4 May 25

Day 12

Carrer Can Vauma Wildlife Corridor

And yet another visit to this area and yet again new bird species to add to my ever growing Mallorca list.

Today's new birds were: Booted Eagle, Red-legged Partridge, Curlew, Sand Martin and Western Subalpine Warbler.

The only downer was that large black clouds appeared from behind the mountains and we only just made it back to the hotel before the heavens opened up.


Birds Recorded:
Cormorant
Mallard
1 Booted Eagle
2 Red-legged Partridge
1 Curlew
Yellow-legged Gull
Audouin's Gull
Common Tern
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Swift
Hoopoe (heard)
20+ Sand Martin
7 Nightingale
Blackbird
Cetti's Warbler
Zitting Cisticola
2 Western Subalpine Warbler
Sardinian Warbler
Firecrest
Balearic Spotted Flycatcher
Great Tit
Blue Tit
2 Raven
House Sparrow
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Serin

This Cormorant was still on its favourite island in the middle of Es Llac Gran here.

A Booted Eagle over..........

.............the Hill of St Martin here. This time in Slo-mo.

As I walked passed this field here............

........these two Red-legged Partridges took off and ended up in the woods here.

One of several Swifts flying over the woods.

A Nightingale singing at this location here. In the background is another Nightingale singing, a Hoopoe and a Western Subalpine Warbler.

And along the track a Zitting Cisticola singing from this conifer. This warbler also goes by the name of Fan-tailed Warbler.

Butterflies Recorded:

Southern Small White (Pieris mannii)

Southern Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria aegeria)

African Monarch (Danaus chrysippus)

Cleopatra (Gonepteryx cleopatra balearica) - Sub-species

A Southern Small White

And a Cleopatra.

Bees Recorded:
Spanish Honey Bee

Wasps, Ichneumon Wasps, Parasitic Wasps and Gall Wasps Recorded:

Mirror Orchid Wasp (Dasyscolia ciliata)

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

...............Mirror Orchid Wasp (Dasyscolia ciliata)

Hoverflies Recorded:
1 hoverfly sp.


Flies, Craneflies, Gnats and Midges Recorded:
Many unidentified flies


Bugs and Beetles Recorded:

White Spotted Rose Chafer (Oxythyrea funesta)

General Shots:

St Martin's Hill viewed from here.

A small bay in Es Llac Gran here.

The end of the road here.

Aircraft today:

This is Pilatus PC-12/45 owned by Lions Air............

..........it is on its way from Palma De Mallorca to.................. 

...........Hohenems Dornbirn Airport (Austria). More photos of this aircraft here.