Extremadura, May 2009

Some photos from my recent trip to Extremadura.


(click on the slide show to go through to the actual gallery)

The highlight of a visit to this region of Spain must be seeing birds of prey everywhere! Look up and you will almost certainly see a Black Kite or a Griffon Vulture and if not one of those perhaps a White Stork. This is completely unlike birding in most of the UK!

Other highlights included 5 new birds for me - White-rumped Swift, Great Bustard (including a flock of 21), Little Bustard, Spanish Imperial Eagle and Western Orphean Warbler.

But what about regular views of BeeEaters, Hoopoes and Red-rumped Swallows? Scope views of male Golden Oriole? Roller? Subalpine Warbler - there are too many brilliant birds to choose from.

Then there were butterflies, dragonflies, lizards, terrapins, frogs, bats, a preying mantis, glow-worms etc. etc.

Fantastic!