Three Man Road Trip

1st - 7th April 2009 :- During this week I was joined by Andy Bates & Dave Stanbridge from Kent, they have been to Spain several times before and were here for some specific targets. The first four days were spent like a Valencian Short Break (featured here) with the last two days being spent around Madrid. Although we couldn't find all their target species we did do very well by seeing Lesser Flamingo, Great White Egrets, Purple Heron, Glossy Ibis, Spoonbill, Garganey, White headed & Marbled Ducks, Black Vulture, Spanish Imperial, Golden & Short toed Eagles, Lesser Kestrel, Quail, Purple Gallinule, Red knobbed Coot, Great & Little Bustard, Stone Curlew, Collared Pratincole, Grey Phalarope, Audouin's & Slender billed Gulls, Gull billed Terns, Pin tailed & Black bellied Sandgrouse, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Scop's Owl, Lesser Spotted & Iberian Green Woodpeckers, Calandra, Short toed & Thekla Larks, Water Pipit, Black eared Wheatear, Redwing, Moustached, Savi's, Great Reed, Western Bonelli's, Sub-alpine Warblers, Iberian Chiffchaff, Penduline Tit, Azure winged Magpie, Brambling, Citril Finch and Rock Bunting. A full trip report will follow shortly.