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    Monte Gordo and Castro Marim area, Nov 2023

    Monte Gordo area, 13 to 22 November 2023 Another trip on foot and bicycle around the Monte Gordo / Castro Marim area. Warm and sunny every day. Despite being a bit restricted this time due to bad knees, old age etc, we saw 85 species. Most sightings were similar to previous visits (see our...
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    Monte Gordo, March 2023

    Our first visit after a 3-year absence, cycling and walking locally from 12 to 26 March. We saw 100 species, albeit that one was an escape! Notable (for us) sightings included Black-necked Grebes (five on the main saltpans), Ospreys (two on the mudflats from Vila Real harbour, one on the...
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    Monte Gordo March 2020

    Monte Gordo, March 2020 Another good visit, birding by bicycle and on foot. We had 94 species in our 10 days before early repatriation. Our best sightings were at Monte Gordo woods (west) (aka Aldeia Nova Lake). On our first visit there, there was a pair of Garganey (with the male in superb...
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    Monte Gordo - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker and Osprey

    Monte Gordo - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker and Osprey 22 October 2019: Good view of a female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in Monte Gordo woods (west) - an unusual sighting here? 18 October 2019: Adult Osprey on what appeared to be a recently-erected wooden platform in Castro Marim saltpan...
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    Chameleons and birds, Monte Gordo, Algarve

    Despite mixed weather, we had a productive time birding by bicycle and on foot from Monte Gordo from 11th to 23rd October. The non-avian highlight was 3 chameleons basking in the sun on the fence of the tennis court at the Vasco da Gama hotel, where there were also Hoopoe, Sardinian Warbler...
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    Kos, May 2018

    Kos, May 2018 We had a week in Kos from 5th May 2018. No doubt more species were seen by the organised birding tours that were there at the time (Wise Birding and Ornitholidays), but we did our own thing on foot and by bicycle from our base in Tigaki. Even without professional guides and with...
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    Castro Marim - Little Bustards and Stone-curlews

    We had excellent sightings of many Little Bustards and Stone-curlews in early November 2017 at two sites. They may well be reliable sites in future:- 1) Near the entrance to the saltworks. Go up the well-surfaced track from the N125-6 road between Castro Marim and Sao Bartolomeu (just south...
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