Costa Blanca Bird Club - Thursday 11th September - Day Three
The plan for the day was to find a body of water to see what waders we could see on our way to the N340 and then take the N232 at Vinarós to head inland. This would give us a much different habitat and hopefully a greater selection of birds. However, before we left, there was a Yellow-crowned Night Heron perched with Tree Sparrow close-by. One of the group saw a Cetti's Warbler perched on a low fence.
We did a lot of driving, covered many miles on a day when the temperatures were in mid to high thirties for very little reward. Amongst the pines we did see Long-tailed Tits in flight, a conspicuous Stonechat, and both male and female Pied Flycatchers. On route we had magnificent sightings of two Short-toed Eagles.
We headed to Puçol, booked in at Hotel Alba and then headed for Marjal del Moro. This is an area of reeds, several pools, scrub and alongside the pebble beach. This is better viewed in the morning as the sun will then be over the sea. We did see Turnstones and twenty one Spoonbills flew right over us. Unfortunately the main area of water was 'bone' dry, but this should not be that surprising as we are experiencing a period of least rainfall since 1857.
Our overall list stands at 92 with only seven new species being added for today, but we do have plans for tomorrow.
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