Dave, American spelling is like Starbuck's coffee, pure rubbish! By the by, it can't recognize recognise either. It was, I think, one W.S. Churchill (who did win a Nobel Prize for literature) who said that Britain and the America were two nations separated by a common language!
I would be interested to hear privately what non Spanish birders would like to see in an English language magazine if the Spanish Ornithological Society decides to go ahead with one.
Bit of a chill in the air as we made our way to Cabo
de Gata. We had 13 members in total including two more willing victims,
Alan and Richard. After our usual coffee at Pujaire we headed for the
first hide. There was a constant stream of Crag Martins but no Barn
Swallows seen today. The Greater Flamingos had virtually departed en
mass. Only 14 seen. And there weren't many waders either. The most
numerous were Avocet (sad reflection of this American website's
spellcheck didn't recognise Avocet and suggested Exocet instead!). Small
numbers of Eurasian Curlews, Knots, Redshanks, Greenshanks, Ringed Plovers,
Grey Plovers and Black-tailed Godwits. There were small flocks of Slender-billed Gulls and some Mallards. Around the vegetation there was an abundance of
Stonechats. Southern Grey Shrikes were spotted on the power lines. A
Kestrel was also noted. Brian had a brief glimpse of a Dartford Warbler
whilst Sardinians were easy to observe. Out to sea we could see Gannets
flying past.
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The beach was devoid of bird life. A solitary
Cormorant was swimming beyond the small breakers. At the second hide we
had a better view of a Dartford but only added Greenfinch and Cattle
Egret to the list before we headed to the public hide. Had a bit more
luck here with a raft of about 20 Black-necked Grebes. Also seen were
Lesser Blackbacked Gulls, Shelducks, Kentish Plovers and Sanderlings. On
the causeway to the right were about a dozen Sandwich Terns and some
Black-winged Stilts.
Brian and Mary went to "do" Rambla de
Morales whilst the rest of us, apart from Dave and Myrtle, headed
towards the lighthouse. Gilly spotted a Black Wheatear. We stopped to
look, only to see two Trumpeter Finches and a Meadow Pipit nearby. By
the lighthouse Val saw her first Blue Rock Thrush, albeit a brown female!
We heard later from the "Morales 2" that they
saw a Common Buzzard, Shoveler, Turnstone, White-headed Duck, Chiffchaff and Cetti's Warbler amongst others.
All in all a reasonably good day with a combined total of 52 species.
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