Following on for our visit to the Sierra magina yesterday, John and jenny wainwright spent another day birding in the Andujar area in the hope of catching up with the local Lynx population.
Lynx trip 25th November 2018
A wet and very cold day.
We started off from the hotel going to Linares then
to Andujar and stopping for coffee at Los Pinos. Gaining the rustic
track to the "site", we saw a large flock of Azure-winged Magpies and
then a Common Buzzard. An Iberian Shrike was
spotted on the power lines as were Magpies. A group of four Ravens came
over the trees while on the track at the puddles a small flock of
Chaffinches were drinking.
The lower we drove the thicker the mist and it
wasn´t until we got to the new viewing shelters, that the mist started
to lift. It was then we spotted a large flock of Griffon Vultures which
passed by the viewing shelter quite close. Followed
by a Spanish Imperial Eagle, a Black Vulture and a Green Woodpecker
down in the valley. Lots of Woodpigeons and Magpies about but no Lynx.
The mist closed in again so we headed for the embalse where we saw Black
Redstart, Chaffinch, Blackbirds, Grey Heron,
Cormorant and Collared Dove.
On the way back up the Red and Fallow Deer were in
good numbers and a nice spot of the day were male and female Mouflons in
amongst the oaks. Apologies for no bird photos, but Jenny took the ones
submitted.
Shame that few birds but what birds you did see along with the deer and Mouflon. Must have been a local "thing" re the weather as we had lovely sunshine almost all the way back to the coast necessitating the use of sunglasses!
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| Fallow Deer Dama dama (PHOTO: Jenny Wainwright) |
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| Red Deer Cervus elaphus hispanicus (PHOTO: Jenny Wainwright) |
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| Mouflon Ovis orientalis musimon (PHOTO: Jenny Wainwright) |
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