Saturday, 1st February 2025, 11:10 a.m.
Paul do Taipal, Montemor-o-Velho, Coimbra, Portugal
David Holyoak
walking & drive in LandRover; much of time stationary in 2 hides
| 1,300 | Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata only rough estimate of numbers; many more groups of them likely to be out of sight |
| 72 | MallardAnas platyrhynchos |
| 650 | Northern PintailAnas acuta occasional panic flights of large duck flocks & diving en masse by Pintail probably associated with close presence (or attacks?) from Booted Eagles |
| 25 | Eurasian TealAnas crecca crecca |
| 2 | Water RailRallus aquaticus heard only |
| 2 | Eurasian CootFulica atra |
| 3 | Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollis heard only |
| 27 | White StorkCiconia ciconia including 7 adults in total at 5 nests |
| 7 | Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo |
| 21 | Eurasian SpoonbillPlatalea leucorodia 21 counted in or near low trees & bushes at Grey Heron colony in reedbeds; birds photographed flew from there to feed, bathe or both, in shallow open water of edge of pool |
| 155 | Grey HeronArdea cinerea total includes 128 counted on low trees & bushes in reedbed, with nests of heronry |
| 2 | Booted EagleHieraaetus pennatus seen soaring; occasional panic flights of large duck flocks & diving en masse by Pintail probably associated with their close presence (or attacks?) |
| 3 | Western Marsh HarrierCircus aeruginosus |
| 1 | Common BuzzardButeo buteo |
| 4 | Carrion CrowCorvus corone |
| 1 | Eurasian Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus |
| 2 | Great TitParus major |
| 12 | Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita |
| 4 | Cetti's WarblerCettia cetti heard only, songs |
| 3 | Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatus |
| 1 | Eurasian BlackcapSylvia atricapilla heard only |
| 2 | Song ThrushTurdus philomelos |
| 1 | Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula |
| 6 | European RobinErithacus rubecula |
| 1 | Common ChaffinchFringilla coelebs |