Just a few extra bits on the Spanish trip. The weather was rather bizarre for early May with rain, high winds and even snow virtually everywhere in Spain--in fact it was the main national news item on TV throughout the time we were there.
The birding was ok though.:
Birds in NE Spain included bee-eater, roller, oriole, woodchat shrike, lesser kestrel, sardinian warbler, pallid swift, garganey, gadwall, little bittern, night heron, squacco heron, purple heron, whiskered tern, spotted sandpiper, glossy ibis, spotless starling, great reed warbler, red-rumped swallow, and wood sandpiper. Nightingales were particularly numerous and often out in the open; sometimes several could be viewed feeding on the ground at the same time.
Most of the The Hecho valley area has been outlined in a previous post but there were also several sightings of rock bunting and one calling scops owl.
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