It’s another bright August morning, and the birdwatchalpujarras team are off on another day-trip on the hillsides above the village. Clear blue skies promised another sunny summer day…so to avoid the worst of the heat we made an early start, and with our new friend Ian on board we headed off on our favourite track [...]
It’s the first week of July, and with some new birdwatching friends all the way from Denmark the birdwatchalpujarras team are once again out on a day trip on the hillsides above Lanjaron. With a few of our local favourites on the wish-list for the day we headed for the first of some likely locations…and [...]
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 [...]
There’s no doubt about it, Bee Eaters have started appearing in some numbers again on the sunny lower slopes around the village. Not that they ever went away…during June I still heard their distinctive calls regularly. I suspect however that by and large they were concentrated at nesting colonies attending to the serious business of [...]
Tuesday, and it’s a working day as usual up above Lanjaron. With my shift over however I grabbed the chance to check out the flocks of Swifts swarming over the hillside above the house. I had heard but didn’t see Bee Eaters up there somewhere and was hoping for a glimpse of one of our [...]
We’re in the third week of June already and it’s getting hotter every day. Working on the mountain above the village continues to bring great birdwatching as residents and summer migrants alike busy themselves with the hard work of nesting and rearing their young. The olive groves are alive with the calls of finches…large numbers [...]
A day spent in the village this Sunday meant I was unable to watch and listen out for Bee Eaters on the hillside above Lanjaron. For the first time this Spring however I noticed just two Swifts amongst the throng of Swallows and Housemartins feeding over the village early evening. The first of the year [...]
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