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  1. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    Just a quick post before family commitments mean we have to leave for a while again – I had a quick trip to the Salobrar before breakfast again, all very pleasant but very quiet. The only bird of any interest to me was the wood sandpiper, a year tick for me to nicely round off this visit. And I...
  2. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    Lovely photos, thanks Phil, best wishes to you with your move and good birding in the UK!
  3. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    Here are the stone curlew that went missing from my post yesterday...
  4. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    I made it to S'Albufera today after a quick stop at the Depuradora and, in a word, had a lovely day out. It started out with three hoopoes flying up in front of the car on the way to the Dep, a nightingale singing as we strolled down to the platform, followed by plenty of decent birds to watch...
  5. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    Thank you Kevin and Mike – I was hoping someone would say pratincole. The more I looked the more sure I became. It is really good to have confirmation from two others. Thanks again – I just wish I had seen it from the front!!!
  6. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    I went for a quick walk at shortly after sunrise at the Salobrar yesterday and while I didn't recognise anything out of the ordinary there, I did spot two birds disappearing into the distance and was too slow to get a decent photo. However, this photo is all I have, clearly not a small bird and...
  7. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    This morning at the Cape: I arrived very early hoping to photograph a stunning sunrise, or at least a sunrise, but the golden orb didn't put in an appearance till about 9.30 as a white blob to be seen through the mist. And it was in the wrong place. Not where I expected at all. (I know, there's...
  8. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    Cheers Mike, that‘s really helpful!
  9. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    I have just spent a pleasurable few hours photographing flying creatures in our garden, then trying to identify them. My knowledge of butterflies was in a state of perfect and comprehensive ignorance but now thanks to Mike Swiss's links to info material I have been able to recognise the ones I...
  10. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    Back again after two months away and where was I this morning? Salobrar de Campos of course, just after sunrise, the expected warming sunshine not really materialising at about 8 or 9°C. But there was life there – the piping of the waders and chatter of flamingos and shelduck, lower water levels...
  11. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    Glad to see you're out and about again – see you soon, packed up and ready to go this afternoon!:):):)
  12. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    I love seeing the swifts come whizzing in over the Salobrar but I won't be there on the island until early April. So good luck down there in your wellies, but be careful, it gets slippery!:ROFLMAO:
  13. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    Thank you Ian – I kind of wanted it to be a scaup as well, but I am reliably informed by Mike that both are quite rare here, and either one is a year tick for me anyway, so I guess I can't lose. Comforting for me to know that there was a certain amount of doubt among experts though! :-)
  14. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    Thank you Maties – best wishes to you too!
  15. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    Just wondering a bit about our mystery duck from yesterday: I have just pinched these photos from Merlin for comparison. That’s tufted duck, scaup and “our” duck in that order. Ours doesn’t have any sign of a tuft and the headshape resembles the scaup more for me. I would welcome any comments...
  16. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    Yep😊
  17. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    Today MikeM and I ventured north to S'Albufera to see if I could find some birds absent in my neck of the woods. Long story short and despite the almost complete absence of waders it was a terrific day out. My year ticks kept on clicking up (easy when you start from a low base), and we were...
  18. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    Lovely pictures Erik!
  19. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    What a day today! We met Erik and Kirsten at Son Real and immediately saw two vltures and two ravens passing overhead. I had my camera set up wrong from the previous day so the photos are not as good as they should have been, they passed really close overhead. I first thought they were black...
  20. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    I managed to get one or two waders on my list this morning with an early trip to the Salobrar. Weird weather, by the way, 6° at home in Campos, ten minutes' drive away outside the hotel Font Santa it was 12°! During an all together agreeable stroll along the track I saw, among others, little...
  21. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    This morning, MikeM and I were rewarded for a chilly trip to the Cape with a spectacular performance involving four gannets and numbers of Balearic shearwaters – we had just clocked the shearwaters – Mike stopped counting at 40 – when the gannets appeared, crisscrossing between the mainland and...
  22. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    I had a quick walk along the east coast today from S'Algar Bay, Portocolom, while my wife was painting a picture of the lovely boathouses in the port. From the description of the area in the Birding Tourist's Guide to Mallorca, plenty of birdlife is promised, especially in winter. I was a little...
  23. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    Hi H., My sympathies with manuals for digital equipment, they never tell you what you need to know in easily understandable form. I have been using Olympus/OMSystem gear for some years now and I would never have known how to get half decent photos, especially in difficult conditions, without...
  24. derban

    Mallorca 2024

    For me the new year's birding in Mallorca began this morning at 8 with ice on the windscreen – the Campos Depression was colder than everywhere else again. I had decided on a trip to the Cape, and I had the road to myself on the drive down from Ses Salines. There were what seemed like dozens of...
  25. derban

    Mallorca 2023

    Lovely photos as ever Phil. Can‘t wait to get back and get amongst them!
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