Majorca, 4th and 5th, May, 2012

Day 6  and 7

We started our day at 07.00 hours as usual on location at s'Albufera Reserve, the power station entrance track.

Great Reed Warblers, 10 +, heard constantly, very brief sightings
Fan-tailed Warbler
Glossy Ibis
Great crested grebe,
Marsh Harrier, 2
Red-knobbed Coot
Cattle Egret

Fan-tailed Warbler

Fan-tailed Warbler

Marsh Harrier

                         Marsh Harrier

Red-knobbed Coot

Red-knobbed Coot

Cattle Egret

11.30 hours, change of location, we  head for Formenter, back up the mountain road, this time not going as far as the lighthouse. We miss out some view points, people and cars, but stop first at a refuge / small farm, orchard surrounded by the usual stone wall, gives excellent views of must be recent arrival migrants.

Pied Flycatcher
Spotted Flycatcher
Common Redstart

Pied Flycatcher


We move on to a small parking place, within a mile view of the lighthouse peninsular, 400 feet cliffs, (that's a guess estimate), we go to our favoured positions, absolutely excellent place

Eleonora's Falcon, 5+
Raven, 2
Peregrine, 2

Eleonora's Falcon

17.00 hours, back now at Albufreta, again the light is perfect.

I go for a look first at the Kentish Plover on the shoreline, again with 1 Sanderling
Osprey, 2, 1 very close, I miss the photo

Kentish Plover

Then I moved back to the same position as yesterday and waited

Spotted Flycatcher

Stone-curlew, 2

Spotted Flycatcher

                         Spotted Flycatcher

Stone-curlew

Sun is getting low,

Bee-eater, 15, flew over

a move to near water gives another photo opportunity of a Black-winged Stilt, (probably 1 of 100+ seen on this trip

                         Black-winged Stilt

Ruddy Shellduck, 2, distant but good view
Shag,  is added to the list

21.00 hours, seeing the Scops Owls and listening to Stone-curlew and catch up chat with the holiday birders.

Today I added to my seen list

**ELEONORA'S FALCON

Great Reed Warbler

Fantail Warbler

Ruddy Shellduck

Shag

Great Crested Grebe

Bee-eater

Totals update

Today                                         Seen so far             Totals to date

7 Birds to add to the list seen             91                     TOTAL SEEN, 6 days  98 species

5  Species photographed                   34                     TOTAL SPECIES PHOTOS, 6 days  39 species

 

** 1  New bird species for me            7                      TOTAL NEW BIRDS for me, 6 days  8 species

Day 7, FINAL DAY.

The sky is cloudy, the light is 'not good', it stays that way all day so no photography !

We started our day at 07.00 hours as usual on location at s'Albufera Reserve, we noted

Stone-curlew, 8

Night Heron

Marble Duck, again distant

Squacco Hern

nothing to add to our list,

we move up for another visit to the Bouquer Valley,

from the lower views over the orchard we see a distant

Roller

I continued for a walk up the valley on my own, M.S. wandered off his own ways !  Off note, 2 Blue Rock Thrush,

17.00 hours, the grey sky had been with us all day ! We headed off to Palma for our flight home to Gatwick.

7 DAY TOTALS

Today                                         Seen so far             Totals to date

1  Birds to add to the list seen            98                     TOTAL SEEN, 7 days  99 species

0  Species photographed                   39                     TOTAL SPECIES PHOTOS, 7 days  39 species

 

** 1  New bird species for me            7                      TOTAL NEW BIRDS for me, 7 days  8 species