Saturday, 28 May 2011

Falesia Marsh

This Marsh was about a 45 minute walk or 10 minutes on the free shuttle bus,So only once did we actually walk upto this area as we wanted to try it at first light as the bus didn't run until 10am upto Vilamoura Marina.
But we found out that this area was better in the afternoon keeping the sun behind us.
We spent quite a few afternoons here,mainly me leaving Mandy sitting on the bridge while I went off and wait for
my target bird to photograph which I only got a distant record shot even though I was only standing yards away from this Great Reed Warbler but he must have known not to sit out for me.
This is a great little area to just sit on the bridge and see what comes along Purple Herons flew over every 5 minutes.
Birds seen here include
Serin
Crested Lark
House Sparrow
Red-rumped Swallow
House Martin
Swift
Pallid Swift
Azure wing Magpie
Common Waxbill
Little Bittern (4-5 Present)
Coot
Moorhen
Pochard
Gadwall
Purple Gallinule
White Stork
Purple Heron
Grey Heron
Herring Gull
Little Grebe
Great crested Grebe
Linnet
Greenfinch
Goldfinch
Black-headed Weaver
Golden Oriole
Common Kestrel
Black-shouldered Kite
Marsh Harrier
Jay
Reed Warbler
Great Reed Warbler
Cetti's Warbler
Great Tit
Collared Dove
Fan-tailed Warbler
Sardinian Warbler
Spotless Starling
Blackbird
Purple Heron

Purple Gallinule

Red-veined Darter 

Crested Lark

Jumping Fish (Mullet)

Mandy giving me the evils

Little Grebe

Little Grebe

Cetti's Warbler

Common Waxbill

Little Bittern

Little Bittern

Linnet

Purple Heron

Fan-tailed Warbler

Fan-tailed Warbler

Great Reed Warbler

Greenfinch

Linnet

Linnet

Grey Heron

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