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  • 8th February 2025 – Olhão, Portugal

    8th February 2025 – Olhão, Portugal

    A two hour flight from Bristol, a 15 minute transfer from Faro and we are transported into what seems like another world and, in particular, a different climate.

    On the first morning of our stay, within a 2 minute walk from our hotel, we are strolling amongst nature in the Salinas de Olhão with colourful wild flowers, huge numbers of waders, lots of small passerines flitting around almost at our feet and with the sun on our backs.

    Salinas de Olhão

    Black-winged stilt

    Redshank

    Redshank photo bombing a group of dunlin

    Walks through the former salt pans

    Black-tailed godwit centre stage

    Little egret

    Chiffchaff

    Sardinian warbler

    Zitting cisticola

    Chiffchaff

    Black-winged stilt

    Slender-billed gull

    Black-headed gull

    Slender-billed gull

    Kentish plover

    Sanderling

    Greenshank, common ringed plover, sanderling and redshank (back to front)

    Common ringed plover centre stage

    Common sandpiper

    I could go on – there was so much to see.