Time for a Drink !

Hides de Calera (Day 2 PM) - 13.10.2025

Now the afternoon session and we are heading to one of the many Dehesa’s (open wooded area) which is set up with a drinking pool always an attraction to passerines. The pool is very much the same as you would find at any other other location but here in sunny Spain much more productive.

With blue sky’s the sun is not kind as we are located in a shaded area shooting onto a open field of yellow in full sun which is over exposing the subject image background…doh ! fortunately as the afternoon progresses the light get better, but never ideal.

Azure-winged Magpie’s are everywhere maybe unto twenty, several of the group move off only to be replaced by another simular number, it’s manic. They are so quick, you just have to wait for one to land an fire off a burst hoping you get one in focus.

A single Hawfinch arrives it’s a male, then two more in total maybe up to ten both male and female, then they get spooked taking to the trees, but they soon come back.

Visitors include, some surprising having not seen previously…Hawfinch m/f, Goldfinch, Greenfinch m/f, Chaffinch, Blackcap m/f, Chiffchaff, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Azure-wing Magpie, Common Magpie. Robin.

Azure-winged Magpie

Hawfinch

Blue Tit

Chiffchaff