Trip Reports

Extremadura May 2006

We left Madrid airport and headed Southwest for Trujillo just after midday. Our first

birds were Common Swifts hawking the terminal buildings quickly followed by

Spotless Starling and Collared Dove. We stopped for refreshments along the

motorway where we saw our first Booted Eagle soaring high above us, one or two

Common Buzzards were also noted. As we neared Trujillo White Storks we

becoming a common sight as they attended their huge stick-nests, along with Cattle

Egrets and Black Kites. We pulled off the motorway at Almaraz and headed for the

Laguna Oropesa near the power station. The was quite a strong wind on the causeway

but we managed to notch up a few species, Purple and Grey Herons, Cattle Egrets

and Little Bittern were all seen a number of times in flight whilst Purple Swamphen,

Great Reed Warblers showed very briefly. We heard Cetti’s, Reed and Savi’s

Warblers but the windy conditions kept them low down in the scrub.

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