We visited the Parque Ambiental at Vilamoura where a group of bird ringers from Staffordshire were on an annual ringing trip. It was great to see birds 'in the hand' which included swallows, martins, warblers and a lovely Bluethroat.
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| Bluethroat |
Unfortunately we missed seeing a juvenile Booted Eagle close to but did see it fly off.
At the Casro Verde visitor centre we had good views of Wheatears and a rather hot Tawny Pipit before Pete identified a juvenile Bonelli's Eagle being mobbed by a couple of Ravens.
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| Northern Wheatear |
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| Tawny Pipit |
On a pelagic out of Fuseta, organised by Georg, we had good views of Audouin's and Slender-billed Gulls at the entrance to the lagoons.
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Audouin's Gull
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| Slender-billed Gull |
Out at sea we were pleased to see Cory's, Balearic, Scopoli's, Sooty and Great Shearwater, as well as European Storm Petrel, Common Terns, Gannets and Great Skua.
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| Cory's Shearwater |
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| Great Shearwater |
And finally we had our last visit to Cape St Vincent where we visited the raptor watchpoint and ventured off the main roads in search of Rock Doves on the cliffs. We found a party of Little Bustards feeding in the short scrub.
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| Little Bustard |
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