Lo Romero Golf Course - 20th January 2019
Its the day after my arrival in Murcia and the weather is cloudy with the occasional drizzle so I don't fancy venturing particularly far hence I'm going Local. First stop is only a kilometre down the road amongst the orange groves where Stone Curlew winter in numbers of up to fifty or so, but they are so aware of your presence you have to remain in the car or enter "commando mode" to get any shots at all. Time to head for Lo Romero Golf Course
Lo Remero Golf Course being still in construction has quite a lot of scrub area anything can turn up such as squirrels, woodpeckers, finches and shrikes all being common. Oddly even thou the majority of housing is still under construction the roads are all complete giving easy access around the golf coarse and ideal when using the car as a mobile hide.
Entering the course it always best to setup before you move around the course, windows down and the camera mounted on a bean bag, hold on to the camera and drive slowly which is easily done as this part of the course is deserted.
My first target is an Iberian Red Squirrel busy collecting pine cones, twenty or thirty shots and its gone. Within fifty meters I next encounter a Grey Shrike sat on a fence it's using as a lookout, then flying to the ground and grabbing some insect and returning to the fence, plenty of photo ops here.
In the scrub area a male and female Stonechats are flitting about, I've always found them to be less approachable than in the UK so remaining in the car is always your best option. As I'm photographing the chats I spot a grey blob thats gone my attention, bins up...its a Little Owl. I grab some shots and it gone....you get the idea ! why its always best to be ready with the camera hanging out of the window.
Giving the grey damp condition this has been one of the best first bird photography days to date giving plenty of photo ops.
Looking forward to the rest of the week.
Lo Remero Golf Course being still in construction has quite a lot of scrub area anything can turn up such as squirrels, woodpeckers, finches and shrikes all being common. Oddly even thou the majority of housing is still under construction the roads are all complete giving easy access around the golf coarse and ideal when using the car as a mobile hide.
Entering the course it always best to setup before you move around the course, windows down and the camera mounted on a bean bag, hold on to the camera and drive slowly which is easily done as this part of the course is deserted.
My first target is an Iberian Red Squirrel busy collecting pine cones, twenty or thirty shots and its gone. Within fifty meters I next encounter a Grey Shrike sat on a fence it's using as a lookout, then flying to the ground and grabbing some insect and returning to the fence, plenty of photo ops here.
In the scrub area a male and female Stonechats are flitting about, I've always found them to be less approachable than in the UK so remaining in the car is always your best option. As I'm photographing the chats I spot a grey blob thats gone my attention, bins up...its a Little Owl. I grab some shots and it gone....you get the idea ! why its always best to be ready with the camera hanging out of the window.
Giving the grey damp condition this has been one of the best first bird photography days to date giving plenty of photo ops.
Looking forward to the rest of the week.
Getting a bit ahead of yourself here :)
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