{"id":248,"date":"2009-01-03T20:47:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T18:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/photos-and-places\/dutchman-meets-the-flying-pelican\/"},"modified":"2009-01-03T20:47:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T18:47:09","slug":"dutchman-meets-the-flying-pelican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/photos-and-places\/dutchman-meets-the-flying-pelican\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutchman meets the Flying Pelican"},"content":{"rendered":"

I met up with Marten van Dijl<\/strong> from the Netherlands recently. We did a spot of birding around Montsec and then the drylands of Alf\u00e9s, before going our own ways.<\/p>\n

Marten was back in Holland for the New Year,\u00a0but still found the time to send an e-mail with some of his photos.<\/p>\n

The following are his photos of the White Pelican<\/strong> that’s been loitering with the local White Storks. Check out some of Marten’s work at his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"White<\/p>\n

Preening is a very important task for any Stork, sorry, Pelican<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"White<\/p>\n

Can’t think why they’re ignoring me. <\/em><\/p>\n

“I had a great time again, seeing some friends, birding and coming back with some good photos. I’ll tell you what I saw after I met with you at Alfes – first of all the white pelican<\/strong>, which was roosting at the church in Torres de Segre, until it flew off. You don’t have to be a psychic to predict it went to the rubbish dump, and there it was.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"White<\/p>\n

Oh! The promised land!<\/em><\/p>\n

“Later, at the same spot the three little bustards<\/strong> were\u00a0still there, in exactly the same spot, still not moving. There was also\u00a0a flock of pin-tailed sandgrouse<\/strong>, I counted 70! Other good birds included a perched golden eagle<\/strong> at Bellmunt.<\/p>\n

The next day I\u00a0went to Laguna de Gallocanta<\/strong> – lots of cranes, hard to photograph, and after that I decided to spend my last day in the Ebro Delta<\/strong>. I was surprised by the number of chiffchaffs (everywhere, along the shores and canals) and kingfisher (10+). I had good photos of a circling booted eagle after a short chase in the car.<\/p>\n

Like you suggested, I started reading your book during my flight back, I’ve now just finished the chapter about the Bewick’s Swan at Buda Island<\/strong>. I enjoy reading it, it’s a good read, recognizable stories and interesting because it deals with an area of Spain<\/strong> I’ve come to know. At the same time, it’s useful to refresh my English.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I met up with Marten van Dijl from the Netherlands recently. We did a spot of birding around Montsec and then the drylands of Alf\u00e9s, before going our own ways. Marten was back in Holland for the New Year,\u00a0but still found the time to send an e-mail with some of his photos. The following are […]<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos-and-places"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-40","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","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=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}