Our last couple of days on The Algarve have been particularly blustery and we have restricted our birdwatching activities, as most days here, to the mornings.
Yesterday we walked around our “local” patch at the Olhão salt pans. Again, probably because the tide was very low, there wasn’t very much to see. The highlights were probably an overhead spoonbill, another Sardinian warbler and some little terns.
Eurasian spoonbillEurasian spoonbillSardinian warblerMore crabs too!Little ternI’m not surprised the small white butterfly was looking rather bedraggled in the windA pair of white storks still preparing their nestSwift – as sharp as I could get it with its speed, the wind and my old age.
Today we made our way to the area near Fuzeta where we had been a few days ago and walked through to the Arroteia birding area further east.
Pied avocets in flightSanderlingAs we sheltered from a short shower we saw our first greater flamingos of the week fly over.House martins everywhere but no easier for photographingThe reason for the salt pansGreater flamingosOur first stonechat of the weekThe best of this pool was the cacophony made by the frogsMum and ducklingsThe flamingos were quite secretiveA flock of golden ploverRuddy turnstoneSardinian warblerCommon redshankCommon sandpiperWhimbrel back at Fuzeta after lunchThe heavy showers (on the horizon here but soon to hit us) forced us to quit our post prandial stroll and head back to OlhãoFuzeta lifeboat station
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