Monday 3 August 2009

Spain – Clot de Galvany (Fresh Water Marsh) – 7th July 2009

This is a full blown reserve sandwiched in to a fairly built up area, but quite large and well worth the time to explore. Although our main viewing was focused around the considerable pools there is a lot of open “bondo” and wooded areas to walk through and explore, in these we saw Wryneck, Black Wheatear, Spotless Starling, Southern Grey Shrike, Woodchat Shrike and Fan-tailed Warbler. Moving to the waters and right in front of us on the edge from one of the hides we had the most amazing views of Purple Gallinule along with Marbled Duck, White-headed Duck, Black-winged Stilt, Wood Sandpiper, Red-rumped Swallow and Great Reed Warbler.
Life bird count: 389 Year bird count: 221 Month bird count: 68

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