Birding moment of the day was a Kingfisher

 My friend Trevor is visiting Spain for a week or so, he'd heard that the Great Spotted Eagle has arrived back at the El Hondo area, so we set off in search of the Spotted Eagle.

Well we didn't connect with the Eagle but had a nice morning birding,



Yellow Wagtail

 highlights were
 

Great White Egret

Osprey

Booted Eagles
Peregrine Falcon

Kestrel
 

Lots of Marsh Harriers

80 Great-crested Grebe

10 Yellow Wagtails

Little Owl

Song Thrush
  

We came across a flooded field which had a few birds on it


Glossy Ibis
 

Green Sandpipers

Wood Sandpipers

Little Stints

6 Ruff 

little ringed Plover

Blue Throat 

Sky Lark 

Black Cap

Sky Lark
 

Lots of Meadow and Water Pipits, White Wagtails and Black Redstarts

I mentioned that there were lots of Kingfishers around and new of a place that was visited on a regular basis, and the moment of the day was the arrival of the Kingfisher, which sat less 12ft from me it was very active and returned several times

have a good day


cheers BT

The Farmers have been out Irrigating the Fields

Today with some rain forecast and with good mate Mark Etheridge we thought it is a good idea to have a quick look around just in case something good dropped in.

Meadow Pipit

Well, nothing mega popped out, but we did get to see a few birds. The farmers have been out irrigating the fields, and so there was plenty of birds to check out on our journey around.

With the fields flooded it attracted many different birds, best bird got away from us, as we were both concentrating on photographing a vey close Green Sandpiper, when Mark said what's "this" I new what it was but couldn't get my words out. It was a male Hen Harrier it drifted across the field in front of us and kept on going as I kept blabbering no sense words, in my excitement of a very good bird for our local area.

Green Sandpiper

 Here's a shortlist of some birds seen

Osprey very distant

Great White Egrets

10+ Wood Sandpiper

20+ Marsh Harriers

Marsh Harrier

A few Booted Eagles

600 + Glossy Ibis

Lots of Cattle Egret

Little Ringed Plovers

Ringed Plovers

Ruff

kestrel

Little Stint

26 Lapwing

kestrels

Kingfisher

Yellow Wagtail

Cettis Warbler

A field full of Sky Larks

Hoopoe

Plenty of common birds like Black Redstarts and Water and Meadow Pipits  and so on. 100s of White Wagtails in every flooded field and good numbers of Gold Finch and Linnet.

Wood Sandpiper

I've not listed every species seen but included the big counts and birds of interest

have fun
cheers BT

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Hi there everybody

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Large scale night poaching of migratory birds

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Football Wales automatically through Euros

After our recent departure from the rugby world cup and only losing by 3 points in the last 4 minutes. To the eventual winner South Africa. I am very pleased to a report that Wales football are through automatically for the finals of the football European cup we may not win, but we are only a small team there's only 3 million in our team wales

Happy days

No bins bird club reunion

Happy to say the NBBC has been reunited, John, Mark, and myself

Male Black Redstart

And so this morning we followed our normal route around our local area setting out before 8 o'clock and picking up Mark Etheridge on the way.

 Water pipit

 To cut to the quick it was a really quite a good days birding morning. some good number of birds. lots of banter and quite a few laughs about the Rugby, Brexit, Johnson calling Jeremy Corbyn a biblical onanism ( w##ker)

 And some serious chat about climate change and plastic,  its something we can't keep ignoring,  I think it means massive changes for us all.

Little owl

Nothing mega to report bird-wise. Mostly what you would expect to see now the winter birds have arrived.

Kingfisher

 we've been trying hard to find a rarity for our area, nothing as yet, but we're going to keep on trying, see the link below of species seen and review of yesterday's birding.

On JE great blog and good source of info

johnedwards-je.blogspot.com

Booted Eagle

Female Black Redstart

Have a good day

cheers BT