Monday, 10th March 2025, 11:16 a.m.
Pinhão, Alijó, Vila Real, Portugal
Bradley Waggoner
Walked uphill and birded along the walking trail- Trilho do Pinhao. Intended on birding also the loop heading downhill, but persistent light to moderate rain set in so that portion of the trail was just a walk. Heavy cloudiness, some brief light rain, light winds, and temperatures in the 50’s. Highlight on the way up was a pair of Black Wheatears - a lifer.
| 2 | Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto |
| 1 | Common BuzzardButeo buteo In circling flags get before rains started |
| 2 | Eurasian HoopoeUpupa epops Flushed. Strikingly patterned! |
| 2 | Eurasian Blue TitCyanistes caeruleus |
| 6 | Great TitParus major |
| 4 | Eurasian Crag MartinPtyonoprogne rupestris |
| 6 | Western House MartinDelichon urbicum |
| 1 | Common ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybita |
| 1 | Eurasian BlackcapSylvia atricapilla |
| 1 | Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytes |
| 75 | Spotless StarlingSturnus unicolor |
| 3 | Song ThrushTurdus philomelos |
| 24 | Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula |
| 3 | European RobinErithacus rubecula |
| 4 | Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochruros |
| 1 | European StonechatSaxicola rubicola |
| 2 | Black WheatearOenanthe leucura Lifer. Pair at possible nest site of old crumbled cobbled building shell. Male all black with brilliant white rump and vent with strikingly white in tail with black terminal band when viewed in flight. Female similarly patterned but grayer-black. |
| 18 | House SparrowPasser domesticus |
| 2 | Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanus |
| 28 | Common ChaffinchFringilla coelebs Abundant. Males often singing |
| 35 | European GreenfinchChloris chloris |
| 2 | Common LinnetLinaria cannabina |
| 15 | European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelis |
| 18 | European SerinSerinus serinus |