I spent 20-28 March working in Lleida, but managed a few days of birding around Tarragona and the Ebro delta. These are a few pics from the trip.
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Audouin's Gull - always beauties.
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Black Kites had arrived in good numbers - this is one from Lleida rubbish dump
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Night Heron
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Great-spotted Cuckoo - early spring is great for these birds, as they are very vocal.
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Yellow-legged Gull. A bird sporting a fully white tip to p10
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Yellow-legged Gull.
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Yellow-legged Gull. This has an unusual p10 pattern, combining a rather long grey tongue (approx half the length of the exposed feather) and a fully white tip.
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A rather more typical bird.
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I spent a great couple of days in Tarragona, with Albert Cama and Joan Ferrer Obiol. Amazingly, we managed to find 3 Caspian Gulls in the harbour- two 1w birds and a 2w. These are little more than records shots, but worth posting as this species remains unusual in NE Spain. Above is one of the 1w birds, captured in a flock of Yellow-legged and Lesser Black-backed Gulls
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The same 1w bird, with a LBB
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A different 1w bird (left), showing off its jizz to full effect.
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The 2w bird - subtle yet distinctive. The p10 mirror is visible on the underside of the far wing.
1 comment:
Very nice, Chris!
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