bits & pieces to 14 July

Common Pelican en P.N. Alcornocales (Cádiz) An adult bird seen on 19 June and 8 July 2008, in the Barbaterra reservoir (R. Romero en naturand)

13 July, Guadalhorce ponds A brief trip around the ponds in the first hours of the day with some of the domingueros (our Sunday morning birding group). There was not a lot to be seen and Paco and I left by 10h as it was starting to get too hot for comfort, but Patricia, Antonio T. and Antonio M. stayed on - he had to, he's the warden! Water levels are dropping fast and there's going to be little mud for returning waders, of which there was some more evidence in the form of a single Common and Green Sandpipers, and after we'd left Patricia & co. saw 3 Curlew Sandpipers which circled around but didn't stop, Antonio M. also saw a Roller, a rather irregular and scarce species during migration with us.