SPANISH APARTMENT BIRD SIGHTINGS
April 1st 2016
Blue Skies, warm and little wind.
Alcaidesa Ridge
1 Tawny Pipit
1 Woodchat Shrike
2 Short-toed Eagles
100 Barn Swallow
6 Red-rumped Swallow
12 House Martin
30 Stonechat
April 2nd 2016
Blue skies, 20 degrees, Winds E 10-15 mph, Cool Air
Balcony and River Walk
2 Wryneck
15 Common Waxbill
1 Purple Heron
3 Sanderling
1 Kentish Plover
4 Common Sandpiper
2 Little Ringed Plover
10 Sardinian Warbler
15 Nightingale
4 Common Swift
2 Red-rumped Swallow
2 Short-toed Trecreeper
1 Willow Warbler
30 + Blackcap
6 Gannet
8 Sandwich Tern
Secret Plain and Castella
22 Tree Pipit
6 Woodlark
Cuckoo
8 Woodchat
1 Hoopoe
6 Bee-Eater
18 Booted Eagle
2 Short-toed Eagle
4 Common Buzzard
6 Crag Martin
14 Lesser Kestrel
3 Spanish Festoon Butterfly
2 Monarch Butterfly
Palmones Estuary
1 Greater Flamingo
1 Whimbrel
1 Greenshank
8 Grey Plover
10 Redshank
2 Kentish Plover
2 Dunlin
April 3rd 2016
Sun and Cloud with Shower mid-afternoon Winds WNW 20mph
Tarifa
250+ Black Kite
1 Montagu’s Harrier
1 Sparrowhawk
52 Booted Eagle
90 Griffon Vulture
60+ Bee-Eater
2 Raven
La Janda + Ojen Valley
(rain shower brought down hundreds of Bee-Eaters and migrating Raptors)
600+ Bee-Eater
15 Short-Toed Eagle
8 Montagu’s Harrier (inc. 1m Melanistic)
2f Hen Harrier
16 Marsh Harrier
22 Black Kite
65+ Booted Eagle
10 Lesser Kestral
70 Griffon Vulture
2 Black-eared Wheatear
1 Northern Wheatear
2 Whinchat
4 Common Whitethroat
1 Melodious Warbler
250 White Stork
6 Spoonbill
48 Glossy Ibis
3 Purple Gallinule
40+ Calandra Lark
380 Common Swift
250+ Pallid Swift
150 House Martin
300 Barn Swallow
60+ Sand Martin
4 Red-rumped Swallow
10 Iberian Yellow Wagtail
2 Eurasian Reed Warbler
1 Wood Sandpiper
1 Green Sandpiper
1 Firecrest
2 Short-toed Treecreeper
Palmones Estuary
9 Gull-billed Tern
32 Avocet
1 Kentish Plover
6 Dunlin
Sotogrande Reserve
4 LR Plover
1 Snipe
April 4th 2016
Overcast, Rain showers, wind WNW 20-30mph
Balcony
1st w FRANKLIN’S GULL (on beach near main gull flock for 5 mins late afternoon – presumed same bird from Malaga previous week)
1 Osprey
1 Whimbrel
7 Gannet
1 Avocet
4 Purple Heron (in off sea)
1 Oystercatcher
3 Lesser Black-backed Gull
2 Sandwich Tern
250 Yellow-legged Gull
2 Barn Swallow
April 5th 2016
Dry, long sunny spells, wind W 25mph
Balcony
4 Whiskered Terns
3 Sandwich Terns
2 Eurasian Spoonbill
1 Osprey
2 Common Buzzard
3 Sanderling
1 Kentish Plover
15 Gannet
Tarifa
180 Black Kite
110 Booted Eagle
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Montagu’s Harrier
1 Common Buzzard
160 Griffon Vulture
1 Osprey
2 Lesser Kestrel
2 Common Bulbul
3 Thekla Lark
6 Woodchat Shrike
18 Bee-Eater
2 Black-eared Wheatear
2 Cory’s Shearwater
Palmones
2 Little Tern
4 Whiskered Ten
5 Sandwich Tern
3 Whimbrel
April 6th 2016
Dry sunny warm, Wind 15-20mph W
Sotogrande
Little Bittern 1m
1 Purple Gallinule
Laguna De Medina
3 Great Reed Warbler
1 Sedge Warbler
1 Willow Warbler
8 Nightingale
Seville South Marshes to Bonanza
1 Penduline Tit
3 Great White Egret
120 Flamingo
70+ Eurasian Spoonbill
12 Night Heron
1 Squacco Heron
8 Purple Heron
2 Garganey
1 Savi’s Warbler
2 Spanish Sparrow
3 Lesser Short-toed Lark
1 Short-toed Lark
2 Western Subalpine Warbler
20 Red-crested Pochard
30 Whiskered Tern
12 Gull-billed Tern
15 Spotted Redshank
3 Wood Sandpiper
3 Reed Warbler
15 Collared Pratincole
Bonanza Lake and Salinas
350 Curlew Sandpiper
400 Avocet
30 Little Stint
30 Sanderling
300 Dunlin
2 Whimbrel
1 Caspian Tern
500 Greater Flamingo
60 Kentish Plover
6 White-headed Duck
2 Squacco Heron
130 Slender-billed Gull
2 Hoopoe
Chipiona
1 Little Swift
40 Common Swift
April 7th 2016
Dry, warm, sunny Winds W -SW 10-15mph
Balcony / River
1 Audoins Gull
1 Purple Heron
1 Kingfisher
5 Sanderling
1 Redshank
1 Common Sandpiper
Tarifa Sea-watching
9 Great Skua
1 Pomarine Skua
1 Lanner Falcon (S to Morocco)
22 Glossy Ibis
2 Short-Toed Eagle
7 Booted Eagle
25 Black Kite
2 Black-eared Wheatear
2 Tawny Pipit
Barbate Marshes
3 Stone Curlew
14 Bald Ibis
2 Calandra Lark
3 Tawny Pipit
1 Tree pipit
18 Meadow Pipit
2 Greater Short-toed Lark
46 Collared Pratincole
2 Little Stint
35 Curlew Sandpiper
120 Dunlin
6 Audoin’s Gull
1 Provencal Hairstreak
April 8th 2016
Hot, sunny, blue skies, winds SW 15-20mph
Balcony and River
2 Spoonbill
1 Audoin’s Gull
1 Collared Pratincole
16 Avocet
16 Black-winged Stilt
1 Greenshank
1 Redshank
5 Sanderling
1 LR Plover
2 Ringed Plover
1 Green Sandpiper
2 Common Sandpiper
1 Booted Eagle
1 Wryneck
28 European Bee-Eater
6 Red-rumped Swallow
9 Nightingale
5 Sardinian Warbler
1 Northern Wheatear
12 Serin
6 Blackcap
4 Cetti’s Warbler
60 Common Swift
