July 29th

On another very warm and sunny morning we walked from Shuart to the Plumpudding lagoon and back. Birds we counted included 3 Ring-necked Parakeets, 1 Blackcap, 4 Green Woodpeckers, 14 Goldfinches, 20 Chaffinches, 34 Linnets, 6 Whitethroats, 4 Reed Warblers, 5 Cetti's Warblers, 4 Sedge Warblers, 14 Swallows, 2 Stonechats, 4 Oystercatchers, 1 Whimbrel, 16 Sanderling, 2 Sandwich Terns, 8 Turnstone, 36 Ringed Plovers, 12 Mediterranean Gulls, 220 Black-headed Gulls, 1 juvenile Yellow-legged Gull flying W, 1 adult Common Gull, 1 Little Egret and 1 Chiffchaffs.

Shuart Drove

Family of juvenile Swallows