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Amazing moving power of #FlywayBirding yesterday on our #Migration tour!

569 White Storks cruised out to Africa just metres above our heads! 570 European Honey Buzzards powered through as 222 Booted Eagles, increasing numbers of Short-toed Eagles and 274 European Bee-eaters dodged the migrating Pallid and Common Swifts!

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#TheStraits

Our crew from Bangor University were counting the soaring migrants returning to Europe across the daunting #14km of #TheStraits here today - 847 soaring #Birds logged by our #team today !

22 Black Stork
46 White Stork
1 Osprey
1 Black-winged Kite
2 Egyptian Vulture
65 Griffon Vulture
1 European Honey Buzzard
83 Short-toed Eagle
257 Booted Eagle
5 Western Marsh Harrier
4 Eurasian Sparrowhawk
360 Black Kite
1 Gibraltar Buzzard

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

Eagles everywhere !

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As we say goodbye to our guests from Naturetrek Wildlife Holidays another group arrives ! 😊

After the strong #levante we hope to be among the flow of #MigratoryMayhem today !

Here a leaping Common Dolphin that our previous guests encountered in their magical week here in #TheStraits

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More magic of #FlywayBirding for our group yesterday with migratory #Raptors passing overhead 3 Bonelli’s Eagles menacing passing soaring migrants and this one of two gorgeous Western Black-eared Wheatears !

….today more !

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A fabulous day yesterday among the #migration here for our guests !

1,833 Black Kite, 161 Booted Eagle, 107 Short-toed Eagle,2 Egyptian Vultures 29 Black Stork, 30 White Stork and more drifting over our heads!

We also got out on the sea with passing Atlantic Puffins and Scopoli's Shearwaters as we watched Long-finned Pilot Whales, Common and Bottle-nosed Dolphins.

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Yesterday evening we happened upon 700+ Black Kites and 5 Egyptian Vultures making a late in the day push for Europe and we were bang in the middle of their vortex!

What a great end to our tour for our guests !

#FlywayBirding #Birding #TheStraits #Milanosnegros #Milanada #Alimoches #AvianMigration

The Northern Bald Ibis are looking particularly awesome right now - recently arriving back to their colony and busily preparing their nests.

Lots of head bobbing displays and careful mutual preening ❤️….which goes well until someone craps on you from above !

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