Guadalhorce ponds today; Red-footed Falcons at Tahivilla (Cádiz).

Yesterday evening, Angel García told me of the 17 Slender-billed Gulls that he and Antonio Toro had been watching down at the ponds and he sent me three photos (one of them attached, thanks Angel!). I was going to go down this morning and duly did so, basically to count waders although I wasn't expecting great things as the migration really is tailing off now. Surprisingly, there were 13 spp., many in penny numbers such as the 3 each of Knot and Redshank (only 3 Redshank!), 2 each of Curlew Sandpiper and Bar-tailed Godwit, the single Grey Plover, and suprisingly no less than 30 Dunlin still. The 17 Slender-bills were still present and very handsome too, but while Angel had read 2 plastic rings last evening, the birds steadfastly kept their butts and legs in the water. The Audouin's Gulls present made a very nice contrast with them, both exceedingly elegant gulls. We'll see how many are left on Sunday!
The only other species of note was a very big female Peregrine, a very robust wench, who slid off without causing any chaos at all and an insomniac Paco Villalobos (who had been there at 07h!) had seen the Osprey.

Arkadiusz Broniarek of radiotracking Spain informs in avesforum of a pair of Red-footed Falcons seen today near Tahivilla (Cádiz), N of Tarifa on the N-340.