{"id":453,"date":"2010-07-23T17:53:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T15:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birding-and-wildlife-trips\/the-perfect-short-birding-trip\/"},"modified":"2010-07-23T17:55:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T15:55:47","slug":"the-perfect-short-birding-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birding-and-wildlife-trips\/the-perfect-short-birding-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"The perfect short birding trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring is over, summer is here, so shouldn’t you be making plans for a short winter trip<\/strong> to northeast Spain<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

In the February mid-term Max came birding<\/strong> with us for just 4 days and took home no fewer than 15 lifers<\/strong>, and it wasn’t his first birding trip to Spain!<\/p>\n

Here’s a little about the 15 lifers we got for Max:<\/p>\n

2 Wallcreepers <\/strong>(Sarah: “All I can see are two butterflies”)<\/p>\n

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

Black Woodpecker. Photo by Michele Mendi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

2 Black Woodpeckers<\/strong> – they gave us a damn good run for our money (me: “I’ll master their call in the end”)<\/p>\n

\"Alpine<\/p>\n

Alpine Accentor Prunella collaris. Photo by Franck Renard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

2 Alpine Accentors<\/strong> (they came out of the blue and landed on\u00a0the monastery walls right in front of us).<\/p>\n

\"Firecrest<\/p>\n

Firecrest. Photo by Jan-Michael Breider<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

2 Firecrests<\/strong> (me: “This looks like the right kind of place for a Firecrest”)<\/p>\n

7 Great Bustards<\/strong> (all males, and a bit too close for their comfort)<\/p>\n

2 Little Bustards<\/strong> (I wasn’t expecting them to be here!)<\/p>\n

\"Dupont\u2019s<\/p>\n

Dupont’s Lark.<\/p>\n

1 Dupont’s Lark<\/strong> (cracking views, only wish I could get into the habit of having my\u00a0camera with me at the right moments).<\/p>\n

\"Common<\/p>\n

Common Crane. Photo by Franck Renard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

170+ Cranes<\/strong><\/p>\n

70+ Pin-tailed Sandgrouse<\/strong><\/p>\n

About\u00a040 Black-bellied Sandgrouse<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Bonelli\u2019s<\/p>\n

Bonelli’s Eagle. Photo by Joao Cosme<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

3 Bonelli’s Eagles<\/strong> (2 adults perched on rocks on the second morning were a good incentive for getting out of bed!)<\/p>\n

1 Eagle Owl<\/strong> (cracking views!)<\/p>\n

\"Goshawk,<\/p>\n

Goshawk. Photo by Michele Mendi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

2 Goshawks<\/strong> (you never know when you’re going to bump into these)<\/p>\n

\"Lammergeier,<\/p>\n

Lammergeier. Photo by Chris Schenk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

1 Lammergeier<\/strong> (a camera with flat batteries is worse than no camera!)<\/p>\n

1 Spectacled Warbler<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plus Little Owl, Thekla Lark, Lesser Short-toed Lark, Wryneck, Blue Rock Thrush, Calandra Lark.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All in all it was quite\u00a0an instructive period, wouldn’t you agree Max?! \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring is over, summer is here, so shouldn’t you be making plans for a short winter trip to northeast Spain? In the February mid-term Max came birding with us for just 4 days and took home no fewer than 15 lifers, and it wasn’t his first birding trip to Spain! Here’s a little about the […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-and-wildlife-trips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-7j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","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=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}