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Mallorca Holiday 28th April 2015 : S’ Albufera,Son Bosc and Depuradora de S’Illot
Mallorca Holiday 28th April 2015 : Son Bosc, Depuradora de S’Illot and S’ Albufera Our destination this day was to the S’ Albufera nature reserve near C’an Picafort, a huge reserve that always impresses with its huge range of habitats and species. We also had another target, though, and that was to try to see
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Mallorca Holiday 27th April 2015 : La Gola, Boquer Valley and Pollenca Environs
Mallorca Holiday 27th April 2015 : La Gola, Boquer Valley and Pollenca Environs We woke up to find that it had been raining in the night and that there was a 25% chance of rain during the day. This meant that a possible plan to go to S’ Albufera was put on hold in favour
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Mallorca Holiday 26th April 2015 : Port de Pollenca and La Gola
Mallorca Holiday 26th April 2015 : Port de Pollenca and La Gola. With friends from Palma visiting us at noon we had just enough time for a spin around La Gola before they arrived. The general area held the usual Greenshank and Common Sandpiper and a Yellow-legged Gull. There were numerous Mallard chicks and one
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Mallorca Holiday 25th April 2015 : Port de Pollenca, La Gola and the Boquer Valley
Mallorca Holiday 25th April 2015 : Port de Pollenca, La Gola and the Boquer Valley After yesterday’s exertions we decided to have a quieter day today taking in some of the sites close to our hotel. Yesterday had been scorching hot so we wanted to be nearer to some refreshments if needed. We took in
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Mallorca Holiday 24th April 2015 : “Pollenca Back Lanes”
Mallorca Holiday 24th April 2015 : “Pollenca Back Lanes” We decided to do a bit of local birding as a warm up for the more distant sites that we meant to do later in our holiday. We plumped for the “Pollenca Back Lanes” tour mentioned in Dave Gosney’s book ““Finding Birds in Mallorca”. The walk
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Mallorca Holiday 23rd April 2015 : La Gola and Port de Pollenca
Mallorca Holiday 23rd April 2015 : La Gola and Port de Pollenca We had visited Mallorca in October of 2014 (see here for summary of that trip) and were so impressed with the birding that we decided we just had to return for the spring migration when it is supposed to be inundated with birds.
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Burton Mere Wetlands and Parkgate : 21 April 2015
Burton Mere Wetlands and Parkgate : 21 April 2015 We missed the first birding group outing of this term as a result of heavy colds and building work on the house so we were particularly pleased to eventually get out of the house and into the country. We had missed the birding group visit to

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