As we are now in slack season, plus the heat has arrived, so the news is rather thin. Although the birding is rather thin as the majority of migrants have departed for points north, every now and again something unusual turns up.
On Tuesday afternoon (10 June), Antonio Toro, one of our Sunday regulars, logged 108 Audouin's Gulls, not unusual at this time of year but still nice to see, and also 3 Slender-billed Gulls.
On Thursday 12 June, he and Angel García, a digiscoper, had the luck to see 6 Black-tailed Godwits, one in superb breeding plumage according to Antonio, and even luckier, 2 Curlews, these distinctly rare!
Today, Sunday 16 June, I was down there early, just after 08h along with Federico and gradually the numbers swelled, so although there were few birds to see, apart form hordes of juv. Stilts and some little fluff balls of Kentish Plovers, we saw 2 Redshanks, a single Sanderling and 3 Ringed Plovers and 3 small White-headed Ducklings paddled across one of the ponds.
At a personal level, I had two mammal 'firsts' for the Guadalhorce ponds, a weasel and - shades of Wind in the Willows -a water rat, Paco Villalobos seeing another water rat on a different pond.
Federico and I came off as the heat was starting to strike at 11h, both having enjoyed the company of others with plenty of talk, and a comparative telescope session. The Minox 62ED with 30xW that Paco has gives fantastic definition and he prefers it to his Swarovski for portability and by consensus is certainly as good as and possibly better than the Swarovskis and Zeiss zooms - and it is a lot lighter than both of these makes. We would all like to know if anyone has experience of the Minox MD-50 (only having a 15-30x is against it, I believe) and the new mini Nikon 50.
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