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.