After yet another protracted absence from the blog, here are a few pics of some of the more interesting birds which I have come across so fat this year.Lapwings are not rare of course but this year there have been exceptional numbers on the flooded fields of theTardoire valley.The flocks peaked at around a thousand often in the company of a similar number of golden lovers.
Cattle egrets have been very plentiful also, sometimes in flocks of over one hundred. Great white egrets have not been hard to find either but usually in small groups of up to three.
Dartford warblers obligingly showed up in the gorse near Soyaux and the perigrine falcon was in a quarry in the north of the department. Th floode fields also held lesser black backed gulls and black headed gulls but the great crested grebe was on the Mas Chaban lake.
The tiny zitting cisticola was seen near Agris as was the tree sparrow.
We await now the arrival of the main spring migrants as the cranes have already passed in their tens of thousands.
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