19th September 2023 – Isla Cristina, Spain

Non birding holiday indeed!

This morning we took part in our second optional trip: birdwatching around the salt pans and in and around the town we are staying in. Isla Cristina is the second largest fishing port in Andalusia.

We saw some fabulous birds without having to travel too much.

This is the impressive list of the birds I saw and many of them were close enough to get photographs:

Greater Flamingo, Black-winged Stilt, Pied Avocet, Eurasian Oystercatcher, Kentish Plover, Common Ringed Plover, Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew Sandpiper, Sanderling, Little Stint, Common Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Common Redshank, Slender-billed Gull, Audouin’s Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Little Tern, Caspian Tern, Sandwich Tern, Great Cormorant, Gray Heron, Little Egret, Eurasian Spoonbill, Booted Eagle, Iberian Gray Shrike, Eurasian Magpie, Crested Lark, Eurasian Crag-Martin, Red-rumped Swallow, Red-rumped Swallow, Willow Warbler, Short-toed Treecreeper, Spotless Starling, European Pied Flycatcher, Whinchat, Northern Wheatear, Western Yellow Wagtail, European Goldfinch

Some of my favourite photos:

Slideshow of some of my photos from this morning: