New Bird for the Posada Molino del Canto

Today, a male a Hen Harrier, flying over the Posada Molino del Canto. With this record, the Checklist is now 82 species.

Lista de Aves desde la Posada Molino del Canto

Through of nature reserve

A new tour through the Parque Natural de las Hoces del Alto Ebro y Rudrón nature reserve looking for birds. A new birders enjoyed of the birds of northern Burgos.

 Birding in the canyons

57 species. The more remarkable records: four Hen Harriers, one Peregrine Falcon attacking to Common Buzzard, a pair of Honey Buzzard, flying over the village of Presillas. European Turtle Dove, Common Quail and four species of Buntings, Corn, Cirl, Rock and Yellowhammer.

Checklist of the day 

European Honey-buzzard
Black Kite
Egyptian Vulture
Griffon Vulture
Hen Harrier
Common Buzzard
Common Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Common Quail
Wood Pigeon
European Turtle Dove
Common Cuckoo
Common Swift
Alpine Swift
Green Woodpecker
Woodlark
Skylark
Crag Martin
House Martin
Barn Swallow
Twany Pipit
Tree Pipit
White Wagtail
Grey Wagtail
Wren
Dunnock
Robin
Black Redstart
Common Redstart
Common Stonechat
Northern Wheatear
Blackbird
Song Thrush
Mistle Thrush
Common Whitethroat
Blackcap
Bonelli's Warbler
Iberian Chiffchaff
Firecrest
Spotted Flycatcher
Coal Tit
Blue Tit
Jay
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Raven
Spotless Starling
House Sparrow
Rock Sparrow
Common Chaffinch
European Serin
Linnet
Common Bullfinch
Yellowhammer
Cirl Bunting
Rock Bunting
Corn Bunting

 

Northern Wheatear

 

 House Sparrow

Barn Swallow

Thanks to Chad and Janet by their interest in the birds of Burgos, two good new birders.
 

Lagoon of Miranda de Ebro

The province of Burgos is not characterized to have many wetlands, but the few that it has are really interesting.
One of that I have followed since I began with birdwatching is the lagoon complex next to the city of Miranda de Ebro.
Three small lagoons very next to the city and surrounded by highways, but that even so are able to lodge a good amount of species of birds. Luckily, from year 2002 a good sum of money has been reversed to prepare them, and now one of them has an observatory.
These lagoons were on the verge of disappearing, as it happened with other many in Spain, used like tip, burned the vegetation…
Now it is possible to be enjoyed a good number of birds and the proximity to the city causes that they are possible to be used by the schools to bring back to consciousness to the children and to teach to them to the importance of the water, wetlands and birds.
The other day in a two hours I could see the next birds:

Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Common Buzzard
Great Cormorant
Eurasian Coot
Common Moorhen
Corn Bunting
Common Red Bunting (3)
Marsh Harrier (1)
Common Snipe (16)
Barn Swallow
Cetti’s Warbler
Magpie
White Stork
European Greenfinch

Census of Great Bustard II

The morning has left very pretty, almost cleared and without frost, there was 1.5ºC when we began the census to 9.00h.
No wind and the visibility was wonderful, in the majority of the flocks has been possible to know the sex of the birds.

Hoping to finish analyzing the collected data, we can indicate that the amount of wintering Great Bustards in the region the west of the province of Burgos is at least 266 birds, 27 more than the last year.

Photo by José Pedro Portillo

An equipment that has looked for Great Bustards in the province of Palencia, to the other side of the river Pisuerga and it has not found any, this is also an important data.

Photo by José Pedro Portillo

But not only it has been to count Great Bustards, the different equipment has been able to enjoy the tremendous number of raptors that there is in the zone, mainly Common Kestrels, Common Buzzard and Red Kite, but also has been able to observe Peregrine Falcon, Merlin, many Hen Herriers and some Marsh Harrier.
The cold of this week also have been let notice in the cereal plain of the region in the form of great flocks of Lapwings, with very few Golden Plover.
Other birds of the area, Skylark, Calandra Lark, Crested Lark, Corn Bunting, Cirl Bunting, Finches….

Also they have been mammalian, one of the equipment some thirty Roe Deer and another equipment a Fox.

The Birders

Information about the first census Here.