For a long time I have been promising myself a serious search for the elusive Mediterranean Chameleon, and when Iberian Lynx in Andalucia guest Wayne Atkinson wanted an addition to this short break, it all possible!
So with just one day we set off from Malaga early Sunday morning and got to the town mid-morning with plenty of time to find our target - or so we thought!
The botanical garden is only small but these gorgeous creatures are canny elusive and it took the lovely Andrea who worked there to point them out, much to our shame!!! In all we saw four individuals including one sizable male, which was fabulous and "thank you so much" to Andrea and the rest of the staff for all their help in finding them.
After this we returned slowly to Malaga and the weather prevented us from finding any Spanish Ibex at El Torcal (hopefully next week), but the last hour at the Rio Guadalhorce NR and beach was superb with Arctic & Great Skuas, Turnstone plus lots of Common Scoter, Gannets etc. However it was Wayne who caused the greatest excitement by finding the first of four Short-eared Owls hunting over the open areas at dusk and my 141st bird of the year!
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