14 September 2024: Day 8, Ronda and Sierra Grazalema Herbal Park, WINGS Spain in Autumn. Click on right here to look (typically) the place the excursion is as of late.
As of late we depart the ocean at Tarifa and climb to the mountains of Sierra Grazalema Herbal Park. Its 200 sq. miles include rivers, lakes, karst valleys, whitewashed villages and a number of other mountain levels. The best possible mountain, Pinar at 5,427 feet (1,654 m), is greater than a mile top.
The Herbal Park isn’t a desolate tract for there are small villages of whitewashed structures known as pueblos blancos — actually “white villages” — sprinkled all over. Grazalema (pictured under, inhabitants 2,053) stocks its identify with the mountains and the park. The city is north of the middle of the map above.
As a result of our accommodation is in Ronda, chances are high that excellent we will be able to be birding at the jap aspect of the park the place eBird signifies we will be able to see those goal species.
Species so as of look:
- Eurasian griffon (Gyps fulvus)
- Bonelli’s eagle (Aquila fasciata)
- Iberian gray shrike (Lanius meridionalis)
- Crested tit (Lophophanes cristatus)
- Thekla’s lark (Galerida theklae)
- Sardinian warbler (Curruca melanocephala)
- Black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)
- Blue rock thrush (Monticola solitarius)
- Black wheatear (Oenanthe leucura)
- White-throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
- Rock bunting (Emberiza cia)
We may also see an Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica) having a look down at us from top above. Those are actually the mountain “goats” of Spain for they’re in the similar genus because the home goat.
There are a large number of birds to look in two days sooner than we head north to Osuna.