Old Birding Axarquia: More pictures from the Sierra Loja

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

More pictures from the Sierra Loja

John and Jenny Wainwright have managed to get a few more pictures from near the top of the Sierra Loja including, below, adult and juvenile Rock Thrush and one of the passing Alpine Swifts.

All photos by John Wainwright

Top to bottom:

Juvenile Rock Thrush Roquero Rojo Monticola saxatillis

Adult Rock Thrush Roquero Rojo Monticola saxatillis

Alpine Swift Vencejo Real Apus melba

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Background Information

About Bob Wright
Occupation: Retired
Location: Above Lake Vinuela, Axarquia (Malaga)

I retired at the end of 1998 having been a primary school headteacher for thirty years. After a couple of years undertaking some consultancy/ training work with headteachers, I moved to the Axarquia area of the Costa del Sol in Spain. We now live on a mountain top, a little to the north of Velez Malaga and overlook Lake Vinuela to the north and the sea to the south, which gives us excellent panoramic views of the whole area including the mountains.

I have been a birder for over fifty years and before leaving GB I was a qualified "Ringer" for the BTO, undertaking most of my studies in Staffordshire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire. All three counties being well away from the coast, it is not surprising that my main field of interest were those "Little Brown Jobs" (often referred to as LJBs), with a special emphasis on roost work in the autumns and winters and early morning visits to favoured sites, such as Charwelton on the Banbury road from Daventry where, in June and July, it was possible to catch and ring well over an hundred birds and still be home by just after nine am to take the family shopping!

Always an interest in classical music, I have also sung in operettas and one appearance in a "grand opera" (Aida). Most of the former was with the Stamford Gilbert & Sullivan Players where I had the good fortune to appear, rather than star, in all save "Utopia".

Interests
Birding
photography
music
historical and nature visits

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

More pictures from the Sierra Loja

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