The latest escapade with my camera,
a few day in not so sunny Spain with a group made up largely of people from SBBO,15 in all led by Peter Roberts and Ken Chapman ably assisted by Ian Buckley.
Most of us flew from Gatwick to Barcelona,then having found our way out of the maze that is Barcelona airport car hire,drove south to St Carles de la Rapita the main town of the Ebro Delta.
Our lodgings for the next three nights was the very nice Miami Mar Hotel
THE MIAMI HOTEL.
After checking in and inspecting the facilities we headed to the harbour to check out the Audouins Gulls,there were quite a few to be seen but a lot more Yellow Legged Gulls than I remember from my previous visit.
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| AUDOUINS GULL |
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| AUDOUINS GULL with ring BNTU |
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| AUDOUINS ON THE LIGHT. |
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| AG PORTRAIT |
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AG PORTRAIT
The next morning after breakfast we set off to explore the Delta
THE EBRO DELTA |
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| YELLOW WAGTAIL[IBERIAE] |
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PURPLE HERON
GREAT FLAMINGOES
SLENDER BILLED GULL
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| 5 SLENDER BILLED GULLS[taken through the mini bus window] |
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| 4 SLENDER BILLED GULLS |
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| KENTISH PLOVER |
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| KENTISH PLOVER |
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| KP Ready for take off. |
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BLACK WINGED STILT
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BONELLIS WARBLER{Western]
SPOTLESS STARLING
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IBERIAN YELLOW WAGTAIL
There now follows a sequence of Whiskered Tern pics |
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| That's the last of the Whiskered Terns for now. |
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| PIED FLYCATCHER |
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| Apologies for this appalling photo of Little Bittern,but I flushed it out of a roadside culvert by accident,not sure who was more surprised,but it was my first ever LB . |
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| SQUACCO HERON |
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| GLOSSY IBIS |
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GREAT REED WARBLER
At the next viewing platform this splendid CASPIAN TERN showed very well. |
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| CASPIAN TERN |
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| CASPIAN TERN |
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| CASPIAN TERN |
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| BLACK WINGED STILT |
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| BWS |
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| THE RETERN OF THE-CASPIAN TERN |
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| SORRY BUT WE DON`T SEE THESE VERY OFTEN |
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| BIG BILL |
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The COMMON TERN below was also feeding in the same lake-
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On the way back to the hotel we stopped off briefly at the harbour.
YELLOW LEGGED GULL The Mediterranean equivalent of our Herring Gull
This one appears to have no left foot
ONE FINAL AUDOUINS GULL in a better light.
THE HOTEL HAD A DEFINITE NAUTICAL THEME
THE GOLDEN LOBSTER
AND GOLDEN CRAB
PAELLA FOR 15
AND WINE FOR 30.GOODNIGHT.
The next day we went in search of Moustached Warbler at PRAT de CABANES Reserve and when Peter eventually found the place there it was waiting for us right next to the car park,singing away like mad,a second lifer for me.
MOUSTACHED WARBLER through the reeds.
ZITTING CISTICOLA
ITCHING CISTICOLA
SCRATCHING CISTICOLA
HAPPY CISTICOLA.
MOUSTACHIOED WARBLER half a dozen were seen but all quite distant
MW SINGING
MOUSTACHED WARBLER
COLLARED PRATINCOLE
CP
CP
SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY
SWALLOWTAIL
A SPANISH BANKSY
CATTLE EGRET
GLOSSY IBIS
A VERY TIRED TURTLR DOVE
HOOPOE
HOOPOE
We are now leaving the Miami and heading North West into the foothills of the Pyrenees,more soon,
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