Raptor Migration 2nd post

A few more photos of the raptor migration .

Booted Eagle

Booted Eagle

Booted Eagle

Black Kite

Black Kite

Black Kite

Montagus Harrier

Montagus Harrier

Montagus Harrier

Short-Toed Eagle

Osprey

Black Kite

Montagus Harrier

Montagus Harrier

Booted Eagle

A few more very enjoyable hours spent observing  this awesome event.
Bye for  now and thanks for visiting our blog.

Raptor Migration.

Gibraltar has to be one of the best locations to observe the bird migration at this time of the year, always bearing in mind that we need the wind blowing a strong south westerly.

We have had some great views and on a couple of days the numbers of birds 
coming over were tremendous, I would say impossible to count all that was 
in front of us.

Well here are a few photos of some of what we saw.

Sparrowhawk

Short-Toed Eagle

Short-Toed Eagle

Short-Toed Eagle

Short-Toed Eagle

Short-Toed Eagle

Short-Toed Eagle

Short-Toed Eagle

Sparrowhawk

Short-Toed Eagle

Egyptian Vulture

 

Egyptian Vulture

Black Kite

Black Kite

Marsh Harrier

Booted Eagle

Booted Eagle

Booted Eagle

Marsh Harrier

Lanner Falcon (juvenile)

Egyptian Vulture

Booted Eagle

Black Kite

Egyptian Vulture

Short-Toed Eagle

We have spent several fantastic hours observing the raptor migration.
We will be back soon.

Palmones, Los Lances beach and La janda.

A great three days of bird watching.

We spent a few hours at Palmones estuary some great views of waders

Here are a few photos...

Eurasian spoonbill

Dunlin

Ringed plover

Ringed plover

Redshank

Little ringed plover

Dunlin

Common sandpiper

Redshank

Sandwich terns

Common sandpiper

• Dunlin
• Ringed plover 
• Little ringed plover
• Common sandpiper
• Turnstone
• Lesser blackbacked gull
• Blackheaded gull
• Osprey
• Cormorant
• Gery plover
• Eurasian spoonbill

A couple of days later we went down to Los lances beach. 

Here we saw some gulls, terns and a few more waders.

Cormorant

Audouins gull

Grey plovers

Blackheaded gulls

Turnstone

Blackheaded gull

Audouins gull

Dunlins

Sanderlings

Audouins gull

Caspian tern

Caspian tern

Caspian tern

Sandwich terns

Then on to La Janda, and here are some photos of what we saw.

Hoopoe

Hen harrier

Goldfinch

Common snipe

Common snipe

Hoopoe

Eurasian spoonbill

Eurasian spoonbill

Little owl

Green sandpiper

Greater spotted eagle

Greater spotted eagle

Greater spotted eagle

Greater spotted eagle

Greater spotted eagle

Hoopoe

Hoopoe

Don't forget to check out the photo galleries.
 

We will be posting soon with some photos of the amazing bird migration we are so privileged to see over Gibaltar.