Monday 16 March, 18:00.
A walk through the meadows of Rinlo, Ribadeo, can always be exciting to see what is happening at this time of year in the field. The truth is that in this time of uncertainty bird, though much of the hibernating already gone and the vast majority of sub-Saharan migrants have come, personally I go to the field without much faith. " If we add up all perhaps excessive temperatures for the date in which we, as the anxiety is served. This was my mental picture when I got off the car.
And I'm not mistaken too. Birds zero. But zero zero. Not more than 5 or 6 common or meadow pipits (Anthus pratensis ), 2 skylark (Alauda arvensis ), a pair of Linnet (Carduelis cannabina ) and nothing else. The tranquility was excessive, and zero signs of spring. Well, if it is the livery of the male nerd, but no more. However
suddenly everything changed, is a plis plas. It's amazing how you can alegrársele ago to one with so little in such a short space of time.
I wore one hour walk when a repeated claim to unison by several flying birds caught my attention. It was my first group Numenius phaeopus Migrator of the season. The crew of 36 birds decided to take a small tribute in a natural grassland, where their peaks and out of the earth as recently stilettos revolt by man. After snack continued their journey towards the east and I west. Observe
Whimbrel encouraged me to tempt fate a little more, so I put track-before returning home, to an area of \u200b\u200birrigation to prove the arrival of the Grasshopper Warbler (Locustella naevia ). Least to seek out the look ...
But it happened what usually happens. No trace of the find and the immediate area of \u200b\u200bexploration clearly altered by human hand with intensive mowing Silveiras -some of it served as a nesting place for Sardinian warbler (Sylvia melanocephala ) - and other vegetation.
Tucked back in the car under the windows and relax listening to the sounds of birds who still dare to sunset. And then another surprise jump in a claim. "An owl", I almost instantly. Tracking at the earliest possible means trying to locate the optimum point from which the squeal, taking the view almost automatically to a group of houses. Some inhabited, others abandoned and heavily damaged. It was in one of these, the first, where a couple of Mouchos began to stir with the sunset. Although the villagers came and went constantly in adjoining houses, the obvious owls. Neither case.
is the first pair of common owls (Athene noctua ) that located in the Marina East, local as a surprise to me. We'll see who gives himself the new breeding season for the duo.
Trying to loop the loop, and now with the last light of day, I approached the old gravel pit Barreiros, close to the Ria de Foz chance to see if I kept one last surprise. Not so, a lime and sand. Happening as it came along in the afternoon.
better not complain.
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