The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Just returned from a week in the Algarve. We stayed At Olhas d'Agua, just to the east of Albufeira and local birds were as follows

azure winged magpie
hoopoe
crested tit
great tit
lbb gull
yellow-legged gull
gannet
greenfinch
blackbird
hse sparrow
sardinian warbler
jay
pied fly
spotted fly
collared dove
cattle egret
kestrel
whinchat
turnstone
swallow
hse martin

The species count was greatly improved during 2 days out with Simon Wates. (www.algarvebirdman.com)

Sagres
cattle egret
honey buzzard x2
short-toed eagle
marsh harrier
hen harrier
sparrowhawk
buzzard
booted eagle (c40)
bonneli's eagle (c5)
kestrel
black stork (x7)
(all above from the Sagres watchpoint)
cory's shearwater
peregrine
little bustard
rock dove
stock dove
collared dove
turtle dove
little owl
hoopoe
crested lark
thekla lark
skylark
sardinian warbler
willow warbler
dartford warbler
southern grey shrike
azure winged magpie
chough (c70)
jackdaw
raven
spotless starling
hse sparrow
serin
whinchat
stonechat
fan-tailed warbler
wheatear
blackbird

Portamau rice fields
bluethroat
waxbill
yellow crowned bishop
glossy ibis (c80)
white stork (c80)
little egret
greenshank
green sandpiper
purple swamphen

Pera wetland
little egret
gey heron
spoonbill
flamingo
mallard
moorhen
purple swamphen
black-winged stilt
avocet
ringed plover
kentish plover
grey plover
little stint
dunlin
ruff
blackwit
barwit
redshank
greenshank

Alentajo
cattle egret
griffon vulture (x1)
black vulture (x4)
sparrowhawk
buzzard
spanish imperial eagle (x3)
golden eagle (x1)
bonneli's eagle (x4)
kestrel
peregrine
red-legged partridge
little bustard (x4)
great buzzard (x7)
black-bellied sandgrouse
woodpigeon
collared dove
little owl
hoopoe
calandra lark
crested lark
thekla lark
southern grey shrike
azure winged magpie
tawny pipit
stonechat
wheatear
subalpine warbler
sardinian warbler
raven
spotless starling
corn bunting

Castro Marim (saltpans) (se portugal)
little grebe
great crested grebe
black necked grebe (c10)
cormorant
little egret
cattle egret
grey heron
spoonbill
flamingo
shelduck
teal
mallard
black winged stilt
avocet
stone curlew (c18)
ringed plover
kentish plover
grey plover
sanderling
littla stint
dunlin
ruff
blackwit
spotted redshank
redshank
greenshank
green sandpiper
common sandpiper
turnstone
med gull
audouin's gull
lbb gull
yellow legged gull
caspian tern
sandwich tern
hse martin
redstart
fan-tailed arbler
willow warbler

Obviously the hotel location was not very productive but the two days out were very rewarding, if somewhat tiring. (7am - 9pm)

Dave & Linda

Phew makes my list of three weeks earlier look positively ordinary

Without Simon's help I would have managed about 25. The Spanish Imperial and Golden Eagles were the highlight. We waited in the heat for about an hour and then everything kicked off at once with excellent close views of both.

Dave

Dave,

I remember you had a memorable trip to the Altentajo about the same time my wife and I were in the Algarve (Vilamoura) in May-June 2009,......you were also then with Simon Wates.

Your latest lists show how important it is to get the services of a birder with 'local knowledge' for a day or two if at all possible. We did just that on our trip to Hotel Punto Umbria on the Spanish-Portuguese border in June 2008 and never regretted it.....our bird list just grew and grew.

Freddy