Sunday, 2nd February 2025, 10:43 a.m.
Junqueria Pools Faro, Castro Marim, Faro, Portugal
Brian Carruthers
A mild 15c morning
| 5 | Eurasian TealAnas crecca crecca In flight |
| 9 | Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa |
| 1 | Common WoodpigeonColumba palumbus |
| 6 | Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto |
| 6 | Northern LapwingVanellus vanellus |
| 2 | Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis |
| 4 | White StorkCiconia ciconia |
| 1 | Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo In flight |
| 1 | Little EgretEgretta garzetta |
| 1 | Grey HeronArdea cinerea |
| 1 | Eurasian HoopoeUpupa epops |
| 1 | Common KingfisherAlcedo atthis |
| X | Eurasian WryneckJynx torquilla Two to three about |
| 1 | Iberian Green WoodpeckerPicus sharpei |
| 1 | Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus |
| 1 | Iberian Grey ShrikeLanius meridionalis |
| X | Iberian MagpieCyanopica cooki Large roaming parties around the area |
| 2 | Common MagpiePica pica |
| 1 | Eurasian Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus |
| 2 | Thekla's LarkGalerida theklae |
| X | Barn SwallowHirundo rustica |
| X | Western House MartinDelichon urbicum |
| X | Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita At least 20 - 25 around the pools |
| 1 | Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti |
| X | Spotless StarlingSturnus unicolor |
| X | Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula |
| 1 | European RobinErithacus rubecula |
| 1 | Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros |
| 2 | WhinchatSaxicola rubetra Always seen in field after first ruined house on left. |
| 2 | European StonechatSaxicola rubicola |
| X | House SparrowPasser domesticus |
| 2 | Pied Wagtail/White WagtailMotacilla alba |
| 1 | Common ChaffinchFringilla coelebs |
| 7 | European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis |