Rare terns at Chipiona (Cádiz)

15 July, Chipiona Paco Chiclana from Sevilla is one of Andaluciá's leading birders and often covers the area between Chipiona and Sanlúcar de Barrameda, looking particularly at the beaches for terns at this time of year. Last year he found what many of us are convinced was an Elegant Tern (it's with the rarities committee), as well as Lesser Cresteds on a fairly regular basis. Today he posted the following sightings of two interesting tern species seen on the beaches between these two towns on forogiam :4 Roseate Terns on 5 July and 1 Lesser Crested Tern on 11 July.

In addition, Paco keeps a good weather eye open for the Little Swifts that frequent the area and came up with no less than 8 birds on 13 July, which is, I believe, the highest total ever seen and possibly reflects the successful breeding in the area.

His blog at http://elblogdepacochiclana.blogspot.com is always interesting for the Spanish speakers.