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Guadalhorce-Mouth March 05 2012

What a terrific day Birgit and her birder friends spent yesterday at Fuente de Piedra! There are wintering and resting numerous Marsh Harriers, which made them to be beside themselves with joy to be able to watch there impressive flights. Both sexes and birds in every age were present.

Further unusual Highlights were the „Meloncillo“ and a secret Spotted Crake which coquettish shared for a few moments its live with Birgit and her friends:



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Fuente de Piedra – March 13 2012

Thank you Brit & Birgit for some more delicious photographs from Spain.
The migrants should be passing by soon. Lucky Birgit

Yesterday Birgit had been at the Guadalhorce, where the Birds world is beside itself. All have one “one” thing in mind. For example this nice Little Ringed Plover couple where we looked directly into their sleeping room:



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Courtship display and copulation of Little Ringed Plovers

Since December of last year nearly every day is a Common Buzzard present in Birgits garden. She is enthralled, but less the mice and some ailing Collared Dove



The best photos Birgit arranged here_

Common Buzzard in the homey garden

Those are beautiful

Yesterday Birgit had been, after a long time, again on the way! And how much did she enjoy! Look at this beautiful wedding plumage of the Cattle Egrets:



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Cattle Egrets and Raptors at La Janda

Thank you Brit & Birgit.

With pleasure, macdoum!!!

Also from the trip today Birgit brought photos. The Little Owl was a joy, but also the leery weasel:



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Little Owl and Weasel at Fuente de Piedra

It is a treat to see the creatures living in the building.

Yes, dear Alice it's so amazing! Nature is just wonderful!

Three wonderful day at the Salines of Bonanza and the Marsh areas of the Guadalquivir are behind Birgit. The thermometer reached 38.5°C and under normal circumstances Birgit would have fainted. But amongst the whole flock of birds nothing was normal and on the other hand most of the photos made from the car with running airconditioner!

Please find here the first report showing the courtship of the Yellow Wagtail …



… or the Short-toed Eagle or the numerous Waders and, and, and …

Salines of Bonanza – part 1

And here the promised photos of the Squacco Heron in its wonderful wedding dress:



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Squacco Heron in its wedding dress

Thank you for the latest edition of Birgits photographs.
How lovely the Squacco Heron looks is his wedding gear compared to the winter coat.
Such a pity the bikers disturbed the sequence of photos. Newt time maybe....
What we saw was impressive anyway.

Protection from heat, Birgit spent in the car with on high power running airconditioner or in the shadow of a small cottage with view to these rapidly hunting Little Terns:



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Little Terns in hovering flight

A little delayed some photos of the Waders from Birgits last trip to the Salines of Bonanza:



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Waders in the Salines of Bonanza

And here a few photos from Green Frogs in Birgits homey biotope. The funny scenes …



… were ending with the attempt of cannibalism. Please find the story here:

Green Frogs attempf of cannibalism

Btrit & Birgit..different mores of frogs,I looked at another of the series 'Frog eating Tadpole'
Thank you again.