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  1. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    Alpine Acc was a target bird for this trip, photos of one, anyway. I'd never managed to get a pic in loads of visits to mountains in the south and in the Pyrenees. I've only had the briefest of views of them, my first one at El Torcal in February in 2007. another one landed on the edge of the...
  2. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    We got lucky with the weather. We flew into Malaga in cloud and spots of rain on Saturday 4th January, but it was sunny by the time we got to Estepona and apart from some coastal cloud the following day (clear skies inland, where we went looking for alpine accentor) we had sunshine every day for...
  3. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    I had hoped to pop in to see Eddy in hospital this week, but sadly I can confirm that since mid August Eddy is no longer with us. I was shown a photo of his grave a few days ago. A good man, sadly missed by the Spanish birders I’ve spoken to this week. I often went to Algarrobo for no other...
  4. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    Just had a message this afternoon to say that Eddy is still alive, but very ill in hospital. There is apparently some confusion over the announcement yesterday.
  5. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    Goodbye Eddy. The world has lost a fine man and I have lost a friend.
  6. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    A couple of shots of the black vulture I saw coming in from the Strait when I was at the car park above the urbanisation at Punta Carnero on 1st May. After it came in from the sea with four or five griffons I lost sight of it as it passed behind a hill. I was amazed when it reappeared right...
  7. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    I've just been on to Mastercard asking why I'd heard no more. They said that the complaint had been raised incorrectly by them when I complained in November, he couldn't understand why I'd been paid the £49.99 in the way that I was and he'd be reinstating the outstanding £30 to my account...
  8. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    We've just made arrangements for spring and autumn trips to the Strait. Flights and digs are booked and I'll be organising car hires soon. I heard nothing more from Do You Spain since they promised to send me an invoice breakdown in October for the extra 80 quid that was taken from my card...
  9. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    As the complaint is on-going Jos and I'm still to receive an explanation I'll leave them anonymous for the time being. They do appear to be well-known in various reports, though I've personally not had trouble with them in the past.
  10. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    More car hire blues. It's getting to be an annual event. After my experience last year when Marbesol took 20 euros from my card for 'extra cleaning' of a clean car, which I reported to the hire agency and to Mastercard, I removed that company from my 'approved' list. I had a trouble-free hire...
  11. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    Thanks Simon. Just to elaborate what I was getting at in one of the posts I made while I was over there in September, this is the information that was presented last year on a daily basis at Cazalla, covering movement counts from there and Algarrobo on the preceding day. It is excellent...
  12. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    Great bloke, Javi.
  13. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    I thought too that after a busy weekend on 2nd/3rd September that migration seemed to fizzle out. I noticed in my last week to 16th September it was particularly quiet and that black kites were almost absent. I do know that large numbers of them crossed in August, but they were well down on...
  14. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    I was there for my normal three week autumn visit until last Saturday (16th). Those figures confirm my feeling on the ground that last week was very quiet with 16,500 birds, even quieter than the 27,000 of the week before that. My first week there were 58,000 through (32,000 honeys) and...
  15. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    If that's the same figures as they are posting on Facebook, John it's the combined weekly totals of Cazalla and Algarrobo added together. It's useful, but not as useful to visitors on the Strait as the daily charts that were pinned up at Cazalla by the Migres staff last year, which showed the...
  16. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    A male pallid harrier flew across the front of my car at La Janda this afternoon. Sadly, instead of hunting the rice field to my left it kept on going towards the N340. Shortly after that a red kite was turning over the ridge above the cattle farm. I think that's the first red kite I've seen...
  17. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    The car parking is the same as before Alf, nominally plenty of space, but with the new access it attracts more casual visitors, so it can get a bit tight.
  18. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    This is the new access, photo from May 2016. The exit towards Tarifa is equally luxurious.
  19. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    Nice gentle westerly breeze today and Punta Carnero looked the place to be. Light but steady movement late morning of black kites and a few honey buzzards, with a supplement of booted eagles. Just before midday these were replaced by groups of short-toed eagles and griffon vultures, which soon...
  20. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    I missed the best of the action yesterday. The wind changed to Easterly after the almost calm westerly air of Saturday. It was just a light breath at Los Barrios, but when I got to Punta Comorro it was blowing a hoolie. Not much was happening with migration and I reasoned that maybe the birds...
  21. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    After some days of me wondering where they all were, the honey buzzards were streaming in in their thousands this afternoon in unusually calm conditions on the Strait. Spectacular!
  22. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    After coming to a dead end with the car hire complaint I decided to let the bank know what was going on, just to keep them informed and I let Do You Spain know that I had done so. As I said above I wasn't bothered about the 20 euros, it was the principle. This was Do You Spain's response; 'If...
  23. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    Car Hire Blues For several years now I've been using Do You Spain as agents for car hire on my frequent visits to the various parts of Spain. In the past they have seemed to fit the bill and they helped out a couple of years ago when RecordGo included a clause in the small print that meant that...
  24. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    Update on what I wrote a couple of days ago. It appears recent rains have put a bit of water into Fuente de Piedra. As I said the lake was bone dry at the end of August, as were the nearby lagunas around Campillos. I've just seen a report of a lesser flamingo at Fuente de Piedra on 28th October...
  25. Barred Wobbler

    Birdwatching in Straits of Gibraltar & La Janda

    Unless there is a serious amount of rainfall Fuente de Piedra is a write-off. It was dry as a bone when I flew into Malaga at the end of August and I was told by various people that the flamingos had failed to breed at all this year. I had Marbled Duck on the same trip and also in 2015 at the...
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