Mallorca Holiday 26th April 2015 : Port de Pollenca and La Gola.
With friends from Palma visiting us at noon we had just enough time for a spin around La Gola before they arrived. The general area held the usual Greenshank and Common Sandpiper and a Yellow-legged Gull. There were numerous Mallard chicks and one creche held around 20 of them. In the shrubbery there were several Stonechats and we heard a Sardinian Warbler. The Greenfinch was again the dominant bird numerically. We decided to take a bit of a diversion through the woods. It was one of the best decisions we could have made and gave us the “tick of the fortnight” and although not a “life tick” it was a most splendid sighting.
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