Birding in Catalonia 2008 Photo Gallery by Jan-Michael Breider at pbase.com

Birding in Catalonia 2008

Pictures from my two week trip in Spanish Catalonia. I visited Ebro delta, plains near Lleida and the low Pyrenees. Steve West from "Birding Spain" was helpful with parts of the itinirary.
Some of the photographs was taken together with spanish photographers Joan Gil and Jordi Bas.

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

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Hennie & Lies Lammers		04-Oct-2015 11:20
Beautiful pictures. We want in April / May 2016 to this region for bird watching and photo

Guest		12-Dec-2009 10:05
Wowwww Super images of the Little Bustard! Voted

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