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Travel report Parque Natural de Doñana (Salines at Bonanza und Algaida) and rice-growing region of La Janda (Atlantic coast)
July 4-5 2009
The other pied avocet daddy is a little bit more relaxed and ….
... his cute and perky offspring …..
…is looking directly in front of us…..
…excitedly for something to eat:
We continued our way along the bumpy road and what we got to see there, I was not able to catch with the camera:
They were too far away all the hundreds of pied avocets, flamingoes and redshanks. Also a huge group of long beaked shorebirds. I guess that were black-tailed godwits:
In the midday heat there was heat haze in the air and that´s how these photos were made, which only show a fraction of what we have seen:
Of course in this marshland also raptors have a habitat with abundant food supply.
Here a short-toed eagle:
A booted eagle in its pale morph:
And a red kite who again and again ….
… frightened and terrified with his flyovers the large shorebird gathering:
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