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Mallorca 2024
It's a dilemma...best I came up with is Delphinium staphisagria type but hard to tell..sorry- Mcnswiss2
- Post #649
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
Derban..any sign of Red Footed or Lesser Kestrel at White Plains?- Mcnswiss2
- Post #642
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
I downloaded onto my ipad but now available on Google phones- Mcnswiss2
- Post #623
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Mallorca 2024
Cheers Stew..hope yor wait is not so long! I also use Sunbirds Dragonflyid app ( paid) You can select even Balearic region. I love the illustrations by Richard Lewington- Mcnswiss2
- Post #620
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
Hi Derban Glad to be of help. Moth is Palm Moth..what a beauty. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paysandisia_archon Regarding you photos..are you taking them in RAW which are too large for this blog. I use inaturalist app for recognition of all things bright and beautiful.- Mcnswiss2
- Post #616
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
Good/ Bad news and Good/ Bad News...I have left the Island but Mike Montier will be back soon to repair/create the damage. Here for 8 days of which maybe 3 were for birding. Still possible to get nearly 100 birds species. Places visited included White Plains (2), Albufera, Albuferata(2), Son...- Mcnswiss2
- Post #613
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
I think most likely two Tailed Pasha butterfly but I'm too scared to tell her!- Mcnswiss2
- Post #612
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
Honeym commented on this in 2012 in this forum( I was a mere child then) Hi Rach Camberwell Beauty is on the list of butterflies for Mallorca but mainly as a result of Fernández-Rubio (1991) who included it as a possible vagrant. One was stated to have been seen in flight at Cap de Ses Salines...- Mcnswiss2
- Post #611
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
I also failed to get a photo of the Camberwell Beauty that my Wife saw in Son Real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalis_antiopa Has anybody seen one in Mallorca? They have been listed in the past. Here is one of my photos from Switzerland.- Mcnswiss2
- Post #610
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
Sunday morning walk around S'Albufereta before lunch. Some 60 Greater Flamingos enjoying the sunshine, however the nesting Common terns were attacking them if they strolled near their nests. Several Avocets and Black Winged Stilts also nesting and many of their chicks were enjoying the day. 6...- Mcnswiss2
- Post #609
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
However the best bird that turned up was my target Bird…the Turtle Dove. Feeling pleased with myself, I almost tripped over as a possible Sparrowhawk flew passed me into a tree to gorge its prey..I panicked and tried for the photo and missed the bird…Sigh..- Mcnswiss2
- Post #607
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
Another public Finca that has delivered in the past is Son Real. We decided to spend a few hours on Saturday. Normally you need patience at the Hide (off Path 4 ) as birds are often reluctant to visit the small pond. However today between 13.00 and 14.00;some 20 Species turned up to drink! House...- Mcnswiss2
- Post #606
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Mallorca 2024
First visit to the open public Finca Raixa on way to Bunyola. https://raixa.conselldemallorca.es/en/ What a find! A very interesting house and information centre. And most importantly, both Griffon and Black Vultures are circling above. Birds seen in the estate included Greenfinch, Goldfinch...- Mcnswiss2
- Post #605
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
The best place for Moltoni is up at Cuber Dam. Use ebird to help guide you.- Mcnswiss2
- Post #602
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
A mornings walk up the road leading to Ternelles Valley. Weather is in high 20s and great blue skies. This is one of my favourite short walk through Farming and Mountain Environments. Many singing Serins, Blackcaps, Sardinian Warblers, House Sparrows, Blackbirds, Swifts, Goldfinch, Greenfinches...- Mcnswiss2
- Post #600
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
A little Tern reported ar Albufera today! Unfortunately I was on a walk with friends around lovely area around Llubi. I know little about this town, however it is a secret little treasure. https://www.abc-mallorca.com/llubi/ The countryside around the town is very attractive to Birds and...- Mcnswiss2
- Post #597
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
Breaking News! Declarado un incendio de grandes dimensiones en s’Albufera (Mallorca) Declarado un incendio de grandes dimensiones en s’Albufera (Mallorca) https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2024/05/28/124265/mallorca-emergencies-wildfire-albufera.html Smoke was bellowing out as...- Mcnswiss2
- Post #595
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
A return to the White Plains to hunt for Reed Footed Falcons and Lesser Kestrels. No Eleonoras around this time and many Kestrels were very active but we failed to see both target birds. The Wheatfields had still not been harvested. Several Black Vultures, Red Kites, Booted Eagle and Marsh...- Mcnswiss2
- Post #594
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
Seems less Birders on the Island at the moment! Took a slow post lunch walk along Can Currassa Road. Of course the Rollers have past though, and no sign of Montagu’s Harrier nor Golden Orioles reported earlier. Spotless starlings at Pin 16 as ususal. Some 30 species seen including Purple Heron...- Mcnswiss2
- Post #592
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Mallorca 2024
After reading Ians report above, couldn’t wait to visit the White Plains around Maria de la Salut, despite being a Saturday and the Cup Final on later. Arranged to meet Kevin and we headed to the usual spot with high hopes. We bumped into another birder who told us that few distant Kestrels (...- Mcnswiss2
- Post #591
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
Just back to this lovely island. Peter S. had the car and offered a lift to S'Albufera. Many vistors and I thought it would be quiet. However amazing day. Glossy Ibis, Little Egrets, and Cattle Egrets everywhere. Many Flamingos, Avocets with young, Purple Herons, Shellducks, Black Winged Stilts...- Mcnswiss2
- Post #590
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
Hi Luscinia, use ebird. With that and this forum, should cover your needs- Mcnswiss2
- Post #387
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
I also use the app for id- Mcnswiss2
- Post #344
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
And here is Stews great notes on Dragonflies- Mcnswiss2
- Post #331
- Forum: Spain including the Canary & Balearic Isles
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Mallorca 2024
Hope this works- Mcnswiss2
- Post #330
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