Wednesday

Birdwatching in the Alpujarras

In april we were very lucky to receive a dutch couple, enthousiasts of birdwatching. After their holidays they send us a list with all the birds they have spotted in Bubión and surroundings.

One of the most spectacular birds they had seen was a bee-eater.

Bee eater

and the biggest one:

Booted Eagle




List of birds spotted:
Bee eater, hoopoe, Alpine acentor, Short toed treecreeper, Booted eagle, Woodchat shrike, Eurasian jay, Crag martin, European serin, Great tit, Coal tit, Wren, Red billed chough, Thekla lark, Black redstart, Common cuckoo, Common raven, blackcap, western rock bunting, Spotless starling, swallow, Barn swallow, House sparrow, Blue tit, goldfinch,White wagtail, Grey wagtail, blackbird, dipper, Long-tailed tit, Western bonellis warbler, robin, Common chaffinch, Blue rock thrush, Common nightinggale, Cettis warbler, European stonechat, woodlark, magpie, European greenfinch, Common buzzard, Mistle thrush.


There are wonderful places to spot birds here in the Alpujarra.
Three sites in the Alpujarras are described in the ornitholgocial publication ´Where to Watch birds in Southern and Western Spain´ by Ernest García and Andres Paterson: Cortijo Dar al Habibi and parque forestal de Soportújar, Capileira to Sierra Nevada and the valley of Trevélez river. On the list of resident Alpujarran birds in this book, figures also the rare the Bonelli´s Eagle.