San Pedro salinas
Weather: Sky clear but hazy, wind SE F1, temp. 16ºC.
10:15 – 11:30.
I went over
to the Salinas
(saltpans) at San Pedro for a change of scenery, and also to see if any of the
migrants that normally occur there had arrived yet. There were 3 Sand Martins flying about and 4
Ruff and a couple of Little Stints on one of the lagoons, and numbers of
Slender-billed Gulls (which breed here) seemed to be building up, but apart
from that things were pretty quiet.
Species seen
Sand
Martin (Riparia riparia)
Little
Stint (Calidris minuta)
Turnstone
(Arenaria interpres)
Water
Pipit (Anthus spinoletta)
Reed
Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus)
Black
Tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Ruff
(Philomachus pugnax)
Black-necked
Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis)
Greater
Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)
Chiffchaff
(Phylloscopus collybita)
Little
Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Avocet
(Recurvirostra avosetta)
Black-winged
Stilt (Himanoptus himanoptus)
Redshank
(Tringa tetanus)
Spotted
Redshank (Tringa erythropus)
Common
Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
Shelduck
(Tadorna tadorna)
Slender-billed
Gull (Larus genei)
Yellow
Legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
Sardinian
Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala)
Serin
(Serinus serinus)
Black
Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)
White
Wagtail (Motacilla alba alba)
Cormorant
(Phalacrocorax carbo)
House
Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Calblanque, Los
Belones (ringing)
Weather: Sky 3-4/8 cloud, wind SW F3, temp. 16-12ºC.
17:00 – 21:00.
This was
the day that a birdringing campaign, organized by ANSE (Asociación de
Naturalistas del
SurEste) was going to start, Hopefully this
will run through on a weekly basis until the end of May. I went down to the ringing area at 5pm, to
find that the nets were already being set.
The first evenings capture was not numerous, but hopefully the first
bird caught and ringed (a Hoopoe) is the sign of things to come.
Species seen
Stone
Curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus)
Kestrel
(Falco tinnunculus)
Robin
(Erithacus rubecula) - ringed
Long-tailed
Tit (Aegithalus caudatus) - ringed
Serin
(Serinus serinus) - ringed
Greenfinch
(Carduelis chloris) - ringed
Sardinian
Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala) -
ringed
Hoopoe
(Upupa epops) - ringed
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