Travel Nature shots: Alentejo Area

This was the only day we had a guide so that we could travel around covering a very big area or try to we managed 300km of it.This area is mainly protected by SPEA (Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves) & the LPN (Liga de Proteção de Natureza).So a early start for us being picked up at 6.30 and a very long day in front of us not returning back to our hotel until 22.30.A lot of sites visited but was told not to mention them as most have rare breeding birds.
So during a 16hr birding tour birds included a total of 12 Raptors but 13 was the target only Bonelli's Eagle being the one we did dip on.
Birds included
Short-toed Eagle
Spanish Imperial Eagle
Booted Eagle
Montague's Harrier
Golden Eagle
Black Vulture
Griffon Vulture
Lesser Kestrel (Last year the colony had 482 breeding pairs)
Common Kestrel
Common Buzzard
Black Kite
Black-shouldered Kite
Little Owl
Rufous-tailed Bush Robin
Sardinian Warbler
Thekla Lark
Calandra Lark
Short-toed Lark
Crested Lark
Wood Lark
Stonechat
Nightingale
Red-knobbed Coot
Coot
Great Bustard
Little Bustard
Tawny Pipit
Stone Curlew
Black-bellied Sandgrouse
Red-legged Partridge
Collared Pratincole
Iberian Grey Shrike
Southern Grey Shrike
Woodchat Shrike
White Stork
Spanish Sparrow
Grey Heron
Cattle Egret
European Bee-eater
European Roller
Spotless Starling
Carrion Crow
Azure wing Magpie
Hoopoe
Red-rumped Swallow
Pallid Swift
Swift
House Martin
Swallow
Magpie
Blue Rock Thrush
Kingfisher
Little Ringed Plover
Golden Oriole
Corn Bunting
Black-wing Stilt
Mallard
Greenfinch
Blackbird
House Sparrow
Turtle Dove
Quail
Fan-tailed Warbler
Woodpigeon