S'Albufera National Park.
What a day in the park with some fantastic birds, especially with Black-crowned Night Heron, Squacco Heron, Purple Heron, Glossy Ibis, Greater Flamingos, Kentish Plovers, Nightingales and Savi's Warblers to name but a few.
Birds Recorded:
Cormorant
1 Black-crowned Night Heron
1 Squacco Heron
Cattle Egret
2 Purple Heron
1 Great Egret
Little Egret
8 Glossy Ibis
Greater Flamingo
Shelduck
Mallard
Gadwall
2 Red-crested Pochard
1 Marsh Harrier
Moorhen
Coot
50+ Avocet
20+ Black-winged Stilt
Ringed Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Kentish Plover
2 Greenshank
2 Green Sandpiper
6 Common Sandpiper
Black-headed Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Audouin's Gull
Common Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Swift
Hoopoe
Bee-eater
Swallow
Grey Wagtail
Blue-headed Wagtail (Motacilla flava flava)
6 Nightingale
Blackbird
2 Savi's Warbler
1 Reed Warbler
20+ Cetti's Warbler
6 Zitting Cisticola
20+ Sardinian Warbler
1 Willow Warbler
2 Balearic Spotted FlycatcherGreat Tit
House Sparrow
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Serin
A Black-crowned Night Heron in flight and then.......
...........landing on one of the trees on the opposite bank of the Siurana Canal, from where we stood here.
And I managed to video it as well.
My first ever Squacco Heron.............
...............which was looking for its next meal.
A Cattle Egret with nesting material.
A Purple Heron
This ungainly looking bird coming into land in this tree is a male Glossy Ibis.
And another Glossy Ibis in flight.
While Ostriches stick their heads in the sand, Great Flamingos do it in the water.
Ahh with their heads out of the water, these two show just how large those beaks are.
And two more in flight.
Last one.
In the foreground an Avocet rests up with two Gadwall on the water behind.
A very distant shot of a Marsh Harrier over the reedbeds.
An Avocet
In this photo are Avocets, Black-winged Stilts and 2 Shelduck
A Black-winged Stilt
A male Kentish Plover and a....................
..............female sat on her nest.
Greenshank
A Common Sandpiper
The three terns from right to left are Gull-billed Terns with a 1st year Black-headed Gull far left.
A Blue-headed Wagtail (Motacilla flava flava) and............
.............another photograph of it, before it disappeared behind the sedges.
A Sardinian Warbler.
Dragonflies and Damselflies Recorded:
Black-tailed Skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum)
Scarlet Darter (Crocothemis erythraea)
A Black-tailed Skimmer (Orthetrum cancellatum)
Butterflies Recorded:
50+ Southern Small White (Pieris mannii)
6 African Monarchs (Danaus chrysippus)
10+ Southern Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria aegeria)
1 Cleopatra (Gonepteryx cleopatra balearica) - Sub-species
1 Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous)
Butterflies of Mallorca
An African Monarch.
And this is my.............
..............first ever Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous)
Osmia sp.
Possibly one of the species of Osmia. More on bees found in the Balearic Islands here.
European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula)
An European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula)
Branched Asphodel (Asphodelus ramosus)
Purple Milk Thistle (Galactites tomentosa)
This tall plant is................
This is Purple Milk Thistle (Galactites tomentosa) and native to the Mediterranean,...........
..............especially Mallorca. It also goes by the name of Boar Thistle.
