Mallorca : 18th October 2015 : La Gola The 18th was a bit of a chill-out day and, as Anne went over to Pollenca town for the market, I stayed at home and caught up on my birding notes, doing some laundry and tracking down more, badly needed, mosquito spray. I just managed to fit…
Mallorca : 17th October 2015 : S’Albefura Bird Ringing Surprising ourselves after a very long day the day before, we did get up in time to get to S’albufera for the bird ringing that Cristina had told us she was leading even though we missed the first quarter of an hour or so. As we…
Mallorca : 16th October 2015 : Guided Birding Day at Mortixt, Cuber and Salobrar de Campos. The 16th was our planned guided birding day so it was an early start. We were to be driven to various sites by Cristina Fiol from BalearsWildlife who turned out to be a great guide. We had to get…
Mallorca : 15th October 2015 : S’Albufera The weather on the 14th had been pretty poor so we actually cancelled our birding plan for that day. Today we had another plan and that also went awry. We had planned a boat trip around Cap Formentor but the posters we had been getting our information from…
Mallorca : 13th October 2015 : Alcudia and La Gola The last time we were at the Roman remains in Alcudia we were on a walking tour so we could not really stop to look at the birds but I made a mental note to return there to look for birds because it seemed to…
Mallorca : 12th October 2015 : Boquer Valley This day was a lovely day for a walk up the Bocquer Valley but it was also a public holiday so there were a huge number of people walking the valley including hordes of infants out on some group nature trek – very noisy indeed. This combined…
Mallorca : 11th October 2015 : Arrival and travelling to hotel; La Gola We set off horribly early on the 11th of October for a fortnight holiday in Mallorca where we again stayed at the Hoposa Uyal Hotel in Port de Pollenca. We had stayed there last Autumn and again this Spring. We were a…
RSPB Otmoor : 29th June 2015 As we left the Fat Fox in Watlington to return to Manchester we stopped off at RSPB Otmoor with the hope that we might be able to see the Turtle Doves that breed there – one of the few places where you are in with a good chance of…
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve : 26th June 2015 Having spent the morning ot RSPB Dungeness we spent some time walking around Rye Town and we found ourselves with a little time at the end of the day so we made a return visit to Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. This time we took another path to…
RSPB Dungeness : 26th June 2015 On the morning of the 26th we stopped at Dereck Jarman’s garden first before heading off for RSPB Dungeness which I had never been to before but was curious to see. We started by dropping into the visitor centre where we immediately got a good year tick when one…
