Extremadura and Coto Doñana Tour 21st -28th April

Azure-winged Magpie at the Coto Doñana last week.

 Here are some photo highlights of Limosa Holidays tour to Extremadura and Andalucia. This was a two centre holiday based for four nights outside Trujillo in Extremadura and three on the Doñana at El Rocío.

Black Stork with nesting material

 It was a great tour, with lovely tour participants that all got on well together and really enjoyed both experiences of two great widlife areas and watching all the key birds both National Parks have to offer.

Booted Eagle

Collared Pratincole

Dartford Warbler male

Gadwall

Great Bustard

Great Spotted Cuckoo

Snow on the Sierra de Gredos

Cold air over the Gredos Mountains

Griffon Vulture up close

Some of the Limosa group participants

Hoopoe

Female Lesser Kestrel

Little Owl at a Roller's nest box

Male Marsh Harrier

Marsh Harrier male in breeding plumage

Montagu's Harrier adult male displaying

Montagu's Harrier, melanistic form at Santa Marta de Magasca track

Purple Herons on the Coto Doñana and at the Odiel Marshes

 

Snake fight!

Greater Flamingoes

Red Crested Pochard male

Male Serin

Short-toed Eagle

Southern Grey Shrike with Banded Centipede

Some images of the adult Spanish Imperial Eagle at Monfrague

Subalpine Warbler male

Trujillo

Another view of Trujillo

 

Woodchat Shrike

Yellow Wagtail male (Iberian race)

 

Lesser Kestrel. Male with lizard

 

Montagu's Harrier