Family wedding celebrations are great ... when they're close to a wonderful reserve somewhere abroad they're even better ...
Aiguamolls is a reserve that I've visited many times over a fifteen year period ... this former rice paddy site has never failed to delight ... with its pools, wet meadows, woodland, open grassland and coastal dunes ...
While Great White Egrets are not the rarity that they were a few decades ago, a little group of them is always a nice sight ...
... the same thing goes for Spoonbills too ...
... and Flamingoes of course ...
... the wet meadows had many Dunlin, Ringed Plovers but this Pectoral Sandpiper was a nice surprise ...
... and a single lingering White Stork stood nearby ...
... a flock of Black-headed Gulls is always worth a look through and this time it turned up a Slender-billed Gull ... a delightful species ...
... the flooded fields were perfect habitat for Green Sandpiper ...
... and Yellow-legged Gulls are always worth looking at ...
... some Mousached Warblers were singing quite well from some isolated groups of reeds and Zitting Cisticolas were also in the reedbeds and one showed well ...
... Spotted Redshanks were common and typically favouring the deeper water ...
... in the more open areas of dry grassland a Crested Lark put in an appearance ... showing better in flight than on the groiund ...
... and back on the wet grassland Water Pipitswere present in good numbers ...
