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The ecological disaster of 1998 – as poisonous sludge of an iron ore mine flooded the area of Doñana – had consequences. A so called green belt was developed.

And with this photo of the male corn bunting ...

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… I would like to invite you to have a closer look at this green belt and its inhabitants:

Corredor verde
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And with this colorful photo ...

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... we would like to invite you to the 5th chapter of Birgits travel report, which guides us to the wonderfull Dehesa de Abajo:

Dehesa de Abajao
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Imagine: a few days ago Birgit had a flock of 49 bee eaters at her biotope and in the neighborhood Directly above the frogs pond the colorful flock was sitting and hunting and Birgit did not have light for making photos! But anyhow was just enthralled and later after the flock was sitting at the neighbors Birgit had the contrast from the mountains.

Please have a look:

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Migration of bee eaters in the homey biotope

What an experience without driving even one kilometer!
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Birgit and her friend went to Fuente de Piedra where meanwhile 20 000 flamingos arrived for breeding:

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Here you can find a short report:

Fuente de Piedra April 29 2010
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Sooo many experiences at the weekend! Birgit is still exhausted from all the emotions which she will tell about one by one.

Here is the new animal story about the stork jumping in the air with joy:

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Here is the whole story! Birgit and her friends laughed themselves to tears about this playful stork:

A stork delirious with joy!
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:wave: Thank you, Brit and Birgit for those amazing photos!

The White stork Delirious of Joy is just.. :laugh: Congratulations, a great serie!! :thumbs:
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Yesterday was an unbelievable exciting day at the homey biotope, because imagine, tens of thousands of honey buzzards are nowadays returning from Africa and hundreds of them were flying over the biotope!

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That was emotion pure!

Who wants to see honey buzzards in all shades can find it here:

Honey buzzards above the homey biotope!!!
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Birgit and her friends go from one surprise to the next! Because not only the honey buzzards caused a stir, but also these small cute red-rumped swallows:

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This photo report no swallow-lover should miss! Birgit is still over the moon with the experienced!

Red-rumped swallows looking for feathers in the homey biotope
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Thanks, dear Olga. I´m happy you enjoyed it! :loveshower:
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Yesterday Birgit had been at the Guadalhorce-mouth ...

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... and she was lucky enough to see some rare birds there:

Guadalhorce-mouth May 4 2010
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They are not as colourful as the bee eaters, also cannot come close to the song of the nightingales, but just have a look …

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.... how beautiful the love between collard doves is! :)

That’s how beautiful love can be!
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Because Birgits planned Extremadura-journey could not yet be started because of Maxls (=German shepherd) health problems they had been on the weekend at the Strait of Gibraltar at a very special place which they did not know until now, the Faro de Punta Camero:

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What was to be seen and experienced there you can find here:

Faro de Punta Carnero

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Yesterday Birgit had been once again at the Guadalhorce where at the moment the clouded yellows are flying if they can avoid the attacks of the bee-eaters:

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Who wants to have a look at the short photo reports – here it is:

Guadalhorce-mouth May 18 2010
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Some photos from Birgits homey biotope:

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More smileys to see :

Biotope - May 20 2010
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Birgit is back from a wonderful excursion to Extremadura. They went to look for great bustards but much more than these magpies didn’t come in front of their lens in this widths

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But all white stork friends will enjoy and all who expect great bustards or European rollers got to be brave, - like Birgit had to be! Enjoy reading:

Extremadura - La Serena
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Birgit had been at the Guadalhorce where not only Mum gadwall duck proudly presented her growing daughters and sons:

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And here is a short photo report from the day. With chicks of the rather seldom white-headed ducks:

Guadalhorce-mouth June 1 2010
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Birgit made again trip to the Guadalhorce where the black-winged stilts see red nowadays ...

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The reason for that are of course the chicks of the stilts. In that case nobody has to look for anything in their territory!

Who wants to see photos from this remarkable and exciting day, please look here:

The black-winged stilts see red!
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On Friday we had been at the flamingos

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at the

Lagoon of Fuente de Piedra

My family from Germany was totally enthralled!
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Here a few photos from red-rumped swallows ...

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... in the ...

realm of the thousand feathers
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