The inland mountain areas offer some brilliant #Birding at the moment and our guests have been able to enjoy in-the-face views of trans-Saharan migrants like this Western Orphean #Warbler yesterday 😊

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Continued strong #levante making the #14km crossing even more treacherous for these migratory #WindWarriors the drive to defiantly get to the breeding grounds continues !

The flow of European Honey #Buzzards attracting their own dedicated admirers, we are of course among them!

The flow of migrating European Honey Buzzards was 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐄 y´day !

𝟏,𝟖𝟑𝟔 European Honey #Buzzards from our watchpoints with guests from Naturetrek

+ 184 Black #Kites , 28 Short-toed #Eagles , 36 Booted Eagles, 2 Black Stork and 46 returning Griffon #Vultures !

The passage of European Honey Buzzards flowed over our guests from Naturetrek y´day!

389 of these returned from their African moist forest wintering grounds in our faces!

Joining the mig-party Booted and Short-toed #Eagles , Black and White #Storks and Egyptian #Vulture

Y’ we were among the marismas of the western side of The #Straits with guests from Naturetrek

Here Slender-billed #Gulls in full glory, Tawny #Pipits , Iberian Yellow #Wagtails & Greater Short-toed #Larks and the bustling colony of Collared Pratincoles !

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A great day y´day of #FlywayBirding for guests from Naturetrek

167 European Honey Buzzards, 421 Black Kite, 40 Booted Eagles, 26 Short-toed Eagles, 2 Egyptian Vultures, Eurasian Hobby, Western Osprey crossing The #Straits and this Grey-headed Yellow Wagtail (thunbergi)

440 Black #Kites , 105 European Honey #Buzzards , 34 Booted & 23 Short-toed #Eagles , Egyptian Vulture, Black and White Storks and 71 returning Griffon #Vultures as European Bee-eaters piled in y´day!

This Short-toed Eagle got a customary Yellow-legged Gull welcome to Europe!

Glorious rain and a moderate to strong #poniente y´day morn so urban park #Birding and then on to the campo to see more spring arrivals!

Trees alive with #Flycatchers , #Warblers y more, in the campo Western Black-eared Wheatears dazzled us & streams of Pallid and Common Swifts!

A great day for guests yesterday!

Among the myriad of migrating #Shorebirds and the noisy Collared Pratincole colony, then woods full of passage Spotted and Pied Flycatchers, the splendour of the Northern Bald Ibis (pic) colony and these gorgeous Tawny Owls!

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Yesterday our private boat trip into The #Straits was amaaaaazing !

Everywhere there were Long-finned Pilot Whales and Bottle-nosed Dolphins …then suddenly two Sperm Whales !

The interactions with the Long-finned Pilot Whales was astounding! 😊

With the light-to-moderate #poniente wind we had a nice flow of soaring migrants down the E.side of The #Straits today with building numbers of European Honey #Buzzards alongside Short-toed & Booted #Eagles , Egyptian #Vultures , Black #Storks , returning Griffon Vultures & more!

Woodland, parks and scrub reveal migratory gems arriving here now - Western Subalpine, Melodious, Western Orphean & Wood #Warblers , Iberian Chiff-chaffs, Pied Flycatchers, Common Redstarts & more !

Vagrant gems are sure to be found like this short staying Collared Flycatcher !

Meanwhile downtown a gorgeous and unexpected male 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐥𝐲𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 joined the migration party!

Normally breeding across Eastern Europe it is a welcome vagrant!

(Thanks to #amigo Ricky Owen for news on the Flycatcher!) #FlywayBirding

We got ourselves in the flow of migrating soaring #Birds yesterday with 12 European Honey #Buzzards , 915 Black #Kites , 79 Booted (pic) and 75 Short-toed #Eagles , Black #Storks , Montagu´s and Marsh #Harriers , Egyptian #Vulture and returning Griffon #Vulture s !

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Our guests have been among the splendour of The #Straits these days with masses of European Bee-eaters, monstrous Eurasian Eagle #Owl , hyperactive Collared #Pratincoles , the brilliance of Northern Bald #Ibis , in-the-face beauty of Western Black-eared #Wheatear and more! 😊

A strong #Levante wind brought us and the #raptors to the western side of The #Straits today and we were in the thick of #Vulture mayhem with our guests!

Egyptian #Vulture s cruised over amongst over 200 Griffon Vultures coming to carrion with 2 adult Rüppell´s Vultures present.

The #Straits is THE arena for #FlywayLearning with students from BU Biology & Zoology School of Natural Sciences - Bangor University with the ace Dr. Ewa Krzyszczyk y Dr Caroline Bettridge

Y´day studying #Shorebird populations, spp richness & nearest neighbour analysis, then onto focal follow studies on Northern Bald #Ibis !😊

Treacherous winds for soaring #Bird migrants in The #Straits .

Booted & Short-toed #Eagles (pics) Egyptian #Vultures , Black Kites & both White & Black #Storks crossing.

#FlywayDrama in front of students BU Biology & Zoology Environmental & Natural Sciences @ Bangor Univ. we witnessed a Black Kite sadly ditch in the sea!

Whilst the #Levante pushes soaring #Bird #migration to the W. side of The #Straits we also found time to observe #shorebird behaviour, survey the Griffon Vulture colonies and count #Seabird passage with students Bangor University

This gorgeous Kentish #Plover zoomed into our view !

With our second group from Bangor University we studied the migratory flow of soaring #Birds through The #Straits yesterday.

Flows of Booted Eagles (pics), Short-toed Eagles & Black Kites as the skies filled with Pallid & Common Swifts as groups of White Storks battled the #14km .