
16/5/12
16/05 : Cabo de Gata & Rambla Morales
Any complaints about Dave's opening comment should be addressed to him, not to me! As usual, the Arboleas group had a good day out. Those who go to Cabo de Gata should keep theirs eyes peeled for any yellow-billed terns, and in particular one wearing a yellow plastic ring and please inform me and I shall pass on the record. This bird was ringed in Valencia some years since and has been seen there again and also there are records of from the Atlantic coast.
It was a lovely sunny day (sorry to you folks in the
UK!), but there was a bit of a stiff breeze to keep the smaller birds
under cover. We met up with Brian, Mary, Colin, Sandra, Rob and Tony
at the Pujaire cafe, before heading to the first hide overlooking the
Cabo de Gata bird reserve. There were numerous Avocets, smaller numbers
of Black-winged Stilts, Curlew Sandpipers, Dunlins and Kentish Plovers. On
the causeway were three Grey Herons with some Slender-billed and Black-headed Gulls. I made a rough count of the Greater Flamingos (250).
Smaller land birds seen included Hoopoe, House Martin and Zitting
Cisticola.
We made your way to the second hide, stopping
for a quick sea/beach watch first. After only seeing a Cormorant and
an Iberian Yellow Wagtail we yomped to the hide. Here we added Shelduck,
Little Egret and Little Tern. Colin spotted a pair of Southern Grey
Shrikes on a distant shrub. At the public hide, our next stop, we only
added Black-necked Grebe to the list. However it was nice to see
numerous Little Terns on the islands and that the distant ternary
seemed to be full to capacity with Sandwich Terns and Black.headed
Gulls.

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