Just back from a great holiday to Spain staying near La Cala at my Sis’s and Dave’s place, fantastic open sky views from the 4th floor balcony and sunshine more or less every day, with temperatures hovering around 25+.
Lots of places visited both locally and afar, Ronda was a place we have been trying to get to for a while, pure old Spain, superb and very historic.
As you do, the Bins and Camera naturally found their way into the luggage, and with both of us spending most of our time on the balcony, I watched the sky quite a bit.
I recorded some good birds going over, Pallid Swifts and Red Rumped Swallow were daily along with ever present calling Sardinian Warblers below in the bushes.
September 12th will go down as one of the best days, with several flocks of Bee Eaters going over, heading for Gibraltar, totalling 213 birds. Most flocks were high, but some were just above the roof tops giving good views.
One of the best birds, and a balcony tick on the 12th, will go down to a solitary Alpine Swift going through with a number of hirundines, tried to get a photo of this but it disappeared unfortunately.
Raptors recorded were 2 flocks of Honey Buzzards on the 13th, also a Marsh Harrier on that day along with a Booted Eagle. Another balcony tick, however, was a late afternoon Osprey on the 17th,with 2 more Booted Eagles and a distant hovering Short Toed Eagle earlier doing its thing looking for Snakes.
Also added in adjacent trees, again on the 17th were 5 Crossbills.
Bee Eaters - good numbers
Pallid Swift
Birds of note below in the woodland were Crested Tit, Pied Flycatcher and Firecrest.
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