THE LUCK OF THE IRISH
This evening I met Jim abd Mary again with the intention of visiting another Eagle Owl site. I decided that we would visit some small areas of water en route to our destination. Two of these areas helped make my evening.The first one produced a Green Sandpiper - Andarrios Grande which we identified after a lengthy discussion but it was not a Greenshank. On our second area Mary spotted a tern on a buoy and once we set the scope up Jim identified it as Whiskered Tern - Fumarel Cariblanco. We watched it for several minutes and then we saw it fly and presumeably take insects from the surface of the water. It was wonderful to see it in action. We had many other sightings and these included Little Ringed Plover - Chorlitejo Chico, Red-crested Pochard - Pato Colorado and Little Grebe - Zampullin Comun in breeding plumage.
Patience to see the Eagle Owl - Buho Real was rewarded when it flew and perched. Mary and Jim were delighed again. This is always a good site for raptors and our identification skills were tested when two large birds flew. We cannot say for sure but we believe that they were Golden Eagles -Aguila Real.
We seem to have had a land-fall of the Common Cuckoos because they were calling every time that we stopped. Another great evening spent doing what is good.