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  1. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    Well, folks, 2010 ends and this is the last post of my "diary". It has been great fun to do but must confess the last couple of weeks I was exhausted with my work and family duties and I had no energy to go out to try to find new birds. Still, I leave you here with the only new bird...
  2. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    The bad weather all over Europe had to affect our bird population in some way. I've known that during my working days several interesting species appeared in my area: Red-throated Diver, Grey Phalarope, Red-breasted Merganser, Black-necked Grebe, Little Gull… and of course I missed them all...
  3. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    I've just realized my last picture uploaded was bird number 200!!! :bounce: Superb, I was starting to doubt I could achieve that aim!!! Following with my sightings, during the cold wave that had England covered with snow, we had here gales and terrible weather with some snow as well. I crossed...
  4. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    And finally the great day to visit Gallocanta and the wintering Cranes arrived!!! :bounce: I don't know how to explain with words the feeling of seeing thousands and thousands of Cranes, sometimes really close and passing flying over ours heads, simply breathtaking!!! o:) How beautiful they are...
  5. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    Almost a month without proper birding due to work and dreadful weather had me at the edge of desperation! :-O Fortunately I thought about organizing an expedition to see Cranes, a bird I didn't see in the last 5 years and I was dying to see and photograph. I asked my buddy Scottishdude from...
  6. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    As I do when I can, I join the guys of the local Birding Club in the monthly survey of Seabirds, so I'm useful at the same time I have a great time, birding in company. October is a good moth here to watch the sea, this day the variety wasn't significant but the numbers of passing birds were...
  7. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    Well, the summer season and Autumn migration are over and there are a few summer migrants that I photographed but didn't post in this thread expecting to get better pictures of them… but the chances didn't arrive, so I've decided to add them now as I feel they should be here even if the quality...
  8. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    Yes, I confess it… this day I did twitching!!! :eek!: I never do it, there is no excitement for me to go after a rarity that you know were it is and there is no "surprise factor". But this day was exceptional, by chance I met with a birding friend who is not interested in twitching either, but...
  9. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    After the Chemical Meeting, I spent the weekend in Madrid again, and as many times, I visited my two favourite places around the big city. On Saturday went to Rivas-Vaciamadrid, where I expected to take pictures of the late Dragonflies in the lagoon. But, of course, I kept an eye on the birds...
  10. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    At the beginning of September, I had to attend a Chemical Meeting in S Spain, in fact not so far from the famous Doñana N. P.! :eek!: Sadly, it was impossible for me to organize things and had time to visit the area. :-C But still, I took with me my binos and the compact camera just in case...
  11. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    Odd this, but my next bird findings took place while Butterflying!!! :eek!: Here the summer arrived late but was very hot and humid, more than usual. The Butterflies season was hence late and it was in the second half of August when we had the blast of them. So I went first to Cabo Peñas, where...
  12. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    How to make the most of a wasted day. |=)| This Sunday I had a family meal right by one of my favourite hotspots of my area, Villaviciosa. The day was bright and migration on its way… so I dealt with the family a couple of free hours on my own to check the marshes just in case something...
  13. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    And this was the last birding day during my holiday in England. And the icing on the cake, a glorious sunny morning spent in Old Moor RSPB, full of birds, butterflies, dragonflies and with wonderful company!!! :bounce: I saw more than 40 different species of birds, and this time some are new for...
  14. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    My second week in England started with sunshine! |=)| Mike took me on Monday (August the 16th) to Attemborough Nature Reserve, it was a beautiful day and there was good variety of birds there, but didn't see or snapped anything new. But I saw my first Banded Demoiselle ever! o:) There we met...
  15. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    I must admit the weather was not very kind to me in England during the holidays! :-C Still I had a great time, even if it did birdwatching a bit hard and the photographic opportunities scarce. But taking advantage of the moments with no rain and the spells of sunshine, I was taken to make...
  16. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    In the first outing of my English holiday I was taken to the famous Bempton Cliffs. Even if I knew the Puffins had already left, I was longing to see any other possible bird still breeding there. Razorbills and Guillemots had left too (:-C) but at least it had plenty of Gannets (pic a), and some...
  17. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    First day in England. I stayed in Nottingham visiting my BF friends Sandpiper and Damselfly (Mike & Carol Powell) but managed to see loads of people from BF too!!! :bounce: (In the Members Faces section of the gallery there is a pics galore of these encounters! :-O) Another BF buddy...
  18. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    And the day before leaving for England, I paid a quick visit to El Pardo, because the Spanish Sparrow and the Spanish Imperial Eagle (two specialties there) were still shamefully absent from my year list! :C But still no traces of the Imperial Eagle (starting to get really worried about it...
  19. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    Well, folks, here I am after my August holiday! o:) I've been first to Madrid, then about 12 days in England and then back to my area for a few days before starting work. All quite interesting with a few superb surprises! In the time available in Madrid before taking the plane to England, I did...
  20. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    One of the places I visit at least once a year for birding and butterflying is the Canyon of Rio Lobos, a paradise for wildlife that I long for going to since every year starts. Finally I managed to arrange a visit with my birding team and there we had an impressive day for Butterflies, with...
  21. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    After the Nightjars survey I joined the guys of the local birding club again to do the monthly survey of Seabirds in Faro Vidio. July was not expected to have much to see but surprisingly we saw quite a few interesting things. First surprise was to see the local Peregrines raised one kid, which...
  22. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    Well, folks, June arrived and as usual birding starts to be a bit slow in my area, while the Butterflies season starts to be very exciting. Besides, I've seen almost all the birds I could see by this time of the year, so I've concentrate my efforts (when work and the weather allowed, which was...
  23. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    And in this day, the last of Scottishdude's visit, I had one of the most remarkable birding days I remember!!! :bounce: We went to Sepulveda, for him to locate several lifer Larks, as this place is, as I call it, "Larks Paradise". The amazing thing was that we managed to see and photograph the 7...
  24. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    Next day things didn’t turn out very well, we felt we weren't going to find the Bluethroat after another early morning attempt so we changed completely the plans to look for more lifers for my buddy. We headed towards the Sierra de Madrid, to the mountain pass of Navacerrada, a very reliable...
  25. madamcoolpix

    Marian's bird "illustrated diary" 2010 (Spain, mainly)

    After the visit to the Plataforma de Gredos, that same day we went to the Puerto de la Peña Negra in the afternoon, still trying to find the Bluethroat. This should be another good place for them, but we missed it again. :-C But we spotted two different species of Pipits, something we didn't...
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