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Message: <blockquote data-quote="john-henry" data-source="post: 909567" data-attributes="member: 15559">Two weeks in Spain… 1st May – 15th May.    (Part 6)13th May…Didn’t wake up until 9.15am and decided on an easy day, feeling a bit weary after the long days and 3000km driven so far. After a leisurely breakfast and a bit more of friendly company I set off for the Val de Gallinera, another of Jules’ little gems. The first roadside stop produced Melodious and Sardinian Warblers, Serin, Blue Rock Thrush and Nightingale. Stopping at the Golden Eagle watch-point it wasn’t long before one was in the air, shortly followed by its’ mate, the two circled around for several minutes before spiralling up and away out of sight, also seen were several Red-billed Chough, Golden Oriole singing, Nightingales, Sardinian Warbler and Serins.The bridge area at Val de Gallinera held the usual Rock Sparrows, Blue Rock Thrush, Hoopoe, several Golden Orioles, more Melodious and Sardinian Warblers, Woodchat Shrike, Short-toed Treecreeper, Iberian Green Woodpecker, Yellow and Grey Wagtails, Turtle Dove, Red-rumped Swallows, Bee-eaters, Crag Martins, Wren, Stonechat etc.After an afternoon siesta in the shade I spent the evening at Pego Marsh, an excellent area with reed-beds, rice fields, wet meadows and some agriculture. As usual at this time of year migrants were getting scarce but 3 Wood Sandpipers, Redshank and a Greenshank were still around plus a few immature Audouin’s and Yellow-legged gulls, Sardinian, Savi’s, Cetti’s, Moustached, Fan-tailed, Reed and Great Reed Warblers, Iberian Yellow Wagtails, White Wagtails, Nightingale, Serins, Crested Larks, Tree and House Sparrows, Woodchat and Southern Grey Shrikes, Purple, Grey and Squacco Herons, Little Bittern, Little and Cattle Egret, White Stork, Purple Gallinule, Red-crested Pochard, Water Rail, Coot, Moorhen, Little Grebes, Kingfisher, Cormorant, Pratincoles, Little Ringed Plovers, Black-winged Stilts, Whiskered Terns etc.14th May…A trip to Cap de San Antonio today to have a look at the Pallid Swift colony here, also if lucky Black Wheatear and Blue Rock Thrush, saw the thrushes OK but no luck with the wheatears, it was blowing a gale which didn’t help. The swift colony was great, scores of birds wheeling around giving excellent views and also to note the difference in calls between them and Common Swift. A pair of Peregrines, Sardinian Warbler and Serin were also seen plus Yellow-legged Gulls and a couple of Cory’s Shearwater offshore.Rest of the day back at Pego Marsh seeing more or less the same birds as yesterday.</blockquote>

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