Three Dunlins

Three Dunlins

Monday 19 September 2016

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.

Saturday 17 September 2016

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