On Monday 27th April, after collecting an hire car, we went first of all to the salinas at San Pedro de la Pinatar. Dennis Morrison had arrived the previous evening from Edinburgh and so we wanted to make a good start to his week here in Spain. It is so envigorating to find people with a shared interest and before long we were talking to members of an Irish birding group and a Dutch national just to add a more international flavour to the day - never mind the birds who don't give a hoot about international boundaries. Anyway, here is the list for today. There is nothing spectacular included in it, but they were all very beautiful to see. However it would have made the day better if we could have located the Wilson's Phalarope that has been confirmed to be there.
Audouin´s Gull
Yellow-legged Gulls
Black-headed Gulls
Slender-billed Gulls
Sandwich Terns 10
Common Sandpiper
Little Terns
Sardinian Warblers - both male and female.
Barn Swallows
Red-rumpled Swallows
Sand Martin
House Martin
Pallid Swifts
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Linnet
Serin
Woodchat Shrike
Yellow Wagtail
White Wagtail
Blackbird
Kentish Plover
Little-ringed Plover
Female Ruff (reeve)
Avocet
Black-winged Stilts
Flamingo
Little Stints
Shelduck
Mallard
Sanderling
Turnstone
Little Egret
Cattle Egret
Crested Lark
Corn Bunting
Kestrel
House Sparrow
Spotless Starlings
Eurasian Starling
Wood pigeons
Collared Doves
Bee-eaters
Coot
Moorhen
Little Grebe
Squacco Heron
Hoopoe and Monk Parakeets.
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