Festivities over, an old year ending with a new one sweeping in it must be time to assess what we want to do, what I want to with all due respect to do that which is ‘do-able’.
Put your thoughts in order and get out into that natural world.
And so, two weeks into 2013 a day out with The Costa Blanca Bird Club was planned, meeting at 10am at San Pedro. We were there early for ‘sun-up’ as the members of Torrevieja Digital Camera Club wanted to get their dawn shots. I ambled around to see the early movements of gulls and the like.
With the warmth of the day arriving we were able to watch over thirty Turnstones flicking over the clumps of deposited vegetable matter on the water’s edge. There was one lone Sanderling among them. In the dunes and amongst the bushes, Dartford Warblers popped up and down. We saw Crested Larks, Meadow Pippits, Stonechats, Finches and Sardinian Warblers together with numerous Yellowlegs.
Upon moving back to the car park we saw a lone male Kentish Plover but nothing else of interest although this solitary bird was worth it.
We moved south seeing soaring Booted Eagles, a Marsh Harrier, Kestrels, and with a beautiful male flying above us. On a water deposit there were both Little and Black-necked Grebes but what caught the enthusiasts eyes were four Velvet Scoters. Close by a Ringed Plover searched for food.
We left the main party to return to San Pedro to search for Black-tailed Godwits where they obliged with really close up views. A Redshank fed nearby also. However, what pleased Elaine and Michelle the most was the simple fact that they captured on camera a Kingfisher. The best part being that it was the former’s first ever view of one. This was a good way to end a day out.
I am now on the quest to for Eagle Owls and to finish my first poem of this year
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