Almost three years to the day I went back to do some birding in the Camargue – this time with fellow birding friend and former colleague Jim Todd.
Jim is a very good birder and thanks to his record keeping I know we saw 44 different species including five new ones for me:
- Greater short-toed lark/alouette calandrelle
- Zitting Cisticola/Cisticole des joncs
- Black kite/Milan noir
- Collared Pratincole/ Glaréole à collier
- Red crested pochard/ Nette Rousse
There were loads of others including our old friend the purple heron/héron pourpré, rollers/rollier, bee-eaters/guepiers and the famous flamant rose – flamingos.
And of course lots of storks/cignone blanche with big babies on huge nests.
Picture courtesy of Jim.
And of course, throughout the whole day we didn’t see another birder – anywhere.
But don’t worry, we’ll be back.
Thrown to (the) Lyon 