Back Door Birding

Categoría: Birding

  • Rio Velez

    Rio Velez

    I had briefly stopped here on my way back from a coastal spin on Wednesday, and made a note to come back with the camera. The birds I was most interested in photographing were a pair of Red-rumped swallows which were flying under the iron bridge and scraping up mud from the river bed with…

  • Sierra del Norte

    Sierra del Norte

    A proper treat today, as Álvaro offered to drive us and the bikes up and over the mountains above Málaga, to a village called Villanueva del Rosario. Close to the spring of the River Guadalhorce and snuggled in to the back of the Sierra. I have mentioned the village previously as one of my top…

  • A trip to the beach and a hill climb

    A trip to the beach and a hill climb

    More fine weather means a contented dog and a slightly stiff author! We had a four hour walk on Sunday, sandwiched by two trips up the same mountain on the road bikes. Today was the ideal day for a walk down the beach to the marina at El Candado. I even remembered to charge up…

  • Love in the air

    Love in the air

    A dry start to the day but overcast with everything dripping from last night’s storm. We headed over to the arroyo but our path was under a torrent of water so we were forced to double back and head up the opposite hill. The sun soon came out, as did a mixed flock of Crag…

  • A frontal assault

    A frontal assault

    Weather fronts in this case. Bringing rain to a parched land for over 2 weeks now, and more is on its way. It is being reported that Málaga now has enough water for 2 year’s consumption, but with still less than half the capacity in the main reservoirs, there is plenty of room for more…

  • Back to San Anton

    Back to San Anton

    With a rucksack filled with various bits of optical kit, we headed back over to catch up with the Peregrines on the crag. No rain this morning for a change but my boots are still a bit humid from yesterday’s dog walk. The arroyo still has a generous flow of muddy water and we head…

  • Another back door

    Another back door

    It feels like an age since my previous post, and the truth of it is that I have made many starts but I haven’t found the where with all to get one finished and hit the publish button. Since I last wrote, I have moved house twice, the first being a first floor flat with…

  • Arxarquía outing

    Arxarquía outing

    Having walked Billy nice and early, I picked up our work van, loaded up the optical equipment and headed off on a whistlestop bird tour of the East of Málaga province with one of my oldest and bestest friends Joe, who had popped over for some respite from the UK weather. Luckily the Sun was…

  • A Nightingale sang…

    A Nightingale sang…

    …. as we made our way out of the house in the gloom of a mid-March morning, shrouded in low, welcome clouds, promising rain. The bird in question has now moved on so Billy and I will have to go further afield for our Nightingale fix. It has been ages since my last post, but…

  • Swifts, Swallows & Martins

    Swifts, Swallows & Martins

    Deserve their own blog entry I think. In every place I have lived, these birds have always captivated and amazed me with their flying expertise and the barely believable journeys they undertake twice a year. Málaga is no exception, with good urban populations of Barn and Red-Rumped Swallows, House Martins and Sand Martins in Spring/Summer…