A good may day.

Saludos camperos!

Here is a small chronicle of a nice birding morning that I had in mid spring. 

I was lucky enough to see some waders because in migration period the same area can be completely without a single bird.

Common sandpiper.

Only saw a pair of them that were lingering around some water ponds created by the recent rainfall.

Bar tailed godwit.

Very scarce bird inland. It keept feeding the whole time that I stayed in observation.

A solitary black winged stilt. They breed here.

The most numerous species that morning, common redshanks and black headed gulls.

The mild tempered spring hasn't entered yet and the surrounding snowy mountains are present in the horizon.

The only avocet that I saw mobbed by a BHG.

Very elegant wader that is not normally seen alone.

A prenuptial ruff with its exquisite feathers.

The bird star of the morning ,a spring feathered knot!!

It was the only one I saw.

Is always a hard bird to encounter inland. Those ricefields are one of the best spots in Navarra to do so.

A group of ruffs  "landing" in one of the different rice parcels.

Short stop and change of site. I saw a ringed bird buy I was unable of reading the color codes.

Thanks for reading and have a nice day!!!

Picture date;130518 

Site;Arguedas ricefields.Navarra/Spain

And before leaving, let me recomend you an extraordinary brand of ecological rices (and other crops) that are harvested in the area were those waders find protection.

If those products are not consumed, it will not be long before this place becomes a "desert" of corn plants and a place without value  for waders.

Some waders in Deltebre

Saludos camperos.

Last summer I took some spare time without my family while I was on vacation with them close to the Deltebre narural area to spend some hours birdwatching.

In general I could't find many waders due to the time of the year,mid of july, were most of them are still in their reproductive areas.

Young BWS inthe recently flooded rice field.

Solitary Oystercatcher in the tidal mudflats. Always a scarce bird in the area.

Common redshanks,kentish plovers and a turnstone that I didn't expect to see around at this time of the year  around here. Probably it was back in its southern migration after not having a succesfull breading seasson.

One of the gems that breeds in the delta. Always a vulnerable bird if the colony sites are not respected by people that sometimes go with their untied dogs close to the dunes.

Youn pranticole in the beache's sand.

A pair of oystercatchers in the shoreline.

Those pictures were taken in july of 2018.

Thanks for reading the blog. Have a nice day!