Nocturnal flight recording.....

Hi there!!

Nowadays with the coronavirus problem around the world, doing  nocturnal bird recording is an interesting option.

The past two nights, I had the chance of recording two green sandpipers in migratory active flight over my house (I live in a block in a seventh flat in Pamplona).

This has been a very nice discovery and I hope that many wader types will fly over my house in the coming prenuptial migratory period.....

As usual, greens, the first ones to move and also the first ones to come back,some even in mid june!!!


Green sandpiper. (clic to audio XENOCANTO)

Green sanpiper feeding in a waterpond

Nice groups coming.....

Hi there!

This week it's has been quite messy with the weather around here, with continuous showers and  very cloudy grey skies, forming a formidable barrier in the nearby Pyrenees mountain range that doesn't permit the migratory birds continue with their journey to the north of Europe. 

This is one of the main reassons to preserve those valuable biotopes!!

In this situation, numerous groups of BT Godwits gathered in Zolina's reservoir, counting more than a hundred (120) (the same two days in Loza's reservoir located 10 km away similar numbers were registered).

In my local patch, a few common redshanks (5),with a dozen dunlins and a solitary ringed plover were lingering between their "long legged" relatives in the northern shore crope fields.

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 Some BTW stunning their feathers before roosting.

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Different species feeding in the wet fields close to the shore.

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A nice group of nine avocets in the northern shore.

(*) the godwits pics are by Raul Pascual

Prenuptial opening....

Good morning!

Yesterday I went to my local patch ,Zolina's reservoir, to check what was going around, since it was a long time ago from my last visit. 

In this occasion, as usual, I didn't have to much time and I decided to place my telescope not very close to the shoreline (also to rerspect the birds resting). 

As soon as I started sweeping with the lens through the north coast, two small silouettes were moving quickly with sort sprints in a muddy patch. I zoomed fast and there they were a total of seven ringed plovers with three dunlins (those were sleeping). 

Those dates are appropiate to observe the first prenuptial birds in their migration journey to their northern breeding territories.

 

VIDEO.

The group of shorebirds.

As usuall calidris and charadrius together.

 

When I was going to retire a group of 23 lapwings landed in the "oystercatchers" peninsula forming a mixed group with various kinds of ducks that were taking a nap with a pair of LBB gulls.