Mallorca Holiday 2nd May 2015 : Walk from Port De Pollenca to Cala Sant Vincenze We tried the other walk from north coast to west coast, from Port De Pollenca to Cala Sant Vincenze. This was a much more difficult walk than the Bouquer valley one. The path is really just the bed of a…
Mallorca Holiday 1st May 2015 : C’an Cuarassa, S’Albufereta
Summary : April 2015 New Species added to 2015 Year List in April = 11 Running Total for the 2015 UK So Far = 112 New UK Life List Birds In March = 0 Our Garden Lots of activity now with Tits gadding around, a Dunnock furtling, a Robin putting in an appearance. the two…
Mallorca Holiday 30th April 2015 : S’Albefura
Mallorca Holiday 29th April 2015 : La Gola and Boquer Valley I was supposed to have a quiet day reading and doing a bit of shopping for the necessaries while Anne took the bus to Pollenca Town so I thought I would walk into town via the La Gola mini reserve. There had been a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
