Hello everyone. This input was in the room since September, when it David Alvarez, excellent biologist and a better person, decided to join in the corners of affection for the species of shorebirds that rely on the Asturian coast in the autumn passage. He does not like to be thanked for teaching the fact bugs, so I appreciate the company and the sharing of experiences throughout the day.
Spaniard started visiting a sandy looking for a confident sandpipers foraging on algae left by the tide, however first thing we did not have much luck. Some ringed plover, turnstone and a little more running around among the coastal rocks and pebbles. We were then taken to
Llastres, village famous for the series "Dr. Matthew" since it contains some of the scenarios, but also has a great interest in bird watching in your port as we can find some marine lies behind the intense vaje the north. Was the case of 4 auk who let go with the flow while we watched with binoculars. One line had a peak looming. Moved away from the beach and then turn around and 3 of them enter the port town where we portray.
Youth alkaline ( Alca torda ) in Llastres It was just 2 months he has been in the breeding colonies of these animals in Scotland and meet them in these latitudes makes clear the ability to move and survival of some animals and a year after years are able to travel hundreds of miles to give rise to a new generation that somehow keep their genes when they are no longer here.
A young common tern also was busy fishing in the shallow end of the beach as a young cormorant to dive well we could see and appreciate how it moves under water thanks to the shallow layer became water in a glass virtually transparent.
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo ) is amazing how some species are more or less confident as to where we find them. For example, the needles were generally confident all day, but where were was more confident on the beach of Gijón. It's funny how people look at us still enjoy the sun at this time of year, as we approached with our objectives and outerwear to the waders. Several people told us that if we photographed the gull chicks, and it seems that many people have this belief that small waders are gull chicks. They say that the pot is best and give a unique flavor. You know, traditions. Celebrities are
turnstone and egrets of San Lorenzo in Gijón, for your confidence and variety of poses and capture the moments that allow to operate with complete ease and confidence with the people they are accustomed.
Turnstone (Arenaria interpres ) 
Egret (Egretta garzetta ) 
ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula ) 
colipinta Needle ( Limosa lapponica ) month of September with the migratory movements of many species is a month used by many ornithologists to search for rarities. I personally am of the opinion that we must first know our wildlife, that really has an ecological importance of weight and there will be time for rarities, but the truth is always struck by the observation of animals that may not and never come back to see rarely displayed by our latitudes, hence the weirdness. At that time one side of 8 write Lapps fed in the area of \u200b\u200bCabu penises, one of the windiest points on the Iberian Peninsula and devoid in some practical points of vegetation and that does not support the intense sweep of the wind. We struggled to find them but finally found the 8 animals feeding on the body completely glued to the ground and with movements that resemble those of rodents. To admire the animals a few feet is something not easily forgotten and once again demonstrates the confidence of certain animals as they come from.
Write Lapps ( Calcarius lapponicus ) on the central coast Asturiana I commented to David that it seems incredible that a little more than a century guillemots and other criasen marinas in the area cut off from the Peñas and today is not any of that practically the entire coast of Cantabria.
The cliffs are monitored, as all settings for a predator and in this case a peregrine falcon delighted us with some last a good distance to show their presence.
peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus brookei ) decided to finish the day at the beach Bañugues, famous for the abundance of shorebirds in the steps and the ease of portraying them if you do it the right way and patience. There were many species that we saw on this beach.
begin with the sandpiper. The most abundant and restless of the waders that were there. They feed in the area where he still gets a bit of tide water. Advantage algae tides leave to seek food and are quite large groups that may include several species. We could see dunlin, sandpipers toed, often sandpiper, sandpiper fat (this is fed in a group of needles instead of the other correlations) and finally another rarity, the Buff-breasted Sandpiper. A name that comes to hair and its plumage is this color. They also highlight its yellow legs and one eye slightly torn in the American species of shorebirds.
Sandpiper often (Calidris minuta ) 
toed Sandpiper (Calidris alba ) 
Dunlin (Calidris alpina ) 
Sandpiper fat ( Calidris canutus ) 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Buff-breasted Sandpiper ) This species of sandpipers does not like water and when it appears it is usually in meadows and areas of the rasa but it is rare to see it directly on the beach when it reaches latitudes are not very normal for you. The truth is that animal is a very striking and grateful to see. We are also
redshanks, needles and plovers on the beach. The needles appear in the area where the sand is softened by the arrival of the waves and bury their beaks designed to catch invertebrates hypogea.
Common Redshank (Tringa totanus ) 
colipinta Needle (Limosa lapponica ) The surprise of the day we gave it a kingfisher which landed on the rocks on the beach for Bañugues make a haul of fish in the tidal pools before our eyes. You can read more about it here
Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis ) In short, a day which costs the same and mostly forgotten. With a variety of species, environments, times, and above all a company scrotumtightening. I hope you liked the entry. A greeting
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