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On the beach.... This holiday was a last minute decision before some upcoming hospitalisation, so was never going to be one of my "wildlife" holidays. Still even from the luxury of a sun lounger the wildlife came to me. The "lounger list" includes flybys of Osprey, Marsh harrier, Hoopoe, Grey Heron, and of course Audouins Gull. Hotel wildlife has consisted of a Gecko sp, to be identified later. Gecko sp The weather has been consistently in the low thirties during the day and mid twenties in the evenings and nights, too warm for me... Having not visited Majorca for over 20 years I had forgotten what a nice place it is, something I noticed, and to be honest anyone from the UK should notice, there is no litter and very little dog poo lying around, just compare this to my home patch, which frankly is disgusting. Flight home is on Sunday morning, usual Blog will resume next week.

Early start... After a very hot and humid night I took myself off for an early morning walk to the Punta d'Amer nature reserve, about 3km away from the hotel. A very distant cruise ship at first light Dawn was at around 07:30 so it was still quite dark when I set off, the Blackbirds were taking advantage of the irrigated grassy areas along the se front, 11 in total. The reserve is typical marquis country with pine forest and a rocky shore line, the bird list got a bit longer this morning, with typical Majorcan species added, my bridge camera really does not handle low light conditions so photo's are few. The list consisted of Woodpigeon,100's, Goldfinch 100's Spotted Flycatcher 10's Greenfinch, Linnet, Cirl Bunting 10's, Goldcrest, Blackbird Nightingale, Sardinian Warbler, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Stonechat, Grey Heron 2,  Falcon spp, (either a Hobby or Eleonoras but it was over the horizon before I saw it) Hoopoe and a Lark?, (I'm going to t

Hot hot hot..... Today was forecast to be 36'c, it didn't feel that hot but now at 21:30 its very warm and humid.. Needless to say I've not done a great deal apart from sit in the shade, so this evening I went for a walk along the sea front and found some decent wildlife in  the form of a relatively rare gull.. Audouins Gull, so finding four together was a nice surprise. This gull is rarely found away from the coast, preferring rocky areas and spending long periods at sea a real pelagic species. adult Audouins Gull Apart from the gull the bird list is poor, (not a lot to see from the sun lounger). with Turtle Dove, Woodpigeon, Yellow legged Gull, Red Legged Partridge and Western Orphean Warbler the only other species seen. Badly lit Yellow-legged Gull Tomorrow morning will hopefully see me exploring  a nearby nature reserve called     Punta de n'Amer, which is a scrubby coastal area.