Migratory Bird Day from the balcony Of course, not having to keep one at home should be allowed to celebrate the World Day
Migratory Bird . Today I will devote a few moments, watching birds from the terrace and balcony. The aim will be migratory birds, and I will update the observations obtained during the day in this blog. The goal was to share this celebration with those who can not leave the country to see birds today, so that at least can look out with me to the balcony.
And here it comes to clarify that, in Castilian,
migratory birds are those species that have the quality to migrate, while
migratory birds are birds that are in full migration, ie migratory birds migrating. In English there is only the Migratory adjective, so the literal translation of World Migratory Bird Day would be the World Day of Migratory Birds, but we should really say, since for years, World migratory birds, as this event is dedicated species that migrate, not only to species that are on the move at the time of the celebration. It's up to the wealth of nuances of each language.
Well, back from our trip "migration" to the world of definitions. We're back on the balcony of the house, the view this morning is the one in the picture below. We will focus first on her, facing the west, as it comes to hand and we have the sun on his back, and from time to time, we uploaded to the roof to sweep the horizon and the skies of the north, east and south. And the notes on migrating birds, a selection that we observed between the placing and updating go then we go there?
SELECTION TODAY'S COMMENTS
- Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica : birds flying low, chasing insects on the grass. Some, no doubt the local breeding, perching in a nearby pool to collect and make balls of clay to build or repair the nest. A third group of individuals is an intermittent river flying high to the north, probably swallows the populations of central and northern Europe, who are still away.
- Buitrón Cisticola juncidis : several reproducing individuals in their web nests placed in the adjacent grassland. More than migrates, it is considered a kind dispersive, with seasonal and altitudinal movements fluctuating and irregular.
- Booted Eagle Hieraaetus pennatus : 1 copy of morpho clear of a couple nearby. Frequent prey migrates during the migratory, and, for two decades, increasingly common in winter, whereas before it was a typical trans-migrant, ie winter quarters south of the Sahara.
- White Wagtail Motacilla alba : walks here resident breeding pair next to the house, with the male recognizable by its left wing always a little off the hook, probably by some ancient wound. And from September to late winter, the population increases to be abundant, thanks to the arrival of wintering quota.
- Serin Serinus serinus : gardens bustling with songs of this species, but players sedentary individuals, who have already taken some chickens later this season. In winter and during the migratory its presence multiplies the contribution of northern wintering populations.
- European Honey-buzzard Pernis apivorus : are happening throughout the day small groups and a few isolated examples of these raptors soaring, so gregarious during migration, when they come to gather in flocks hundreds of individuals.
- Oriole Oriolus Oriolus : chasing 1 male 1 female in the pine-island. It is one of the summer species (only present in spring and summer) plus late to get from their African winter quarters.
- Black Stork Ciconia nigra : a copy of this-here-poor migrants, rising in a thermal stream on top of a hill in sunny and following its glide path north, probably to the central European breeding areas.
- Heron Ardea cinerea : 1 immature passes from north to south. It's a bird migrates to a recent breeding colony nearby and a few miles south, now in full play. However, the individual observed belong, probably non-breeding population at this time, wandering aimlessly, with more or less erratic movements.
- Swift Apus apus : groups with high, feeding on insects in flight. Some must be birds nesting in the area, others sedimentary samples (temporarily parked during migration) to continue as before his trip to northern destinations.
- Screech Owl Otus scops European : cross his short tawny owls whistling the three neighboring territories, intertwined with those of the owls. Although they are mostly summer migrants, here is a small wintering population.
- Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos : nightingale sings in front of us and the former partner of the bluff, and so will much of the night, an evening concert singing with blackbirds, frogs and midwife toad.
- necked Nightjar Caprimulgus ruficollis and end of the day's observation and the choir night nighthawks in full breeding after a foothold in their breeding grounds to return African land, puts the final touch to this day we celebrate observation our special World Day of Migratory Birds.
