IngloriousBustards · @ingloriousBustards
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Whilst the flow continued over our assembled heads, a dead cow fed over 80 Eurasian Griffon Vultures near our watchpoint and this Rüppell’s Vulture drifted in to our view for our guests !

Offshore 4 Fin Whales cruised to the west !

#migratory #vagrant #flywaybirding #doyouflyway #ingloriousbustards #avianafricaweek

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IngloriousBustards · @ingloriousBustards
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With well over 5,000 Black Kites crossing the divide here yesterday and nearly 2,000 White , Booted and Short-toed Egyptian , European Honey - this juvenile Griffon joined the party attempting it’s “youth-dispersal” to the but turning back to have a rest and another attempt !

#storks #eagles #vultures #buzzard #vulture #migration #sahel #flywaybirding #milanosnegros #ingloriousbustards

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A superb flow of Black today crossing to Africa including this juv attempting it for the first time with a band of 86 White also making the crossing.

An early Black Stork attempted to cross as both Booted and Short-toed continually build in numbers ! 😊

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#kites #storks #eagles #flywaybirding #thestraitsofgibraltar #ingloriousbustards #birding #raptors #milanosnegros

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Arrival for our guests yesterday and straight to the flow of migratory soaring !

We watched as lines of Black Kites cruised out into The as swirling masses of White Stork arrived overhead to also make their journey into Africa 😊

#birds #straits #flywaybirding #milanosnegros #migration #ingloriousbustards

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With a strengthening wind today Black Kites amassed around the valleys of The attempting to cross but many waiting for better conditions. As Booted and Short-toed Eagles joined their growing numbers, a group of 178 White Storks showed them how it's done!

#poniente #straits #flywaybirding #milanosnegros #ciguenas #milanada #ingloriousbustards #followthestorks #thisway #followme #migration #birding #vismig #birdwatch

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We’ve taken to the mountains of the Sierra de for a few days among constantly singing Ortolan , Northern , Rufous-tailed Rock Thrushes, the all blue-throated Iberian , Iberian Pied and Citril 😊

#gredos #buntings #wheatears #bluethroats #flycatchers #finches #flywaybirding #gobirding #ingloriousbustards #birders #birding

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One of the key stand out highlights for our guests and friends yesterday was being literally enveloped in swirling masses of low flying Little Swift !

Here’s one just leaving the nesting ! Little flying perfection! 😊

#colony #moulting #flywaybirding #ingloriousbustards #swifts

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Great day for our guests and friends in the organic and extensively managed vineyards of ! Here we got crippling encounters with Rufous-tailed Scrub Robins!

#trebujena #alzacola #flywaybirding #ingloriousbustards

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This stunning little Ancient Murrelet was found recently on el Rio Odiel and being the 1st record for Spain and only the 3rd for Western Palearctic we paid it due homage today !

Normally at home in the northern Pacific Rim, from China to British Columbia it is an incredibly rare pioneer to !

Thanks to Roland Bekkers for this once in a lifetime find and to our colleagues and friends for up to the minute news! 😊

#vagrant #spain #flywaybirding #littlemurres #merguloantiguo #ingloriousbustards

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Some great this week here in The

The last European Honey continue to cross into , Balearic and Scopoli’s criss-cross the divide, host the buzzing colony of Little Terns and Collared and Isabelline busily sing from the 😊

#daytours #straits #buzzards #europe #shearwaters #wetlands #pratincoles #warblers #dehesa #flywaybirding #ingloriousbustards #showmethehoney

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Awesome day witnessing the of European Honey with a flow in over our heads with guests here in The yesterday - also crossing the divide here Short-toed Eagles, Booted Eagles and a flow of 766 Black Kites that the two !

#migration #buzzards #straits #14km #united #continents #flywaybirding #ingloriousbustards #birding #torredelfraile

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Yesterday our guests arrived from Naturetrek Wildlife Holidays to witness the amazing European Honey Buzzard migration here !

We stopped at our chosen watchpoint on the way to the accommodation as the wind dropped and a flow of 148 European Honey Buzzards cruised over our heads in just 30 mins!

Guess what?…..today more!

#flywaybirding #ingloriousbustards #levante #naturetrek

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It’s hard to briefly tear ourselves from The but ….

….This picture taken moments after a female walked right past us and this sign with guests in

Other standout highlights today also included Lesser-spotted Woodpeckers, Eurasian Wryneck, masses of European Bee-eaters, Eurasian Golden Orioles, Collared Pratincoles and more !! 😊

#straits #iberian #lynx #donana #flywaybirding #ingloriousbustards #birding #birders #lynxeffect

Last updated 2 years ago

Our group from Bangor University were surveying wetland sites of The yesterday but a highlight for many was a visit to the Northern Bald Ibis colony !

We spent over an hour in their company discussing conservation efforts for the species, their status, history, behaviours and ecology 😊

#straits #flywayeducation #flywaybirding #ingloriousbustards

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A fabulous first morning for our visitors from Bangor University here at the epicentre of !

First as Iberian Chiff-chaffs sang and Hawfinch called we found 3 in-your-face Eurasian Golden Oriole and then we located a singing Yellow-browed Warbler among the Common Firecrests !

….and that was only the first 30 mins! 😳

#avianmigration #flywaybirding #migration #ingloriousbustards #birding

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It’s definitely European Bee-eater time here in The now as we are among the peak of their

It’s impossible not to notice them noisily navigating the divide here between Africa and Europe and they are seemingly everywhere ! 😊

#straits #spring #migration #flywaybirding #beeeaters #ingloriousbustards

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Whilst we’ve been in the flow of soaring this week with guests from Naturetrek Wildlife Holidays we’ve also had some great experiences with the massive colony of Collared noisily fending off potential , while Kentish scuttled among them, copulating Lesser Kestrels and on the sea beautiful encounters with Long-finned Pilot Whales !

#bird #migration #pratincoles #predators #plovers #flywaybirding #ingloriousbustards #naturetrek

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Crossing expanses of sea for these migrants is !

This visibly exhausted Short-toed crossing in over guests from Naturetrek Wildlife Holidays - they must come here, the narrowest point btwn & , at just it still clearly presents a huge challenge !

#soaring #wellhard #eagle #africa #europe #14km #flywaybirding #avianmigration #ingloriousbustards #naturetrek #birders #birding #vismig

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Whilst a river of soaring pass over the heads of our guests from Naturetrek Wildlife Holidays it’s important to also check for the smaller tran-Saharan migratory wonders !

Yesterday one tiny bush was temporary home for Common Redstarts (vid), Western Subalpine Warblers, Western Bonelli’s Warbler, Willow Warbler, Garden Warbler with Tawny Pipit, Western Black-eared Wheatears and Woodchat Shrikes within metres!

#migratory #birds #avianmigration #birders #ingloriousbustards #flywaybirding

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