Thursday 14th June (La Blanca Baja)


Mr. Kite looked out of The Joint window intoa blue sunny sky. A few house sparrows were chirping. Spring was drawing to a close and the dawn chorus was quieter or not at all. Today Mr. Kite had a plan.

On this sunny morning Mr. Kite cycled through Arguedas and into The Bardenas Reales of Navarre. On the way Mr. Kite spotted woodlarks, crested larks and thekla larks. In the La Bardena Blanca it was hot, bare and desert like; similar to the Wild West. Plenty of larks and linnets were on show with a few subalpine warblers. However spot of the day was a black-eared wheatear that perched on a fence post.

It was too hot in La Blanca so Mr. Kite returned leisurely to The Joint stopping on the way to investigate the 'paddy fields' where cattle egrets, little egrets and black-winged stilts fed in the damp earth.

Mr. Kite returned to The Joint for a tipple of Mahou Classica. Cheers.