After a pretty busy day yesterday we decided not to do too much birding today so we got the bus to Formentor Beach with the idea of just having a bit of a walk around the area of the beach in the pine trees just in case anything interesting showed itself.<\/p>\n
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One thing that was frustrating was that were everywhere we went we got good views of the Albercutx Tower that we had been at a couple of days before. The difference between then and now was that now we could distinctly see some birds of prey flying around then area but I didn’t have my scope with me so we just had to accept that they were too distant to identify. By their size as would have said that they were Eagles though.<\/p>\n
There wasn’t much we could do about that so we had to make the best of where we were We walked a bit up the main road to Cap Formentor but largely the birds were Chaffinches or Blackbirds and up in the air Swallow and Swifts. So far, so ordinary, but then I heard a very high pitched twittering and a scan of the pine trees nearby revealed two small birds flitting after each other. They were obviously “crests” but I could only see them from underneath. But when I saw yellow- orange shoulder patches I was sure that we had another “holiday tick” -two Firecrests. Try as we might we could not find that other local specialty, the Crossbill, but we pleased enough on a non- birding day to have added one more species to our holiday list. We returned to Port de Pollenca by boat and I did see one bird on the water but that was probably just a Shag; it disappeared under the water as soon as I had it in my bins.<\/p>\n
| Species<\/th>\n | Count<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n |
|---|---|
| Common Swift<\/td>\n | 10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Barn Swallow<\/td>\n | 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Great Tit<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Firecrest<\/td>\n | 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Eurasian Blackbird<\/td>\n | 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Common Chaffinch<\/td>\n | 100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| House Sparrow<\/td>\n | 30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mallorca Holiday 5th May 2015 : Formentor Beach After a pretty busy day yesterday we decided not to do too much birding today so we got the bus to Formentor Beach with the idea of just having a bit of a walk around the area of the beach in the pine trees just in case … <\/p>\n |