Birding trip to Spain - Warblers and small passserines

Great Reed Warbler

Yellow Wagtail (iberiae)

Zitting Cisticola (Fan-tailed warbler)

Citril Finch (m)

Stonechat (m)

Calandra Lark

Calandra Lark

Nightingale

Crested Tit

Sardinian Warbler (m)

Sardinian Warbler (m)

Sardinian Warbler (m)

Penduline Tit

Penduline Tit

Cirl Bunting (m)

Rock Bunting (m)

Black Redstart (young m)

Black Redstarts 

Black Redstarts

Black Redstarts

Black Redstarts

Woodlark

Black Redstart

Dartford Warbler

Ortolan Bunting

Ortolan Bunting

Sardinian Warbler (m)

Serin (m)

Birding trip to Spain - Gulls & Terns

Common Tern

Audouins Gull

Slender-billed Gull

Whiskered Tern

Whiskered Tern

Whiskered Tern

Whiskered Tern

Gull-billed Tern

Gull-billed Tern

Birding trip to Spain - Grouse, Cuckoo & Bustard

Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (f)

Great Spotted Cuckoo (pair)

Great Spotted Cuckoo 

Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (f)

Little Bustard

Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (m on right)

Great Spotted Cuckoo

(Common) Cuckoo

Saltees and Carrig

Migration season means i spend most weekend mornings on the Saltees trying for the occasional rarity or 'tick' (be it year or lifer) and any free weekdays in and around home hoping to encounter some of the local wildlife. Here are a few pics that I've taken these last few weeks.

Merlin - Saltees

Merlin - Saltees

Buzzard - Lingstown

Kestrel - Lingstown

Raven - Lingstown

Buzzard - Lingstown

Peacock Butterfly - Lingstown

Razorbill - Saltees

Razorbill - Saltees

Puffin - Saltees

Sedge Warbler - Saltees

Raven - Carrig-on-Bannow

Raven - Carrig-on-Bannow

Sparrowhawk - Carrig-on-Bannow

Sparrowhawk - Carrig-on-Bannow

Sparrowhawk - Carrig-on-Bannow

Whimbrel - Wellingtonbridge

Puffins - Saltees

Arctic Skua - Saltees

Lesser Whitethroat (lifer) - Saltees

Lesser Whitethroat - Saltees

Lesser Whitethroat - Saltees