The beginning...

Hi there.

Yesterday in a very hot afternoon, I set off for a short walk to check what was going on in my LP in the last day of july as I expected something of  migration movement on the way.

I wasn't wrong and I detected six wader species with the special bonus of the first "peep" of the summer, with a nervous and solitary little stint lingering in the muddy flat east area.

Finally I saw three marsh sandpipers,two very wary ruffs,one bw stilt ,two green sandpipers and  more a dozen common sandpipers by far the most numerous shorebird in Zolina reservoir.

all pics with phone +kowa scope = far away from the resting birds

Tringa glareola

video. Tringa glareola

Harvested summer crop fields around the reservoir.

The solitary and nervous calidris minuta.

video. Calidris minuta

I found a dead Lesser BB gull .

See you in the next one!!

Deltebre july 2020

Hi there!!

Here some pictures of my holidays in Deltebre were I spent a few days in july with my family.

Not to many hours for birding so only a few pics to show.

In this time of the year everything very calm wih no migration in progress .

Sunrise in the bay.

Kentish plover.

One of the jewels in the site with the pranticoles.

I almost missed this avocet among the numerous bh gulls in the ricefields.

I also saw a few common sandpipers and a greensanks/redsanks.

Bw stilts in flying formation.

One of the commonest local breeders.

My son observing the horizon.

See you next year Deltebre!!

A common sandpiper over my house.....

Hello.

Here we continue staying at home with this covid problem that bother us all.

I have continued recording at night to evaluate the night migration that takes place around my house.

This time (other many sessions not) I could record a a common sandpiper, a quite usual wader in the areas and rivers nearby ,so it wasn't really a surprise but of course something to remark in my "home"recording list with a red tick.

Is the third type of wader that I record , before one stone curlew and green sandpiper flew around.

The call at night sounds equal to the one at day time.

Record picture.

Take care you all!!

Stone curlew at night!

Hi there!!

 Last night I had the chance of recording an overflying  stone curlew above my house ,probably in active migration at 04.00 a.m. 

The call line is a little bit "dirty" but with the espectogram fits perfectly with the species.

It has been a very nice discovery and I hope that this won't be the last one this month...!! 

Stone curlew flying (S.E:O)

Nocturnal flight recording

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.