El parque de Reina Sofía #LaLinea is jumping right now! Fab urban #flyway #Birding before farewells at #Gibraltar Airport for guests from @naturetrektours Encounters with Common #Redstarts and both European Pied and Spotted #Flycatchers - the park an ornithological gold mine

Our last full day with our guests from @naturetrektours was a blast! We started by finding the gorgeous long-staying adult Rüppell´s Vulture among the Griffon Vulture colony We were then among masses of House and Sand Martins, Barn and Red-rumped Swallows feeding around our

Y´day we moved from the campo watching Northern Wheatears and thousands of mesmerising gorgeous Spanish #Sparrows to #UrbanBirding in #Tarifa. A Little #Owl peered at us and the loneliest Common #Bulbul in the world hung out with us! As the rain stopped and thermal activity

With the tail end of Hurricane #Gabrielle sweeping across The #Straits bringing with it much needed rain for the campo we took ourselves west to the #Marismas where we encountered masses of migratory #Shorebirds Here highlights of Ruff, Spotted #Redshanks, Wood #Sandpipers and

With the wind dropping we took our guests from @naturetrektours to a higher more central watchpoint to intercept the flow of migratory #Birds and we were in the flow! This juvenile Blue Rock Thrush was there to greet us! Soon 203 Short-toed Eagles (pics) began to cross with

⚠️The EAGLES are coming!⚠️ A day among the #Eagles for our guests from @naturetrektours today! Their first day here was very much among the flow of migratory soaring #Birds! and what a day! 608 Booted Eagles and 339 Short-toed Eagles soared just overhead and at eye level and

With soaring #Birds flowing out over The #Straits we had to tear ourselves away and check out the western side of The Straits among a #Shorebird extravaganza with guests from @naturetrektours Almost the first in our optics was a vagrant Lesser Yellowlegs (found by our friend

Following days of strong gusting levante the gateway opened yesterday for soaring migratory #Birds to power across The #Straits and into Africa! We positioned ourselves high in the Los Alcornocales at a private site where commanding views of the Eastern side of The Straits gave

With the strong levante wind making the crossing of The #Straits even more challenging for soaring migratory #Birds many have been cruising the coast looking for a way to cross or lingering in the campo waiting for their moment. We were among them yesterday with guests from

With the #levante wind hampering the crossings of soaring #Birds into #Africa we positioned ourselves at the sweet spot where those attempting the crossing would come low over us ....and we weren't disappointed! The flow of European Honey Buzzards, Booted and Short-toed

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With the #levante kicking in, the western side of The #Straits and the marismas provided tranquil encounters with an ever increasing number of migratory #Shorebirds for guests from @naturetrektours Here dapper-looking Curlew #Sandpipers and Little #Stints walked among resident

We were among the flow of migratory #Birds again with more guests from @naturetrektours Short-toed and Booted #Eagles lingered before taking the leap into The #Straits right out from our watchpoint joined by Egyptian #Vultures and Black #Storks and then the #HoneyTrain began to

Our final day with guests from @naturetrektours and the campo was hopping with small passerine migrants such as this European Pied Flycatcher as we got into position among the flow of migratory soaring #Birds A steady flow of European Honey Buzzards right over our heads as

Y´day our guests from @naturetrektours were out in The #Straits as migratory raptors crossed over Long-finned Pilot Whales and Bottlenose Dolphins, our lunch spot was swarmed with migrating European Bee-eaters and a late afternoon encounter with the ultra rare - 2 Rüppell´s

Conditions allowed for a great passage of soaring migratory #Birds yesterday for guests @naturetrektours As European Honey Buzzards streamed out high we got ourselves high alongside them as they left their roosts and continued their journey towards Africa right over us! Their

Following the strong #levante and with storms in the #Alboran and forming over the nearby Rif Mountains the window of opportunity for migrating soaring #Birds was flowing on Sunday! 947 European Honey Buzzards poured over our heads in the few hours of observation, alongside 322