Friday, 21 February 2025

Birding In Portugal

Tavira
Day 1 a 90 minute afternoon saunter after arrival. Black tailed Godwits. Avocets. 1 Grey Plover. Sanderlings. Dunlins. BW Stilts. Other distant waders. 3 White Wagtails 1 Yellow Wagtail ssp. Cettis Warbler. Zittin Cisticola. House Martins & Swallows. YLGs & BHGs.

Day 2

Imagine a wetland 25 times Swillington full of birds.

Pr White Stork on nest atop a power station chimney.

120+ Black tailed Godwit similar Dunlin. 3 Spoonbill loads of BW Stilt and Avocet. Scores Sanderlng. 700+ Cormorant. Several Redshank 1 Spotted Redshank. 1 Grey Plover. Pr Shelduck.

Zitting Cistocolas. Sardinian Warblers. Cettis Warbler, WW & other of that ilk that were just too zippy for my aging brain cells.

Few Linnet & Goldfinch more House Martins & Swallows.

More LBBG than YLG a few BHG.