We provide a Field Meeting every month, which is a day, or sometimes two days, out at selected birding sites in Andalucia to watch and study birds and sometimes to participate in activities such as Ringing or Migration Watching. These Field meetings offer a great learning experience.
Our Field Meetings are already enjoyed by many members, however, here we have published our Field Meeting Reports so that they can be enjoyed by many more.
MONTAGU’S HARRIER CONSERVATION PROJECT – La Janda Area On a very hot day, 25 members came together for our first field meeting since lockdown, and we were treated to a very special sight, but more of that later. We met in Apollo 11 in the … Continue readingABS Field Meeting June 20th 2020
There are few things better than enjoying our birds and friendship together. And what better than members spending a morning birding and then socialising over a Christmas lunch? Last year provided a highlight to the birding year with great birds followed by our annual Christmas … Continue readingCelebrating our birds and friendship
Twelve ABS members met up with Frank, our leader for the day at 7.30 am. in a car park on the Via Verde near Olvera. And so it was still dark when we set out to walk the two kilometres to the Penon Zaframagon visitor centre. … Continue readingBonus October Field Meeting
Never believe weather forecasts as we were due for heavy rain for most of the day. In fact the sun shone for most of the time and the day was perfect for birding. Fourteen of us met at the Dehesa de Abajo Visitor Centre about … Continue readingOctober 2019 – Doñana, once an important wetland.
Pleasant weather greeted our group at the customary meeting point, the Lidl parking lot in Tarifa. A gentle breeze out of the NNE seemed ideal for raptors crossing over to Africa. And indeed it was! Our leader for the day, Frank Hair, had selected as … Continue readingSeptember 2019 – Tarifa Migration Watch
18 ABS members met at Bar Las Vegas on a lovely sunny day. Our leader, Frank, gave a brief description of what he had planned for our day. We set off along the road where Red-legged Partridge, Stone Curlew (seen by some) a Common Kestrel … Continue readingMay 2019 – The Osuna Triangle
It was on a cloudy cold and windy day that we arrived at Tarifa for Sea Watch. At 8.30am a small group of nine met our guides Frank Hair and Javi Elorriaga at the entrance to the causeway leading to Isla de Las Palomas. We … Continue readingOctober 2018 – Sea Watch Tarifa and La Janda
Defying all weather forecasts 9 hardy souls met at the Venta Casa Cachopo some 17kms south of Seville to bird parts of Isla Menor and Brazo del Este. Often better than Donana Having properly managed irrigation this area is often better than Donana, where at … Continue readingOctober 2018 – Brazo del Este
The first visit by the Andalucia Bird Society to this lovely enclosed site at Charca de Suarez just west of Motril in Granada province. Greeted by light rain, sufficient to have most entering in either raincoats and/or with umbrellas, the weather soon cleared up to … Continue readingSeptember 2018 – Charca de Suarez, Motril
Meeting Point: The group gathered at The Estacion Via Verde, Olvera at 09.30. We then drove in cars, parking a couple of kilometres short of the Estacion de Zaframagón. We walked then slowly to the Estacion, temperatures heading for 30 degrees. Few birds to be seen. Across the viaduct, the water … Continue readingJune 2018 – Peñón de Zaframagón
