A bright, sunny start to the day had Kiersten and I heading up into the mountains recently…only to be met by rolling, foggy clouds that brought our birdwatching day to a cold, wet and rather miserable end. Still, we managed to cobble together a day-list before the weather closed in around us, and there were [...]
It’s our first morning at the mountain refuge, run by our friend Javier in the Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche, in the Sierra de Morena range north of Seville. With the team leaving me to fend for myself later today, there was still time for Kiersten and I to take an early morning [...]
I’ve been looking forward to this for some time. Birdwatchalpujarras are heading west to explore Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche, a hilly, forested region in the Sierra de Morena range north of Seville. A wonderful opportunity to take a closer look at the Cork Oak habitat on the Extremeduran border…and a terrific chance [...]
It’s the start of another week, and we’re off out again with guests for the day. We hoped the sunny hillsides around the village would bring us a few summer favourites…and we were soon on our way up the mountain once more. Black Wheatear showed well on rocky outcrops above the road as we headed [...]
It’s Friday morning, and the Birdwatchalpujarras team are off out with a client for the day. We’re meeting our new friend Val in the village of Canar, with plans to take the mountain track up to Puente Palo, a favourite drive that will take us through a number of different habitats and hopefully bring some [...]
Kiersten returned from a mountain drive to Puente Palo with news of an encounter with another fantastic local species today. The Green Woodpecker Picus viridis is a year-long resident across the whole of southern Spain, and given the range of habitats down here in Andalucia it was a species that I always felt confident we’d [...]
Fantastic shots of a real woodland specialist today…as we round off the birdwatching month with our first ever images of the Short-toed Treecreeper! Regular readers of our posts will be familiar with this species. It replaces the very similar Treecreeper Certhia familiaris around much of the Mediterranean region, and much of what can be said [...]
It’s a bright but chilly January morning, and we’re off with local walking guide Martin Riley to explore the coniferous woodland habitat of Sierra de Huetor, a natural park to the north-east of Granada. Large expanses of the park’s forests were devastated by a huge fire in 1993, but there has been a programme of [...]
With the month rolling on we’re making the most of the October sunshine and are off up the mountainside above Lanjaron. Although many of our summer visitors have now headed south for the warmth of African wintering grounds there’s still plenty to see, and there’s always the chance of something new and unusual… As ever, [...]
Short-toed Treecreepers flit through the olive groves on the hillside above Lanjaron as the end of a terrific month of birdwatching approaches… There are few pairs of species as hard to tell apart as the Treecreepers…but thankfully for birdwatchers down here in Andalucia, the Treecreeper’ s range only stretches down to Northern Spain. So it [...]
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