Trip Report: Birding around Bubion - late summer raptors in the Alpujarras

After last Friday’s scouting mission to the white villages we returned to Bubion again today, to meet a family keen to explore the local area and hoping to learn more about some of the local bird species they might encounter during their stay here… With the midday heat a bit too much to bear we [...]

 
A drive to Otivar and the Rio Verde…daytripping with the birdwatchalpujarras team 17th August 2009

It’s a sunny Monday morning and the birdwatchalpujarras crew are on an away day. The offer of a walk up the Rio Verde valley with a friend down in Otivar had got Kiersten, Richard and I on the road nice and early, and I was looking forward to a drive through what I had been [...]