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….
Lanzarote and Fuerteventura Holiday Summary I can’t really say that we were particularly organised for birding and we were certainly not organised enough but with the help of Carmen from “LanzaroteActiveClub” and a brief read of “Gosney” we were not completely without resources. We did manage to see most of our target birds and mixed…
Lanzarote : 16th February 2015 The 16th February was the last day of our holiday so we had to sort the hire car out and pack our bags etc. We did manage a last visit to the Salinas de Janubio though. At first this seemed to be astonishingly empty, perhaps because of some recent heavy…
Lanzarote : 15th February 2015 We didn’t really do any birding this day but we did see a Southern Grey Shrike or two at Papagayo beach as well ad the usual Yellow-legged Gulls and Rock Doves.
Fuerteventura : 14th February 2015 We got 9am Armas ferry from Playa Blanca to Correlejo ( €95 Inc 10% discount for using the car hire firm). From Correlejo we drove down to the Antigua plain, specifically with the hope of seeing Black-bellied Sandgrouse at a location we got from Dave Gosney’s book “Finding Birds in…
Lanzarote : 13th February 2015 The 13th was a bit of a lazy day for us and, although we went to the lighthouse and a couple of other places around Playa Blanca mentioned by Gosney we didn’t see much. Our best views were of around a dozen Dolphins coming quite close in at the lighthouse….
Lanzarote : 12th February 2015 On Thursday 12th February we headed up north with the idea of seeing some of the wild flowers growing there in profusion, particularly after the heavy rains of December. We weren’t sure exactly where to go but we thought that if we headed for the Mirador del Rio in the…
Lanzarote : 11th February 2015 On the 11th of February we decided to retrace our steps at El Jable to see if we could find any of the desert birds we had seen a couple of days previously with our guide Carmen. I had made a GPS track of our day out and this enabled…
Lanzarote : 10th February 2015 On the 10th February we spent the morning doing the Timanfaya tour which was as amazing as ever. Apart from a few Berthelot’s Pipits there wasn’t much bird action. We left there for a camel ride on the slopes of the volcano nearby but again only the roost of Rock…
On our second day on Lanzarote we chilled out a bit and took advantage of the improved weather, even getting a bit of balcony sunbathing in. We did just squeeze in a walk down the promenade which gave us a view of four or five Turnstone on the rocks and a pair of diving Sandwich…
