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Bonelli’s Eagle Raptor hide S PA I N Outline Itinerary Day 1 Fly to Barcelona and transfer to Boumort Days 2-3 Boumort Days 4-7 Montsonís Day 8 Depart Barcelona Party Size Maximum of six clients. Accommodation Comfortable accommodation in twin/double and single rooms with private facilities. Transport By minibuses driven by the leaders. Includes All flights, meals, accommodation, transport, entry fees, services of the leaders, VAT, airport taxes and tips. that are also attracted to the bones and carcasses and, of course, Common Ravens are likely to be in attendance too. Days 4 to 7 Just as exciting will be the many opportunities for photography on the nearby steppes. This is the region where there are Calandra Larks, Little Bustards, colonies of colourful European Beeeaters and European Rollers. In the morning you will be taken to a hide to photograph the European Bee-eaters, Little Owls, Lesser Kestrels or nesting European Rollers and possibly Eurasian Hoopoe or Montagu’s Harrier. After you have been taking photographs for some hours, you will be collected in the late morning and taken back to your home base to enjoy lunch and a little free time Alternatively, instead of occupying one of the steppe hides you can opt for the Bonelli’s Eagle hide, and if time permits combine this with a short period in the nearby pool hide. The afternoon can be spent taking landscape shots or photos of other birds in the steppe areas. There will also be time for macro-photography of flowers, butterflies and other insects Richard will be taking a lap-top with him and in a relaxed atmosphere photographic critiques can be made of some of the photos you have taken during the day, plus mini-workshops given to help you improve your photographic techniques. Day 8 We return to Barcelona to catch our flight back to London, or regional airports. We arrive back in the late afternoon, where the tour concludes. Gradings Good 70 Warm to Hot Low Normal Relaxed Excellent Easy Scheduled Hide on steppe Little Bustard To make a booking please call Ornitholidays on 01794 519445 109
S PA I N Spain – The Pyrenees Montane Raptorfest Wednesday 18 June – Wednesday 25 June 2014 Principal Leader: Steve West 2014 Cost: £1,699 single room supplement £120 Madrid Bilbao Villafranca Isaba his two centre holiday allows us to explore a wide range of habitats and hopefully find some T of the more elusive birds of the Pyrenean ranges, foothills and dry steppe. At this time of year the mountains will also have a fine show of butterflies and plants to complement the avifauna. We can search oak forest to look for European Honey Buzzard, Iberian Chiffchaff and Middle Spotted Woodpecker, while the dry grasslands hold Stone Curlew, Black-bellied and Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, Greater Short-toed, Lesser Short-toed, the rare and elusive Dupont’s, Thekla and Calandra Larks, Tawny Pipit, Lesser Kestrel, Black-eared and Black Wheatears, Spectacled Warbler and European Nightjar. SPAIN Birds of prey are a particular attraction on this holiday, and over 16 species have been recorded, including Lammergeier, Golden, Short-toed and Booted Eagles, Northern Goshawk, Red and Black Kites and Montagu's Harrier. At high levels, one can expect other species, such as White-winged Snowfinch, Alpine Accentor, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Citril Finch, Alpine Chough, Ring Ouzel and Water Pipit. In the foothills and on the plains, White Stork, Black Woodpecker, Alpine Swift, European Bee-eater, Blue Rock Thrush, Eurasian Hoopoe, Crested Lark, Melodious, Dartford, Sardinian, Subalpine and Western Bonelli's Warblers, Crested Tit, Golden Oriole, Woodchat Shrike, Red-billed Chough, Rock Sparrow and Cirl, Rock and Ortolan Buntings can all be expected. In particular, we will make a special effort to find Wallcreeper, that most sought after of mountain birds. We shall make a special effort to look for some of the myriad butterflies found in this region at this time of year. Chamois and Alpine Marmot also make for two interesting additions to the mammal list. ITINERARY Days 1 to 3 We leave London on a flight to Bilbao, where we meet up with our guide Steve West and collect our mini-buses and travel to our hotel near Villafranca, where we stay for three nights. We make an early start the next morning, as out on the steppes it can get quite warm by midday. However, our time at the Bardenas Reales should be very rewarding, as target birds here include both Black-bellied and Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, virtually all the Spanish larks including even the rare Dupont’s Lark, Blackeared and Black Wheatears, Lesser Kestrel, Spectacled Warbler, Tawny Pipit and Stone Curlew, amongst others. After lunch we will head to an inland lake close to our hotel. The open cereal fields and dry terrain surrounding the lake are home to Montagu’s Harriers and some of the birds we may have seen in the morning. The lake itself is usually well-stocked with birds, which at this time of the year should include Red-crested Pochard, Great and Little Bitterns, Bearded Reedling, Purple Heron, Western Marsh Harrier, Black-necked Grebe, Cetti’s Warbler, Penduline Tit and Black-winged Stilt. For our second full day in this area we walk through a riverside woodland bursting with birdsong mainly from Cetti’s Warbler, Common Nightingale and Blackcap and look for some interesting bird species such as Eurasian Wryneck, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Common Kingfisher, Melodious Warbler, Eurasian Golden Oriole and Penduline Tit. Nearby there are wide expanses of undulating, non-irrigated farmland and rough pastures, ideal habitat to house the small remnant populations of Great and Little Bustards of Navarra. If we have any time left over after birding these areas we can investigate a Mediterranean hillside to get to grips with its typical warblers and other birdlife. Days 4 to 7 Today we travel north-east from Villafranca into the Pyrenees towards our base at Isaba in the Roncal Valley, where we stay for five nights. It’s Western Pyrenean panorama 110 For a previous tour report or further information please call: 01794 519445
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ORNITHOLIDAYS 2014 49 Our Forty-Nin
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