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  1. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    Today i have been whole day by the north, starting at Cala Sant Vicenç looking for a Puffin, it never appears, but sometime i will found it just there floating on the water. After failed the puffin (normal) i have had a nice day with some very interesting observations: At la Gola i met a...
  2. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    On Saturday at the Son Bosc Depuradora (Albufera), I saw a dark duck that didn't look like a tufted pochard to me, and that at first I thought was like a Greater scaup, although some things didn't fit with it (all my pictures were so far away and almost sunset, so bad to identify a group so much...
  3. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    Hello It is needed to be very careful with Merlin, it is a great, super great tool, but for exemple, there are some sounds (sub-sounds) of the Robin, the Merlin identify as Hawfinch and Grey flycatcher. I have got at least 7 reports of hawfinch and 8 o 10 of grey flycatcher, until i discovered...
  4. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    Hello, Yes sadly I think it is not the Pacific Golden Plover
  5. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    Today at the Cap Salines the day started poor, with a very clear and blue sky, but after midday we moved to the "Wall of fame" and then suddenly the day changed to a very Great day. -83 Kestrels -48 Honey Buzzars -39 Booted eagle -37 Marsh harrier -15 Hobby -2 Osprey -1 Buzzard -1 Eleonora -1...
  6. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    It is a Majorcan people's right, it is a public path and we wont stop fighting until we recover this right for all the citizens.
  7. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    It is a male of Marsh harrier.
  8. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    It is just 10 m away, you start to walk just there, and 800 m to arrive the dam
  9. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    The most experts birders in Spain they are confirming it is a Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva), what an interesting discussion.
  10. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    Just now there is a discussion about been a Pacific golden plover or an American Golden plover. We will wait for the decission.
  11. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    As Mike said, yesterday it was reported an American Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica) at sa Roca hides (PN s'Albufera), as it is a mega rarity here in Mallorca and i was not far away, i went there and when I arrived it was still there. The light was very bad, with the sun very low and behing...
  12. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    The access to Ternelles valley is the biggest scandal and the biggest shame of Mallorca in the last 30 years. The path and the pass thru the valley is absolutely public and it should be free, but one of the richest families in Spain (maybe the richest of all) has it closed, by the face, with the...
  13. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    Bonelli's the best place is Mortitx Red-Knobbed coot is only possible to see at Sa Roca, Information Center s'Albufera. Purple Swamphen: Possible in Maristany, there are 2 pairs there, but quite much easier at Sa Roca Info center too. Marbled Duck, latelly they are difficult to see in Albufera...
  14. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    Hello Now, with the Formentor road been closed, the best Place is la Vall de Boquer (Boquer Valley), you can park here (be careful and dont left any objects in the car) https://goo.gl/maps/dmCNXZ25GQXR9Hq77 You have to start the trail to Cala Boquer, go beyond the big House (the gates are...
  15. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    I am glad you also found the tawny pipits, 200 times better see them in the natural than behind a dirty nail. So good the balearics family party were still there, the place i told you.
  16. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    I dont know if Maties will answer, but i am pretty sure the bird in your picture is a juvenile, born this spring and still living in the little island (where he probably has born in front of Son Real) before to leave Majorca for the next 3 years. Even more, probably these 7 youngs, are all they...
  17. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    Hello Hugh, Do you know him? did you see the picture? it is extremely rare bird for the balearics, it would be the 2nd observation in the islands, so it is kind of important to know where did he reported it. Thanks
  18. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    Hello all, yes, it is a scaped white checked pintail, they appear at the Depuradora from time to time.
  19. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    It is this completelly virgin area https://goo.gl/maps/y6px2drXfqA5ZnN1A It is a future natural park, maybe very soon. There are buses to El Toro and Son Ferrer, by this road.
  20. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    Yes, it is locked, but it is 350 m walking, so no long.
  21. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    I think she is not a Ruddy shelduck, but a Sudafrican shelduck (scaped) living there for the lasts months. Now in spring she is in love with a Shelduck male, but i am afraid he isnt in love with her.
  22. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    After 2 weeks out of the island birding in Extremadura and Andalucia, today I went out again to birding in the north and suddenly the good luck (which is not very friendly to me) has allied with me for once. I have barely entered the road to Gotmar and in the middle of the path there seemed to...
  23. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    Hi, I think it is a very friendly Audouins who likes to be on the wall at the cap Salines, with only one metal ring and very close to the people. I have fotopgraphed it several times, and one of the times it was so close i could read the metal numbers. This gull was ringed in Cabrera National...
  24. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    Hello Hi Mike, I hope you enjoying Florida!, no i did not see the marsh harrier, it was Tom Carley, i just posted in the grup the info from Ebird. Toni Soler has seen by second continuos year a Little bunting, in the Cami des Polls, (Albufera)
  25. Josep Manchado

    Mallorca 2023

    Hello all, I think we never had Laughing dove in Majorca, now in Ibiza there are 4, doing territorial defense, so probably they will bread there. Laughing dove it is an specie in a clear territorial range expansion and now they are breading in several places of Spain. Today in Albercutx tower...
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