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

Offshore 4 Fin Whales cruised to the west !

#FlywayBirding #DoYouFlyway #ingloriousbustards #AvianAfricaWeek

With well over 5,000 Black Kites crossing the divide here yesterday and nearly 2,000 White #Storks, Booted and Short-toed #Eagles Egyptian #Vultures, European Honey #Buzzard - this juvenile Griffon #Vulture joined the #migration party attempting it’s “youth-dispersal” to the #Sahel but turning back to have a rest and another attempt !

#FlywayBirding #milanosnegros #ingloriousbustards

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

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

#FlywayBirding #TheStraitsofGibraltar #ingloriousbustards #Birding #Raptors #milanosnegros🦅

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

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

#FlywayBirding #milanosnegros #Migration #ingloriousbustards

With a strengthening #poniente wind today Black Kites amassed around the valleys of The #Straits 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!

#FlywayBirding #milanosnegros #cigueñas #milanada #ingloriousbustards #FollowTheStorks #Thisway #Followme #Migration #Birding #VisMig #Birdwatch

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

#FlywayBirding #GoBirding #ingloriousbustards #Birders #Birding

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 #colony ! Little flying #moulting perfection! 😊

#FlywayBirding #ingloriousbustards #Swifts

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

#Alzacola #FlywayBirding #IngloriousBustards

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 #vagrant pioneer to #Spain!

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

#FlywayBirding #LittleMurres #MérguloAntiguo #IngloriousBustards

Some great #DayTours this week here in The #Straits

The last European Honey #Buzzards continue to cross into #Europe, Balearic and Scopoli’s #Shearwaters criss-cross the divide, #wetlands host the buzzing colony of Little Terns and Collared #Pratincoles and Isabelline #Warblers busily sing from the #dehesa 😊

#FlywayBirding #ingloriousbustards #showmethehoney

Awesome day witnessing the #migration of European Honey #Buzzards with a flow in over our heads with guests here in The #Straits yesterday - also crossing the #14km divide here Short-toed Eagles, Booted Eagles and a flow of 766 Black Kites that #united the two #continents!

#FlywayBirding #ingloriousbustards #Birding #TorredelFraile

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

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

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

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

#FlywayBirding #ingloriousbustards #Birding #Birders #LynxEffect

Our group from Bangor University were surveying wetland sites of The #Straits 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 😊

#FlywayEducation #FlywayBirding #IngloriousBustards

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

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! 😳

#FlywayBirding #migration #ingloriousbustards #Birding

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

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

#FlywayBirding #BeeEaters #ingloriousbustards

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

#FlywayBirding #ingloriousbustards #Naturetrek

A fabulous massive flow of Booted #Eagles crossing into #Europe here these days !

Eagles everywhere !

#TheEaglesarecoming #FlywayBirding #Birding #Birders #Birding #TheStraits #IngloriousBustards

Crossing expanses of sea for these #soaring migrants is #wellhard!

This visibly exhausted Short-toed #Eagle crossing in over guests from Naturetrek Wildlife Holidays - they must come here, the narrowest point btwn #Africa & #Europe, at just #14km it still clearly presents a huge challenge !

#FlywayBirding #AvianMigration #IngloriousBustards #AvianMigration #Naturetrek #Birders #Birding #Vismig

Whilst a river of soaring #migratory #Birds 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!

#AvianMigration #Birders #IngloriousBustards #FlywayBirding