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| Author: | David Morison [ Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Portugal |
Whilst on a quick visit to Portugal I had an opportunity to spend three hours at the Herdade dos Salgados next to Gale on the Algarve. This small reserve is a real gem and consists of shallow freshwater pools with sand beaches and marginal reedbeds. These are bordered on the North and East by the ubiquitous Portuguese golf course, on the West by barren dry scrub and the South by vegetated dunes beyond which is the Atlantic. There is a wooden walkway along the Southern side, to protect the dunes, which provides a raised viewing facility with an open hide, which has a roof platform accessed by a ladder. Seen in the 3 hrs: Little Grebe Gannet - off the beach Cormorant Cattle Egret – lots Little Egret Great White Egret Grey Heron White Stork Spoonbill Greater Flamingo Mute Swan Mallard Shoveler Pochard Tufted Duck Buzzard Marsh Harrier Peregrine Kestrel Lesser Kestrel Moorhen Purple Gallinule Coot Oystercatcher Black winged Stilt Avocet Kentish Plover Ringed Plover Golden Plover Lapwing Sanderling Greenshank Curlew BH Gull GBB Gull LBB Gull Audouin’s Gull YL Gull Caspian Tern Common Tern Cockatiel – dead, escapee? Hoopoe Thekla Lark Barn Swallow Meadow Pipit White Wagtail Grey Wagtail Wren Robin Bluethroat Redstart Black Redstart Whinchat Stonechat Blackbird Songthrush Grasshopper Warbler Cetti’s Warbler Chiffchaff – at least 40! Blackcap Sardinian Warbler Common Waxbill Greenfinch Goldfinch Serin Siskin Linnet A veritable avian feast – 67 species in less than 3 hours! Should be good during spring and autumn migrations. A site well worth a visit if you are down that way, plenty of parking either end of the walkway. David |
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