Today I ventured into Murcia for a walk around the Mar Menor, a very overcast day which didn't really produce the rain which had threatend in occasional showers. The star birds of the day included a juv Short-tord Eagle and 4 Richards Pipit pictured below, although the pipits showed well in the scope, they wouldn't really let me close enough to photograph them, hence the poor picture!
Richards Pipit
Other species recorded today included,
Slender-billed Gull (12, see above), Black-necked Grebe (86 in a single group, 100+ in total), Great-crested Grebe (200+), Shovelar (21), Sandwich Tern (20+), Turnstone (13), Stone Curlew (18), Dunlin (42), Little Stint (17), Redshank (6), Spotted Redshank (1), Greater Flamingo (9), Avocet (14), Black-tailed Godwit (4), Greenshank (1) and Kentish Plover (12).
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