30 January 2017

Birding around Gibraltar

For this post we spent several hours, over five days bird watching around Gibraltar.
We are very fortunate to be able to observe sea birds all year round and then within a matter of hours move to the upper rock and botanical gardens. Here we can observe species like...

pipits 
wagtails
thrushes
tits
treecreepers
finches
wrens
martins
swallows
warblers
flycatchers
shrikes
owls
nightjars
hoopoes 

...and also birds of prey.

Some of the above mentioned birds can be seen wintering here and others can be seen when the bird migration returns and it won't be long before it is in full swing and we can't wait.

Here are a few photos we took.

Northern Gannet

Northern Gannet

Hooded crow

Hooded crow

Sardinian warbler

Sardinian warbler

Alpine Accentor

Alpine Accentor

Alpine Accentor

Robin

Alpine Accentor

Northern Gannet

Sandwich Tern

Northern Gannet

Shag

Robin

Chiff Chaff

Blackcap

Blackcap

Sandwich Tern

Corys shearwater

Audouins gull

Blue rock thrush

Barbary partridge

Barbary partridge

Caspian tern

Pallid swift

Mediterranean Gull

Audouins gull

Peregrin falcon

Peregrin falcon

Shag

Cormorant

Northern Gannet

Northern Gannet

Mediterranean Gull

Bye for now see you soon.





29 January 2017

La Janda

A great day spent down at La janda. We started off by spotting two Spanish Imperial Eagles which we observed for over half an hour. Unfortunately they flew away from us so we were unable to take photos, so we moved on.

It was a good day with many species observed. Here are some that we saw... 

great  grey shrike
common crane
buzzards
hen harrier
goldfinch
bonellis eagle
greenfinch
linnet
serin
lapwing
golden plover
purple gallinulegreen shank
kentish plover
Stone curlew
black shouldered kite
spanish imperial eagle
kestrel
common snipe

Here are some of the photos we took.

Great grey shrike

Blue throat 

Blue throat 

Grey heron

Common cranes

Black shouldered kite

Black shouldered kite

Black shouldered kite

Lapwing

Great white egret

Little Owl

Lapwing

Stonecurlew

Stonecurlew

Stonecurlew

Stonecurlew

Stonecurlew

Stonechat

White Wagtail

Red legged partridge

Chaffinch

Meadow pipit

Griffon vulture

Common buzzard

Common buzzard

Common buzzard

Common buzzard

Common buzzard

Common buzzard

Common buzzard

Common buzzard
Thank you all for visiting bye for now.