{"id":2570,"date":"2024-04-06T10:57:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T09:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2024-04-05T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T11:00:08","slug":"another-great-birding-tour-with-heatherlea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/another-great-birding-tour-with-heatherlea\/","title":{"rendered":"Another great birding tour with Heatherlea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spain in early spring tour report<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Heatherlea early spring in Spain tour participants<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

This was a fully-ascribed bird tour from 2nd to 9th March, starting off with 2 nights at the Ebro Delta<\/strong> – it was windy, but we managed, quite well, in fact: Bluethroat, Moustached Warbler, Slender-billed Gull, Audouin’s Gull, Common Gull, Booted Eagle, Whiskered Tern, Caspian Tern, hordes of Greater Flamingos, a roost of more than 100 Night Herons, Black-necked Grebe… there are so many birds here in this delta!<\/p>\n

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Ebro Delta birding destination<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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Ebro delta birding: a flock of Avocets. Photo by Zane Davidsone. Thanks Zane!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Then it was on to bird the area surrounding Lleida<\/strong>, our home town, for one night: Golden Eagle, Bonell’s Eagle, Short-toed Eagle, Eagle Owl, Little Bustard, Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Dupont’s Lark, Iberian Green Woodpecker, Bearded Tit … Now that’s what I call quality birding! Thanks Lleida!<\/p>\n

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Now for the last leg, and the piece de resistance<\/em> … would we see the Wallcreeper?<\/strong> Yes! Not one, but two Wallcreepers<\/strong>, and impossibly close-up. Then there were flocks of migrating Cranes in the sunshine, crossing northwards over the Pyrenees<\/strong>. What could follow that? Apart from birds such as Citril Finch, Rock Bunting, Lammergeier, Crested Tit…<\/p>\n

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Winter Wallcreeper. Photo by Michael Vecht. Thanks Michael!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

And then a visit for birding the high mountains of the Pyrenees<\/strong> and a foot in France for Alpine Chough and a few more bits and bobs, before a last day’s birding on the pseudosteppes of the Monegros<\/strong>, for Stone Curlew, Black-bellied Sandgrouse, Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, Hen Harrier, Golden Eagle, Mediterranean Short-toed Lark…<\/p>\n

What a tour! Northeast Spain. What a way to kick off the spring birding season of 2024!<\/p>\n

Read the full tour report on the following link:<\/p>\n

HEATHERLEA TRIP REPORT SPAIN IN EARLY SPRING 2024<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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