{"id":1831,"date":"2023-02-22T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2023-02-15T13:15:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T12:15:51","slug":"last-spring-was-busy-unlike-the-previous-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/last-spring-was-busy-unlike-the-previous-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Last spring was busy (unlike the previous two)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We shared the birds last spring, with people like you &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2104\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2104\" data-attachment-id=\"2104\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/last-spring-was-busy-unlike-the-previous-two\/attachment\/portsgroup2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/portsgroup2.jpg?fit=370%2C310&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"370,310\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;FinePix F601 ZOOM&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1051782368&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;9.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0028571428571429&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Birding group in Catalonia\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Birding with Birding In Spain&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Birding with Birding In Spain&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/portsgroup2.jpg?fit=300%2C251&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/portsgroup2.jpg?fit=370%2C310&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-2104\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/portsgroup2.jpg?resize=350%2C293&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/portsgroup2.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/portsgroup2.jpg?resize=300%2C251&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birding with Birding In Spain<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2105\" style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2105\" data-attachment-id=\"2105\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/last-spring-was-busy-unlike-the-previous-two\/attachment\/birdingrocioweb\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/birdingrocioweb.jpg?fit=360%2C266&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"360,266\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;W595&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1365503484&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Birding together\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Birding together, Birding In Spain&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Birding together, Birding In Spain&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/birdingrocioweb.jpg?fit=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/birdingrocioweb.jpg?fit=360%2C266&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-2105\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/birdingrocioweb.jpg?resize=349%2C258&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/birdingrocioweb.jpg?w=360&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/birdingrocioweb.jpg?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birding together, Birding In Spain<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00b7 Vreni from Switzerland: 4 days based near Lleida in early March<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Len and Lucy from North Carolina USA: 12-day Spring across Spain tour in March, with almost 200 species, from the Ebro Delta, to the Pyrenees, to Do\u00f1ana and Tarifa, linked by the fast train.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Michiel and two friends from the Netherlands: five days guided birding from Lleida. They were amazed at the variety of birds they saw, 174 species in all.<\/p>\n<p>Kath and Mick from the UK: two-week northeast Spain tour in late April. Plains and mountains, orchids galore. Theirs was the last Wallcreeper before they ascended to their breeding haunts high up the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 North Staffs RSPB group, UK: the long-awaited tour of Catalonia, based at two centres &#8211; Lleida and Cambrils. Their hotel at Cambrils had Golden Orioles and Red-necked Nightjars from the balcony!<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Indiana University, USA: In mid-May the weather spiked at 38\u00baC near Seville for the first day of our Spring across Spain Tour with 6 participants from Indiana! Nevertheless, the southern leg of the tour was a huge success, and in all over 200 species of birds and around 50 species of butterflies were recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Cliff and Judith, UK: In late June we did our first Central Spain Tour together. Great birds of the mountains, plains and dehesas and unbeatable scenery.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc4d WE COULDN&#8217;T DO THIS WITHOUT YOU \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We shared the birds last spring, with people like you &#8230; \u00b7 Vreni from Switzerland: 4 days based near Lleida in early March \u00b7 Len and Lucy from North Carolina USA: 12-day Spring across Spain tour in March, with almost 200 species, from the Ebro Delta, to the Pyrenees, to Do\u00f1ana and Tarifa, linked by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-in-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-tx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions\/2109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}