 Little Bustard male |
 Early morning near Amposta |
 Hotel Montsia - my hotel in Amposta |
 Ricefields getting water |
 The delta is a huge area of fields |
 One of many canals in the Ebro delta |
 Amposta bridge over river Ebro |
 Spanish car |
 Looking after the car....Amposta / Spain |
 Tractor with Whiskered Terns |
 Whiskered Terns |
 Whiskered Tern |
 Whiskered Tern |
 Whiskered Tern |
 Whiskered Terns |
 Bad weather over the delta |
 Low rainclouds near Amposta |
 A flock of Black-winged Stilts in early morning light |
 Black-winged Stilt |
 Black-winged Stilt |
 Streetsmart Audouin`s Gull |
 Audouin`s Gull |
 Audouin`s Gull |
 Audouin`s Gulls |
 Audouin`s Gulls in Sant Carles de la Rapita |
 Audouin`s Gulls |
 Audouin`s Gulls |
 Yellow-legged Gull |
 Slender-billed Gull |
 Slender-billed Gull |
 A system of watercanals supply the fields |
 Moore water to the ricefields |
 Seaside carpets of flowers |
 Sand formation |
 Walking the dogs south of Eucaliptus |
 Male Kentish Plover |
 Kentish Plovers |
 Little Egret |
 Little Egret |
 Little Egret |
 Purple Heron |
 Purple Heron |
 Purple Heron |
 Purple Heron |
 Purple Heron |
 Grey heron |
 Flamingos |
 Cormorant drying wings on the river bed |
 Yellow Wagtail |
 Citting Cisticola - abundant in all reed |
 Citting Cisticola |
 Citting Cisticola - master climber!! |
 Purple Swamp-hens - Living in the reed but feeding in the fields (not popular by farmers) |
 Purple Swamp-hen |
 Purple Swamp-hen |
 Purple Swamp-hens |
 Purple Swamp-hen |
 Purple Swamp-hens |
 Little Crake |
 Dels Ports - Mountains near Ebro delta |
 Olive trees |
 Old housewall |
 The Village Montsonis near Sierra del Montsec |
 View from Montsonis to north-west |
 Early morning view from my bedroomwindow in Montsonis w.jpg |
 Montsonis houseroofs |
 Santuari de Mari near Montsonis |
 Inside Montsonis Castle |
 Deep down to Montsonis Castle Wine cellar |
 My host in Montsonis - Ramon Orpinell |
 Professional birdwathcher Steve West - resident in Catalonia |
 Spanish wildlifephotographer Joan Gil |
 Famous professional wildlifephotographer Jordi Bas |
 Sierra de Boumort - Vulture territory |
 Joan Gil helping to prepare vulture hide |
 Myself inside the vulture hide - nice and cosey.... |
 Griffon Vulture |
 Griffon Vultures |
 How to eat a sheep - start with the intestine |
 Griffon Vultures |
 Griffon Vulture showing his impressive wings |
 Griffon Vultures |
 Griffon Vultures |
 Griffon Vultures - not much left of the sheep now |
 Griffon Vultures |
 Griffon Vulture aggression |
 Griffon Vulture wrestling 1 |
 Griffon Vulture wrestling 2 |
 Griffon Vulture wrestling 3 - admit you are STUCK!! |
 Griffon Vultures fighting |
 Griffon Vultures fighting |
 Griffon Vulture protecting his dinner.... |
 Black Vulture |
 Black Vulture |
 Black + Griffon Vulture |
 Black + Griffon Vulture |
 Griffon- and Black Vulture (ringed) |
 Griffons and two Black Vultures feeding on a sheep |
 Black Vulture |
 Black Vultures |
 Black Vulture , Watch out - I´m big and strong..... |
 Black Vulture protecting his food |
 Black Vulture and Griffons |
 Black Vultures |
 Black Vultures |
 Black- and Griffon Vulture |
 Black Vultures (right bird has radio transmitter on the back) |
 Our sheep after 2 hours feeding......left for the Lammergeiers |
 Juvenile Lammergeier |
 Juvenile Lammergeier |
 Juvenile Lammergeier |
 Juvenile Lammergeier |
 Juvenile Lammergeier |
 Juvenile Lammergeiers |
 Juvenile Lammergeiers |
 Juvenile Lammergeiers |
 Adult Lammergeier |
 Western Orphean Warbler |
 Western Orphean Warbler |
 Subalpine Warbler |
 Subalpine Warbler |
 Western Bonelli`s Warbler |
 Western Bonelli`s Warbler |
 Western Bonelli`s Warbler |
 Firecrest |
 Firecrest |
 Rio Segre near Sierra del Montsec |
 Joan Gil walking up to Mont Roig |
 Rock Sparrow at Mont Roig |
 Rock Sparrow at Mont Roig |
 Ophrys sphegodes at Mont Roig |
 Ophrys sphegodes at Mont Roig |
 Joan Gil at Mont Roig |
 Collared Pratincoles |
 La Sentiu near Balaguer |
 The plains near Balguer - Little Bustard territory |
 Looking towards Montsec - Cutells |
 Jordi Bas looking for Little Bustards |
 Joan Gil |
 Poppyfield |
 Poppyfield |
 Poppyfield |
 Poppyfield |
 Male Little Bustard flying |
 Jordi & Joan preparing a hide for Little Bustard |
 Early morning light on a male Little Bustard |
 Early morning light on a male Little Bustard |
 Male Little Bustard |
 Male Little Bustard |
 Male Little Bustard on display... |
 Little Bustard lek |
 Little Bustard lek |
 The great attraction - a female Little Bustard |
 Male Little Bustards flying low in evening light |
 A Red-legged Partridge passing by my hide |
 Red-legged Partridge |
 Red-legged Partridge |
 Little owl |
 Corn Bunting |
 Corn Bunting |
 Great Spotted Cuckoo |
 Great Spotted Cuckoo taking off |
 "Shaken not stirred" Bee-eater disarming a bee before eating it |
 Bad weather passing near Balaguer |
 Waiting in Jordis car for the thunderstorm to pass |
 The "perfect" Rainbow near Balaguer |