Port and Wey: 27 Apr 25

Day 5.

Puig de Sant Marti

It was a tough walk to the summit which is 817 feet above sea level, especially as the climb to the top was around 3 miles of twisting and often steep rough track.

Birds Recorded:
Kestrel

Yellow-legged Gull

Wood Pigeon

Collared Dove

Parakeet sp.

Swift

Hoopoe

Bee-eater

2 Crag Martin

8 Nightingale

Blackbird

Sardinian Warbler

Willow Warbler

1 Firecrest

Balearic Spotted Flycatcher

Great Tit

Blue Tit

Wren

5 Balearic Woodchat Shrike (Lanius senator badius)

Raven

House Sparrow

Chaffinch

Goldfinch

Greenfinch

Serin

5 Red Crossbill

A Balearic Woodchat Shrike

And another............

.............and another one. A new species for me.

A Sardinian Warbler searching.........

............for food for youngsters that were calling close-by.

And a Balearic Spotted Flycatcher

Reptiles Recorded:

1 Large Psammodromus (Psammodromus algirus)

1 Moorish Gecko (Tarentola mauritanica)

This is..................

.........a Large Psammodromus (Psammodromus algirus).

More on this lizard here.

And this is a Moorish Gecko (Tarentola mauritanica). It is also known as the Common Wall Gecko. More on this Gecko here.

Butterflies Recorded:

Southern Small White (Pieris mannii)

Southern Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria aegeria)

African Monarch (Danaus chrysippus)

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

Cleopatra (Gonepteryx cleopatra balearica) - Sub-species

Lang's Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous)

This very orange Southern Speckled Wood is the sub-species Pararge aegeria aegeria. These here are other forms of Speckled Woods.

A Cleopatra

Moths Recorded:

Pine Processionary moth (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) - nest

Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum)

One of the many Pine Processionary moth (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) "nests" we came across in the forest leading up to Puig de Sant Martí here. More on this moth here and here.

This is a.............

..............Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) hiding in the undergrowth.

Beetles and Bugs Recorded:

Red-necked Comb-clawed beetle (Heliotaurus ruficollis)

This is a Red-necked Comb-clawed beetle (Heliotaurus ruficollis) . More on this beetle here.

Plants Recorded:

Montpelier Rock Rose (Cistus monspeliensis)

Hairy Canary Clover (Lotus dorycnium)

Italian gladioli (Gladiolus italicus)

Montpelier Rock Rose (Cistus monspeliensis). More on this plant here and here.

And this large clump of flowers is............

...........Hairy Canary Clover (Lotus dorycnium). More on this plant here.

This is an............

..............Italian gladioli (Gladiolus italicus)

General photos:

Looking back towards..........

.........our Hotel as we head off to the top of Puig de Sant Martí. Incidentally Puig de Sant Martí translated in English is Mount St. Martin or Hill of St. Martin.

As we walked on up, we had good views of...........

...........s'Albufera National Park.

Still climbing.

But at the top we had fantastic views of.......

.................Port de Pollença to the north.

And...........

...................s'Albufera National Park again to the south.

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Platja de Muro

Before our walk up Puig de Sant Marti, Dawn and I had a morning stroll along the shopping mall in Platja de Muro. There was one location where there was a bit of wasteland, waiting to be built on. In this little oasis there was a Sardinian Warbler, butterflies, damselflies, butterflies and beetles etc.