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Tuesday 21 May 2013

French Trip - Day 7 - 20/5/13

A lovely day with clear blue skies all day. The wind got quite strong in the afternoon but didn't stop the birds from showing. Mainly concentrated our efforts around The Camargue seeing plenty of bits. Our last night was spent at the Auberge des Epis hotel in St. Martin Le Crau.

Le Crau (Peau De Meau)
Pin-tailed Sandgrouse - 14
Little Bustard - 1
Short-toed Lark - 6
Roller - 4
Bee-Eater - 100+
Woodchat Shrike - 1
Hoopoe - 5
Black Kite - 50+ (in one flock)
Honey Buzzard - 1
Quail - 1 h

The Camargue (East)
Greater Flamingo - 500+
Slender-billed Gull - 1
Spectacled Warbler - 5
Short-toed Eagle - 3
Gull-billed Tern - 2
Kentish Plover - 10

Le Petit Camargue
Little Bittern - 1
Montagu's Harrier - 1
Caspian Tern - 1
Black Tern - 2
Whiskered Tern - 10
White-winged Black Tern - 3
Gull-billed Tern - 10
Purple Heron - 20+
Glossy Ibis - 10

 Black-winged Stilts
Slender-billed Gull
Sardinian Warbler
 Greater Flamingo
 Spectacled Warbler
Kentish Plover
 Lesser Emperor Dragonfly