Well, this is definitely my kind of birding. We spent the morning walking along The Passadiços de Alvor, the series of raised walkways that pass through the protected sand dunes of the Ria de Alvor Nature Reserve west of Portimāo.
We heard and then saw linnets, crested lark, zitting cisticolas, goldfinch and both male and female stonechats amongst the dunes. On the estuary we could see lots of cormorants, oystercatchers, whimbrel and curlew, common sandpiper and greenshank. I believe I could also make out an osprey feeding on its prey on the sand bank.
A really splendid morning. However, my recollection might have been influenced by the delicious lunch we had in a typical Portuguese restaurant next to the pretty fishing port of Alvor in the company of two other birders from our group who joined us on the trip.
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