by Francisco Javier García Vargas

 

In the evening of 02/XI/2008, I detected a little warbler in a garden inside a property at the village of Uga, south of Lanzarote. I could confirm that it was a Yellow-browed Warbler, but I could not take photographs of the bird because the light was very poor. I went to Uga again in the morning of 03/XI and the bird was at the same place. Taking photos of this bird was very difficult because I was behind a wooden fence. This is our second record of Yellow-browed Warbler at Lanzarote, after the bird seen at Puerto del Carmen on February 2008 (there is photopage of this bird here).

NEW

 The bird was still present on 04/XI when I went there with Antonio Unquiles and our good friend Juan José Ramos Melo (BIRDING CANARIAS), who came from Tenerife and twitched the Semipalmated Sandpiper and the Yellow-browed Warbler. We could obtain new pics of the bird.

04/XI/2008 PICTURES

 

Yellow-browed Warbler. Uga. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Yellow-browed Warbler. Uga. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Yellow-browed Warbler. Uga. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Yellow-browed Warbler. Uga. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Yellow-browed Warbler. Uga. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

03/XI/2008 PICTURES

 

Yellow-browed Warbler. Uga. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Yellow-browed Warbler. Uga. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

 

 

 

 

by Francisco Javier García Vargas

 

In the morning of 01/XI/2008, under a very bad weather with strong wind and rain, I detected a Semipalmated Sandpiper in one of the shores of the dump at Tías golf course. With this very bad weather and with a very poor light, I could take some pics of the bird, but the rain made me go back home. In the afternoon, the sun was shining and I went again to the golf course, taking better photographs of the bird.

This is (if accepted) the first record of Semipalmated Sandpiper for Lanzarote and the eastern side of the Canary Islands.

 

Semipalmated Sandpiper. Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Semipalmated Sandpiper. Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Semipalmated Sandpiper. Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Semipalmated Sandpiper. Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Semipalmated Sandpiper. Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Semipalmated Sandpiper. Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Semipalmated Sandpiper. Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

 

by Francisco Javier García Vargas

 

This month, about rarities, one Pectoral Sandpiper was seen at Janubio salt pans on 15/X, increasing to 2 birds on 21/X, remaining one bird there until at least 26/X. The Wilson´s Phalarope was seen last time at Janubio salt pans on 21/X and the Blue Rock Thrush was seen again on 06 and 21/X, when I obtained one (horrible) pic of it.

About scarce migrants, ducks have started to arrive, with 1 Common Teal seen by A. Unquiles at Janubio salt pans on 07/X and another bird I observed at Tías golf course on 26/X, remaining there into November. At Tías golf course too, I observed 1 Northern Pintail on 19 and 20/X.  1 Montagu´s Harrier was found dead at San Bartolomé on 13/X. 1 Common Moorhen was seen at Tías golf course between 01 and 20/X. 1 Eurasian Oystercatcher was at Janubio salt pans all month staying there into November, 1 Little Ringed Plover was seen at Tías golf course on 19 and 20/X, 1 European Golden Plover was observed at Tías golf course on 05/X, Red Knots were seen at Janubio and La Santa, Little Stints at Janubio and Los Cocoteros salt pans, Curlew Sandpipers at Janubio and Los Cocoteros, Ruffs at Janubio and Tías golf course, 1 Eurasian Curlew at Órzola on 22/X and 1 Wood Sandpiper at Los Cocoteros salt pans on 18 and 22/X. Another interesting observations was 1 Sand Martin at Tías golf course on 19/X, Tree Pipits at Tías golf course, Grey Wagtails at Arrecife and Tías golf course, Whinchat (1 bird I observed at Tías golf course on 01/X and some birds seen by J. Sagardía at Famara plains on 02 and 04/X), 1 Eurasian Reed Warbler seen by J. Sagardía at Janubio on 01/X, 1 Western Bonelli´s Warbler I saw at Arrecife on 03/X and 2 European Goldfinchs that I observed at Arrecife on 24/X.

 

OCTOBER 2008 COMPLETE LIST

Cory´s Shearwater

Cattle Egret

Little Egret

Grey Heron

Common Teal

Northern Pintail

Montagu´s Harrier

Common Kestrel

Eleonora´s Falcon

Barbary Falcon

Barbary Partridge

Common Moorhen

Common Moorhen. Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Eurasian Oystercatcher

Eurasian Oystercatcher. Janubio salt pans. Photo: J. Sagardía

 

Black-winged Stilt

Stone-curlew

Little Ringed Plover

Ringed Plover

Kentish Plover

European Golden Plover

European Golden Plover. Tías golf course. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Grey Plover

Red Knot

Red Knot. Janubio salt pans. Photo: J. Sagardía

 

Sanderling

Little Stint

Pectoral Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper. Janubio salt pans. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Pectoral Sandpiper. Janubio salt pans. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Pectoral Sandpiper. Janubio salt pans. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Curlew Sandpiper

Dunlin

Ruff

Bar-tailed Godwit

Whimbrel

Eurasian Curlew

Common Redshank

Common Greenshank

Wood Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper

Ruddy Turnstone

Wilson´s Phalarope

Wison´s Phalarope. Janubio salt pans. Photo: J. Sagardía

 

Wison´s Phalarope. Janubio salt pans. Photo: J. Sagardía

 

Wison´s Phalarope. Janubio salt pans. Photo: J. Sagardía

 

Wison´s Phalarope. Janubio salt pans. Photo: J. Sagardía

 

Wison´s Phalarope. Janubio salt pans. Photo: J. Sagardía

 

Black-headed Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Yellow-legged Gull

Sandwich Tern

Eurasian Collared Dove

European Turtle Dove

Laughing Dove

Ring-necked Parakeet

Plain Swift

Hoopoe

Lesser Short-toed Lark

Sand Martin

Barn Swallow

House Martin

Berthelot´s Pipit

Tree Pipit

Yellow Wagtail

Grey Wagtail

White Wagtail

European Robin

Black Redstart

Whinchat

Whinchat. Famara plains. Photo. J. Sagardía

 

Northern Wheatear

Blue Rock Thrush

Blue Rock Thrush. Janubio salt pans. Photo: F. J. García Vargas

 

Eurasian Reed Warbler

Spectacled Warbler

Subalpine Warbler

Common Whitethroat

Western Bonelli´s Warbler

Willow Warbler

Willow Warbler (with Pied Flycatcher). Yaiza. Photo: J. Sagardía. This is migration!

 

Spotted Flycatcher

Pied Flycatcher

Southern Grey Shrike

Common Starling

Spanish Sparrow

European Goldfinch

Common Linnet

Trumpeter Finch