Made a brief trip to Costa Brava for the first few days of May. Water levels were high on the reserve so little space for small waders with short legs. Plenty of stilts about and a couple of avocets and black tailed godwits . On the flooded fields there were a few wood sand piper and ringed plover but that was it except for 3 woodsands and a little ringed plover on the beach and 2 on a shingle bank on the river.
Several purple herons and plenty of squacco heron were about but only one little bitern and no night heron.
We saw rollers and bee eaters on several occasions and woodchat shrikes on the final day but there was no evidence of any intense migration. On Empuria seafront the crag martins were not in their usual place but a few alpine swifts were a surprise there on the 1st day.
There were plenty of swifts about and some could have been pallids but the jury's still out on that. Lesser kestrels were less of a problem but none of the many kestrels which were about were very obliging with the views they allowed.
New species for the year included tree sparrow, sardinian warbler, wood warbler, parakeet, whiskered and gull billed tern, short toed eagle and little gull.
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