1 May 25

Day 9.

Beach

It was a morning spent beach combing from just east of the hotel down to where the canal de Siurana meets the sea.

What was really noticeable were the thousands of dead Velellas washed up along the whole length of the beach.

Birds Recorded:
Shearwater sp.

2 Cormorant

Cattle Egret

Little Egret

Mallard

Yellow-legged Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Audouin's Gull

Common Tern

Wood Pigeon

Collared Dove

Bee-eater

Blackbird

Sardinian Warbler

House Sparrow

Goldfinch

Greenfinch

Serin

A Shearwater sp. in Alcudia Bay

A Lesser Black backed Gull

I think its fair enough to say that this female House Sparrow is used to being around humans.

Butterflies Recorded:

1 Southern Small White (Artogeia mannii)

3 Red Admiral - two deceased

A Southern Small White (Artogeia mannii)

A Red Admiral

Washed up onto the beach was this wing from a Red Admiral..................

...................and possibly another Red Admiral

Moths Recorded:
moth sp.

It wasn't just dead butterflies we found on the beach but also this moth sp.

Bees Recorded:

Violet Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa violacea)

A Violet Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa violacea)

Also recorded:

1000's Velella (velella velella)

Goose Barnacles

There were thousands of dead........

.................By-the-Wind Sailors or Velella washed up on the beach. 

Not strictly a jellyfish but a colonial hydroid. More on this hydroid here and here.

Goose Barnacles also washed up onto the beach. More on this on this crustacean here.

What I believe to be a Dog Whelk (Nucella lapillus), which we came across on the seaward side of the Siurana Canal breakwater here.

Plants Recorded:
Devil's Apple (Solanum linnaeanum)

This very thorny plant is called Devil's Apple (Solanum linnaeanum) and belongs to the......

........nightshade species of plants. It is native to many African counties and can be found in Mallorca. It produces tomato-like fruits which can be fatal if eaten. In Mallorca the country folk call it "Bolas del Dimoni" which translated means "Balls of the Demon or Devil". More on this plant here, here and here.

Ships Recorded today:

This is the Italian Passenger/Ro-Ro Cargo Ship "Mega Express" tied up in Alcudia Port. More on this vessel here.

This is the Spanish Passenger/Ro-Ro Cargo Ship "Jaume III" on its way from Ciudadela (Menorca) to Alcudia. More on this vessel here.

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Hotel

It was another bat fiesta tonight, with the star of the show being a Long-fingered bat (Myotis capaccinii), one of smallest bats in Mallorca.