School Trip Discovery

I was out at 5am this morning waving off my oldest (12 year old) son who was going on his first school trip where they are staying away for a few nights. The lucky guy's going to the fabulous Sierra de Cazorla in northern Andalucia (near Jaen) - they will have a fab time. Anyway while I was standing there I heard a familiar call and a couple of toots later a Scop's Owl flew over. So once they had gone I walked along the paseo again whistling and saw at least 3 birds, which is fantastic.

West Latvia Short Break

Just returned from an excellent short break to West Latvia, where we had many fantastic experiences including 8 species of woodpecker, Pygmy Owl, Nutcracker, Hazel Grouse, Red breasted Flycatcher, Icterine, Savi's, Great Reed, Grasshopper, Marsh Warblers, Lesser Spotted & White tailed Eagles, Rough legged Buzzard, White winged, Black & Caspian Terns, 100+ Wood Sandpipers, summer plumage Ruff and Spotted Redshanks, a Wolf kill, Wild Boar, Smooth Snake, Slow Worm, Camberwell Beauty, Map Butterfly, 100's of Four spotted Chaser Dragonflies, plus lots more. A trip report will be published soon.

Trip Report

Today I finally completed my trip report for an excellent week with keen birdwatchers Andy Bates and Dave Stanbridge, who came out to Spain for a Valencia Short Break with an addition of two extra days in the Madrid Province. A great week that sprung up plenty of pleasant surprises.

To read the report please follow this link - here