April 6, 2015

For the last couple of days Beth and Barbara have been with us and today four more clients joined us to form the group for this eight-day tour of Andalucia looking for migrating birds and resident breeding species.........

March 31, 2015

Jimmy's flight was not until late in the day so we had a morning left in which to go birding. The weather was beautiful as usual as we set off down the hill to the Rio Genal. We had heard from Penny and Paul our local birding friends that Common Nightingales had arrived back on their breeding grounds so we went to look for them............

March 30, 2015

Our last full day and still we had a few species to find, the weather was beautiful, those cold wet days at the beginning of the tour are long forgotten now.......

March 29, 2015

A beautiful sunny day was spent on Gibraltar, we saw many raptors drift over in small groups, a flock of 52 BEE-EATERS was nice to see.........

March 28, 2015

Another superb sunny day with a full day's programme and some exciting venues...........new migrants seen today included Woodchat Shrikes, Common Redstarts, Hoopoes, Collared Pratincoles, Black-eared Wheater, Northern Wheatear, Whinchat and BEE-EATERS

March 27, 2015

A lovely Spanish spring day, with a top temperature of 25C, no wind and a clear sky, just lovely! We saw a good number of species including more firsts' for the year.......Montagu's Harrier, Tree Pipit & Collared Pratincole to name but a few...........

March 26, 2015

The range in temperatures today was unbelievable, we set off at 8am with 4C registered on the car temp. gauge and at 3pm at the coast we recorded 27C........insane, I had to take off my jacket! Despite this cold weather, with North-Easterly winds, migrating birds still trickle across from Africa. We recorded our first PURPLE HERON, LITTLE BITTERN and BLACK-EARED WHEATEAR of the year.........

March 25, 2015

More and more migrants fInd their way onto to our list as we find our first: Gull-billed Tern, Alpine Swift, Garganey and lots more Yellow Wagtails..........

March 24, 2015

A much better day as far as rain was concerned but it was very cold all day except occasionally when the sun came out............

March 23, 2015

A complete contrast in the weather today, it actually stopped raining!! But only for a short while in the village. We had a clear sky to begin with and a very misty start to the day......................