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13th October 2025 – Fuseta, Portugal

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I can’t believe how indolent we have been today. We have spent most of the day sitting in the garden of our holiday let watching (and in my case photographing) birds. I can’t remember ever having a day like it.

There’s been so much to see and I don’t really know how to go about recording what we have seen. I will just publish a sample of my photographs and tell you that most of the action has taken place at a distance of less than 20 metres from where we have been sitting. The day ended when a kingfisher perched in the garden less than 3 metres from us, before scuttling off down the river. I didn’t have a camera in my hand at the time as I was holding my evening aperitif!

My first photo – before sun rise

The rising sun from the balcony

Eurasian spoonbill in the dawn light

Early morning grey heron

Down to the garden

The salt workers have been busy at it all day

Yellow-legged gull taking its breakfast off home

Sandwich tern – the only tern of the day

Ruddy turnstone

Crested lark

Common redshank

Common sandpiper

Ruddy turnstone

Sanderling

Greenshank and redshank

Blue throat

Eurasian spoonbill

Eurasian spoonbill

Sanderling

Yellow-legged gull and fish

I’m afraid the yellow-legged gull wins this encounter

The eyes have it

Not a swallow – just the yellow-legged gull

Black-winged stilt

Curlew sandpiper

Zitting cisticola in flight

Little egret

Dunlin

Common ringed plover

Supper time now and a day free from birding tomorrow!

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9 responses to “13th October 2025 – Fuseta, Portugal”

  1. northernlass99 Avatar
    northernlass99

    The light in that flying spoonbill shot is beautiful. Love it!

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      martintayler

      Thank you so much for commenting.

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        northernlass99

        You’re very welcome!

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  2. Michael Sammut Avatar
    Michael Sammut

    Beautiful collection. Some fantastic flight shots, Martin. 👌

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      martintayler

      Thank you, Michael. Your comment is much appreciated.

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  3. Michael Sammut Avatar
    Michael Sammut

    You’re welcome, Martin.

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  4. Mike Powell Avatar
    Mike Powell

    The in-flight shots are amazing and I am completely blown away at the size of the fish that the gull caught. Great job in capturing the action. Wow!

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      martintayler

      Thanks, Mike. What I couldn’t believe is that the gull took off as soon as it had swallowed the fish.

      Martin Tayler

      Martin’s bird & nature blog: http://martinsbirdblog.com

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  5. chrisbrewster2013 Avatar
    chrisbrewster2013

    You’ve seen some fabulous birds Martin, and Kingfisher a garden tick too! Just a query about your House Sparrow in flight – did you get good views of it when it landed?

    Sent from my iPad

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