Mallorca Holiday April – May 2015 Summary Guide Books The two books I relied on were, firstly, Dave Gosney’s book ““Finding Birds in Mallorca” (which comes with a DVD of the sites in the book and some of the birds you can see at them and, secondly, “A Birding Tourist’s Guide to Majorca” by Maties…
Mallorca Holiday 3rd May 2015 : Formentor and C’an Cuarassa
Mallorca Holiday 30th April 2015 : S’Albefura
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 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…
Laughing Gull at New Brighton : 22nd February 2015 After getting lucky with the Long-eared Owl at Burton Mere Wetlands, we decided to head off to New Brighton for the last high tide day of February (10.1 metres at 1.27pm). We got there around 1pm so we had half an hour before high tide. As…
Long-eared Owl at Burton Mere Wetlands : 22nd February 2014 While we were on holiday in Lanzarote I had been monitoring some of the sightings in and around Manchester and two in particular jumped out at me. The first was a roosting Long-eared Owl that had been at Burton Mere Wetlands and the second was…
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 : 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…
