Guadalquivir

 

Guadalquivir
February 6-7 2010


Hello dear reader!

On the weekend we finally had been again at our beloved Guadalquivir. The heavy rainfalls of the last months left its marks: the roads were in quite bad condition and in many places completely impassable. And the birds? Well, they spread now about a bigger area, waterholes and wetland so that it is much more complicated to find them. But …

… after we had enjoyed from our hotel room in Sanlucar de Barrameda a first enthralled view to the Guadalquivir and at the opposite located National park of Doñana…

… we went on the way to the saline at Bonanza, where we …

… except a very few redshanks and …

… this nice guy hardly saw any water birds:

And because our usual way through the saline was simply unpassable, we took the way via the pine forest to reach the river:

A cattle egret considered adventuresome what he could do next and …

… already having a terrific idea and flew off, because …

… to get carried around by a sheep is a funny thing!

The black-headed gulls maybe, as we did, bust a gut about the nice cattle egrets:

No time at all for silly giggling had the spiders, which …

… had built their webs every where ...

The marshlands …

… are now really under water:

"Very well, I won´t get cold feet from down there!" Mr. Hoopoe meant a little grumpy:

And Mrs. Kestrel is sharp-eyed observing everything which maybe could move around the garbage bin:

At some point we stopped counting the seen kestrels, because …

… there where many many whom we met at the wayside:

"Sooee, I am also still around!" the fan-tailed warbler signaled:

And Mr. Grey heron showed us his beautiful wedding dress:

Also Mrs. Purple moorhen obviously was pleased that soon there will be offspring again:

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