went to la arenilla to spend the afternoon birdwatching there. It is a good time to note that most of the people in this trip where non birders and this was a great place to teach them how to identify a lot of the waterfowl. The star of the show here was the common eider.
Full list:
X Brant
8 Common Shelduck
3 Gadwall
X Eurasian Wigeon
X Mallard
40 Northern Pintail
1 Common Eider
3 Great Crested Grebe
5 Eared Grebe
15 Eurasian Oystercatcher
60 Whimbrel
5 Eurasian Curlew
1 Bar-tailed Godwit
3 Common Sandpiper
2 Common Greenshank
6 Ruddy Turnstone
20 Dunlin
X Black-headed Gull
X Yellow-legged Gull
4 Great Black-backed Gull
X Lesser Black-backed Gull
1 Red-throated Loon
2 Common Loon
25 Great Cormorant (North Atlantic)
11 Little Egret
X Western Cattle Egret
2 Gray Heron
20 Glossy Ibis
4 Eurasian Spoonbill
2 Carrion Crow
1 Great Tit
2 Common Chiffchaff
2 Common Firecrest
1 Song Thrush
3 White Wagtail
1 White Wagtail (British)
This was our last stop of the day and we went back to our hostel to spend the night.
On the 10th we first briefly checked the marsh from the hostel
full list:
X Brant
4 Mute Swan
3 Gadwall
X Eurasian Wigeon
2 Mallard
2 Northern Pintail
3 Common Scoter
2 Eared Grebe
2 Common Crane
2 Eurasian Oystercatcher
4 Bar-tailed Godwit
2 Common Sandpiper
3 Common Redshank
1 Common Greenshank
X Black-headed Gull
1 Caspian Gull
1 Herring Gull
X Yellow-legged Gull
3 Great Black-backed Gull
X Lesser Black-backed Gull
1 Sandwich Tern
5 Red-throated Loon
3 Common Loon
50 Great Cormorant
2 European Shag
2 Little Egret
15 Western Cattle Egret
1 Gray Heron
1 Eurasian Spoonbill
1 Hen Harrier
2 Common Kingfisher
3 Carrion Crow
1 Black Redstart
3 House Sparrow
4 White Wagtail
Then we shortly arrived at the fishing port in the Conserveras area.
Full list:
5 Mute Swan
1 Mallard
4 Great Crested Grebe
2 Eared Grebe
2 Whimbrel
2 Eurasian Curlew
1 Black-tailed Godwit
4 Common Sandpiper
7 Common Redshank
1 Common Greenshank
3 Black-headed Gull
1 Mediterranean Gull
2 Yellow-legged Gull
5 Lesser Black-backed Gull
1 Sandwich Tern
1 Common Loon
2 European Shag
2 Little Egret
2 Eurasian Spoonbill
1 Common Kingfisher
1 Redwing
1 Common Chaffinch
Then we went to Marisma de Colindres:
40 Black-bellied Plover
15 Common Ringed Plover
17 Whimbrel
9 Eurasian Curlew
2 Common Greenshank
55 Dunlin
6 Lesser Black-backed Gull
2 Little Egret
1 Gray Heron
1 Western Marsh Harrier
3 Eurasian Magpie
1 Great Tit
1 Common Chiffchaff
2 European Starling
1 Spotless Starling
1 Song Thrush
1 European Robin
2 European Stonechat
2 White Wagtail
2 Meadow Pipit
After that we finished our morning, ate and went to la Ria de Treto as our last stop from the day. Here we found a common Murre in the in the water tangled to some fishing line, after a while it washed ashore and we picked it up and left him in a wildlife rehab. It was released back into nature almost a month later. We also saw a couple of greater scaups, those were a lifer for almost everyone in the trip.
5 Common Shelduck
X Eurasian Wigeon
5 Northern Pintail
2 Greater Scaup
6 Great Crested Grebe
2 Eared Grebe
25 Black-bellied Plover
5 Bar-tailed Godwit
10 Black-tailed Godwit
30 Sanderling
300 Dunlin
1 Common Murre
9 Red-throated Loon
4 Common Loon
1 Great Tit
1 Common Chiffchaff
On the 11th we went to noja and didn’t had much luck
Full list:
1 Common Wood-Pigeon
1 Yellow-legged Gull
1 Little Egret
1 Eurasian Magpie
3 Carrion Crow
3 Eurasian Blue Tit
2 Great Tit
3 Common Chiffchaff
1 Cetti's Warbler
3 Song Thrush
2 European Robin
1 European Stonechat
1 White Wagtail
3 Meadow Pipit
8 Common Chaffinch
15 European Goldfinch
2 Cirl Bunting
We quickly moved to Noja’s beach, were we saw even less birds:
1 Ruddy Turnstone
X Black-headed Gull
X Yellow-legged Gull
1 Great Black-backed Gull
2 Lesser Black-backed Gull
1 Sandwich Tern
1 Red-throated Loon
4 Great Cormorant
5 European Shag
We choose again to change location and we went to Marismas de Victoria. We had more luck here:
15 Gadwall
20 Mallard
60 Green-winged Teal
3 Little Grebe
3 Common Wood-Pigeon
10 Eurasian Coot
1 Black-headed Gull
4 Little Egret
13 Western Cattle Egret
2 Gray Heron
2 Common Buzzard
1 Common Kingfisher
1 Eurasian Jay
2 Carrion Crow
1 Great Tit
7 Zitting Cisticola
3 Common Chiffchaff
1 Eurasian Wren
2 European Starling
2 Song Thrush
1 Eurasian Blackbird
1 European Robin
1 European Stonechat
1 Dunnock
After a while here we moved to our last stop for the trip Casa the las Mareas, excellent for waterfowl.
5 Northern Shoveler
30 Gadwall
20 Mallard
15 Green-winged Teal
40 Common Pochard
1 Common Pochard x Ferruginous Duck (hybrid)
25 Tufted Duck
7 Little Grebe
50 Eurasian Coot
5 Black-headed Gull
1 Mediterranean Gull
2 Herring Gull
25 Yellow-legged Gull
2 Great Cormorant
1 Little Egret
2 Gray Heron
1 Red Kite
1 Common Chiffchaff
1 Song Thrush
The trip was organized in individual cars, it had around 20 participants and gas plus accommodation was around 60 euros per person.
Half of the people in that trip weren’t birders, they knew almost nothing about birds and picked up the hobby from there. This was in general a great trip.
Also, English is not my first language so sorry for any mistakes.
Thank you for reading.
