20th October 2025 – Fuseta, Portugal

Before our last full day here in Fuseta on The Algarve we thought about what birds we had not seen that we would normally expect to see. The standouts were white wagtail, whimbrel and oyster catcher. We couldn’t believe our luck when we went for a walk this morning and saw all three. We only saw one of each and I only managed to get photos of the whimbrel and the oystercatcher. I was also pleased to get a photo of a cattle egret which had also eluded me until today, although I had seen them on a taxi ride.

Nothing much this evening except a zitting cisticola

And so, I took a couple of landscapes from the balcony to end our wonderful stay.

Below is the list of birds that we have seen during our stay in Fuseta. Surprisingly we haven’t seen any raptors. Perhaps we have been watching the floor too much to check that we don’t trip up!

Common Shelduck
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Mallard
Feral Pigeon
Common Woodpigeon
Collared Dove
Common Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Black-winged Stilt
Pied Avocet
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Common Ringed Plover
Kentish Plover
Whimbrel
Black-tailed Godwit
Common Sandpiper
Common Redshank
Common Greenshank
Ruddy Turnstone
Curlew Sandpiper
Sanderling
Dunlin
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Yellow-legged Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Sandwich Tern
Greater Flamingo
Little Grebe
White Stork
Great Cormorant
Eurasian Spoonbill
Little Egret
Western Cattle-Egret
Great White Egret
Grey Heron
Common Kingfisher
Iberian Magpie
Common Magpie
Eurasian Skylark
Crested Lark
Zitting Cisticola
Common Chiffchaff
Sardinian Warbler
Eurasian Blackbird
Bluethroat
European Stonechat
Common Waxbill
House Sparrow
Pied Wagtail/White Wagtail