Soil Hill To Ogden Water

Very windy but dry on the Hill From Hades. 4 Meadow Pipit 3 Skylark 1 each 🐦‍⬛ Blackbird & Robin.

Ogden Water was teeming with Dullards 😞. Gull numbers were well down to 3 LBBG 2 Common & c11 BHG. 6 Teal were feeding close to the W shoreline. There may have been 8 but I couldn’t be bothered to backtrack and confirm. A pr Tufted Duck also near the W shoreline.

A Raven called loudly a couple of times. The woods were absolutely throbbing with nothing.

Some Improvement At Ogden Water

The Water levels have risen a lot but there is still room for more H2O.

I got my first Little Grebe in over 4 months up at the top end between Skirden and Ogden Cloughs.

A pr of f/eclipse Teal were close to the W shoreline. Further down a f Goosander was preening and splashing about.

Quite a few Canada Geese were knocking around as were numerous Gulls - both large and small species. The woods were almost completely silent.

No point mentioning Stod Fold nor Mixenden.

Not Much To Post

 

Wednesday 1 October. On way to the airport at Palma I managed 2 Little Egret and a Cattle Egret.

I went to Ogden Water today and wish I hadn’t just 3 Cormorant and the gulls. A few Robins were around.

Best thing about Mixenden were some Pizzas growing from the ground.

Sure is good to be back 😭😠

Poor Birding Porto Colom Again

Monday 29th.

Hoopoe showed well at close quarters. Probable Hooded Crow over calling. Usual gulls.

Tuesday 30th

Final short stroll around Porto Colom. The Common Sandpiper showed twice and a YLG posed at the edge of the hotel pool.

1 Sardinian 2 Blackbird 🐦‍⬛.

Can’t wait to get back home when I can start hating Mallards again and leave the Woodpigeons be.

Photos taken with mobile bone. 

Porto Colom At W/E

Saturday 27th 1 Cettis Warbler ditto Blackbird 4 Sardines 5 Audouins Gull. Roll on Ogden er mebbe not.

Sunday 28th. Walked around the local harbour area and matters improved a bit. Swimming dog flushed a Common Samdpiper. 

Usual gulls seen in small numbers. 3 Blacknirds - black bills noted. 

Came to a jolting stop when I noticed a Hoopoe on the deck about 5 yards away 👍.

One Sardine Warbler close up and 1 Shag over the sea at distance. House Sparrows and loathesome Woodpigeons 😢

PS Eventide approx 1725 hrs 5 Audouins Gull came by to prospect for scraps on edge of hotel grounds and 6 Shags flew over > SW.

Minimal catchup Porto Colom

Thursday 25th Blackcap flew across the path while out shopping in town centre. Usual few gulls nothing out of the Audiounary here 😅.

Friday 26th Out in the maquis Cettis Warbler. Distant unid Flycatcher sp. 6 Sardinian Warbler 3 Blue Tit. 

I wonder when the Cettis in the Western Med will get split from those in the East based on the different song pitch and tempos. I always find W more musical than E.

Porto Colom Walk Saved By Flycatchers

Another depressing start to the morning until I ventured into the patch of coastal trees on the edge of the harbour.

I came to a grinding halt on seeing a small passerine atop a wire railing. My luck was in, the bird gave good views even when it flitted to perch elsewhere. A Red-breasted Flycatcher 😍👍.

3 LBBG ditto Audouins Gull and c10 YLG also seen.

I got back to the hotel and couldn’t help but see another flittering flitter in bushes by the swimming pool.Turned out to be none other than a Pied Flycatcher 😘.