Sawfly Orchid (Ophrys tenthredinifera) I´ll say it again, La Mancha is not a dust bowl of sleepy villages but a vibrant region of colour. Every spring there is a myriad of orchids screaming for your attention in the country. The variety and colour is fantastic. Take this Sawfly Orchid […]
Yearly Archives: 2011
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1. Drive a quad-bike around a Nature Reserve. The birds love loud exhausts. 2. Use the newly built hide for fishing from and walk around it talking and wearing brightly coloured shirts. Don´t bother using the 100 or so properly built fishing steps. 3. Let your dog off a leash, […]
Black-Crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), a photo by Mike at Sea on Flickr. They have a black crown, like to be out at night, they just have to be the dark princes. This fine looking NH seems to be roosting in the two willow trees downstream from Alarcos bridge. I was […]
Great Spotted Cuckoo (Clamator glandarius), a photo by Mike at Sea on Flickr. Bee-eater and Little Owl, a photo by Mike at Sea on Flickr. Great Spotted Cuckoos, Bee-eaters, sunshine, it´s all starting to come together. These were out by the old castle, Calatrava la Vieja, in Carrión.
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), a photo by Mike at Sea on Flickr. It was rather quite special to see an Osprey in Peralvillo yesterday. Even more special to see it flying with a fish, which I missed it catching. Not so the gulls though, they saw what was going on and […]
As promised here are some shots of the latest arrivals. Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides), a photo by Mike at Sea on Flickr. Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) 02, a photo by Mike at Sea on Flickr.
Yesterday in Peralvillo I was delighted to see two Purple Herons and a Squacco Heron. One Purple Heron down towards the farm, across the bridge and North was huge. The other was rather slight and near the Squacco Heron at the turn off from the village to the bridge. I […]
Short-toed Eagle (Circaetus gallicus), a photo by Mike at Sea on Flickr. …Or beer and birds, which was it? My wife and I just spent the weekend in Osuna, Sevilla at a reunion of the Spanish Homebrewers Association, of which she is a member. The place chosen was a Casa […]
Woodchat Shrike (Lanius senator) a photo by Mike at Sea on Flickr. This time of year is all very exciting. The Egyptians are coming, the Ruffs are breezing through, the shrikes are arriving…let them all come and enjoy the beautiful spring we´re having right now.
Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) 02 a photo by Mike at Sea on Flickr. It´s spring, the weather has been crap for two weeks and finally I get out and they´ve been two good days. Two Glossy Ibis are still in Peralvillo, a Ruff in the Navas de Malagon as well […]