The month started slowly. In the first fourteen days I made a trip between the picnic sites above Alcaucin, resulting in a reasonable shot of a Rock Bunting, a bird that frequents rocky, higher ground and is therefore quite numerous in the Axarquia.
Next day at the Charca de Suarez I caught a pair of Cettis Warblers gaving a stunning courtship display. The male perched on a reed stem above the female shaking his wings in a very agitated manner, calling loudly while the female cowered below. This went on for five minutes or more and the birds were too preoccupied to notice me taking pictures just a few meters away.
Next day at the Charca de Suarez I caught a pair of Cettis Warblers gaving a stunning courtship display. The male perched on a reed stem above the female shaking his wings in a very agitated manner, calling loudly while the female cowered below. This went on for five minutes or more and the birds were too preoccupied to notice me taking pictures just a few meters away.
 Cettis male  And meanwhile, a Black-Winged Stilt looking on was too cute to resist taking a picture of. Back at home in Frigiliana I caught this Bonellis Eagle passing over with the remains of something in it´s talons. and in the trees behind the house a Blue Tit made a nice picture.  Bonellis eagle |  Courting Cettis Warbler - I noticed this Purple Swamphen picking up shoots and eating them from its "Hands"  Black.winged Stilt  Blue Tit |
 Zitting Cisticola This little Zitting Cisticola however did let me approach as it sang away on a power cable. A pity that this former Fan-tailed Warbler now has a name more suited to a fizzy drink. | Then walk around the Rio Velez with Bob Wright on the 11th revealed a Spotted Redshank wading the mudbank. Unfortunately it didn´t allow us to get close enough for good photographs so we had to be content with record shots.  Spotted Redshank |
