BirdingInSpain

Birding Mallorca

Thanks to Geoff and June for their appreciative comments of the Birding In Spain itineraries for birding on Mallorca, as well as the useful update about access to the Salines de Salobrar in the south of the island.

First a sincere thank you for the information on your web site. We’ve just had a short birding trip to Majorca (Mallorca) and your information and itineraries were perfect.

Now some updated information. The salt company at the Salines de Salobrar have put up no access signs. There is also a locked gate on the path your itinerary tells visitors to use. By the gate there is a new information board about the birds, which we found strange. We then met another couple of birders who told us the company now want you to go to the salt plant and pay €10 to enter the site and walk around to see the birds. I have to admit we hoped across a bank and stayed at the edge of area to see what was there.

Finally, we spent quite a while looking for Thekla larks without any luck. On our last morning we took a walk from our rural hotel in Moscari to get a photo of the hotel across the fields and there, no more than 200m from the hotel, we saw a pair feeding.

We found Majorca a great place to bird watch at this time of the year.

Again thanks for your website.

Elsewhere on Mallorca you can find Purple Gallinules 

Geoff & June Seabrook