A pair of northern jewels

I had the chance of twitching a very rare bird in my LP, Zolina reservoir, the last month of december, thanks to my mate Raul that had the luck of discovering a pair of grey Phalaropus in the northern shore.

This is a very rare record in the county and the last time that they were seen here was twelve years ago due to a northern gale that brought many marine birds inland.

I managed to get a few decent pics with one of the birds that behaved quite tamely with my presence (I kept always a security distance to not disturb the shorebird).

 "Curiously"  they didn't get on well with each other, and in three ocassions one of the birds mobbed the other frantically. 

Swimming between the weeds

             A valuable record shot of two birds. 

 

          The first time that I see one                                 walking. 

Season opening....

 Hi there!

My first year blog entry was delaing too much, so with the excuse of the Worldshorebirdsurvey here comes what I saw this sunday in my third oficial counting of the year (there is a marked schedule that every participant must follow in their choosen sites).

In a very cold and windy afteernoon I managed to observe a nice migratory group of common redshanks in the southern dich, meanwile theree little ringed plovers were lingering in the northern shore, to far to take a decent pic.

Things seem to start activating in this forthcoming prenuptial season that I will try to keep one eye as much as I can....

(so far a few lapwings and two snipes were my shorebird records in my local patch this year/winter. I have known that a dunlin and a few avocets were detected this weekend, but I was unable to twitch them.... 

Nice migratory flock of wary and nervous birds. 

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