Male Serin
3M Black Redstart
Totals: 72 (6)
Woodlark – 1
Meadow Pipit - 3
Black Redstart - 1
Robin – 5 (2)
Cetti’s Warbler - 2 (2)
Sardinian Warbler – 10
Blackcap – 17 (1)
Chiffchaff – 8
Great Tit - 0 (1)
Spanish Sparrow - 1
Chaffinch - 1
Serin – 23
After ringing we checked out the Desalination Plant. A field, rather pungent with the smell of peppers was no deterent to the Stonechats.
Female Stonechat
Closer to our usual ringing spot we found that the fire had cleared a lot of the bramble while reed regeneration was already coming on at a pace. There should be options here in the spring.
Record shot of a rather late male Red-backed Shrike.
Rather dry, but spectacular nonetheless, seed head
An abandoned citrus grove already has trees coming into bloom,
creating a delicious scent as you walk between the rows.
Next stop Mandria although by now it was raining. A single Dunlin preferred a muddy puddle to the shingle beach.
Dunlin
On the fields some Golden Plover were spotted before being flushed off by an incoming plane. There was also a sizable flock of Skylarks.