A grey plover with a group

Grey plover with the rest of the shorebirds.

The past 051016 I saw a nice little group of shorebirds in the West side island at Zolina reservoir.

It was a pleasant day with no wind and not to much  sun (good viewing conditions).

In my initial possition I wasn't able to see them, but luckily one of them moved (a great plover) and it made me move to another position...then I discovered the rest of the group having a nap.

They were five great plovers,four dunlins and a grey plover.

This is till the moment the second observation of this bird this year, the other one, was in april and is always a nice one in this area. They appear now and then but almost always solitary individuals.

With some waders for a while....

Saludos!

Yesterday (18sep16) I had a good moment in a confortable afternoon at Zolina reservoir.

I saw eight different shorebird species including two Curlew Sandpipers , one of them juvenile.

This bird has been elusive for me this year during the spring migration (there were two sightings at the site) and I didn't expect to see them yesterday (last year I didn't see any here....)

I will write down the list of birds seen (it was a pitty that I didn't manage to relocate if they were still there three Turnstones seen the day before by Mikel, is a rare vagrant here!!).

List

Ruff 2

Little Stint 1

Dunlin 4

Curlew Sandpiper 2

Common Sandpiper 3

Greenshank 1

Ringed plover 10

Common Snipe 2 

Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea)

  One Ringed plover, two Curlew Sandpiper and one Little stint.

Oystercatcher in Navarra!!

Historic day with my medium son in Zolina!!

This rarity in my province and the first for Zolina Reservoir!!

07/02/2014

 Placing the telescope before observing this treat!!

Haematopus ostralegus

Sanpipers in Pitillas

The 15 of May of 2013 I saw those shorebirds.....in Pitillas.

Wood Sandpiper

Green Sandpiper

Ringed Plover.

Shorebirds in Spring 2014

A few birds of this spring (mis april - mis may).

Whimbrel with Grey plover (300414) in Pitillas

Grey plover with Redshank.

Little stint in Zolina - may 2014

Spotted Redshank (early May Zolina)

Grey plovers - early may - Zolina

Postnupcial at Zolina 2014

The past september of 2014 I managed to see a pair of Little stints with two young Dunlins.

As always a nice variety this year but small numbers.....

Ringed plover with rings!!

I has a very nice morning in Pitillas taht day of may 201.

Many shorebird had entered and I could manage to see a Ringed plover with a ring.

Also very noticeable the strong presence of various Sanderlings (10?).

A group of mixed birds.

Ringed plover and one Dunlin taking their time to land on the muddy flats.

Dotterels in late summer

Here some of the always intriging Dotterels in late summer 2013.

I went with Ricardo Rodriguez and it took us a wile to find them.

We tried some days before but we didn't have luck.

Dotterel (Charadrius morinellus) -  Bardenas - September 2013

Collared pranticole in Deltebre

Here some of my best pics of this wonderfull wader in Deltebre (July 2015)

Collared pranticole (Glareola pranticola)

Shorebird in the arable fields....

This april 2012 is rainning so much that the normaly "dry"  wheatfields are full os water in some areas and the countryside can't absorb more liquid , so it's like a small flood wherever you go......

This makes a perfect chance for shorebird to linder in places were usually is imposible them to feed.

Those are some of the birdies I saw this wet morning