Flights with Brussels Airlines to Seville Airport.

Hire Car from Gold Cars.

Accommodation Matalascanas Beach Apartmentos Rodriguez, 350 Euros (four person apartment)

Four hour Donana National Park Tour (25 Euros per person) booked at Acebuche Reserve.

Fascinating national park with constant sun, friendly people, interesting history & plenty birds with 67 species seen during a casual birding trip in mid-June.

Above: Azure-winged Magpie, a speciality of the region.

Matalascanas Beach & sewage works

Serin, Pallid and Common Swifts, Sardinian Warbler, Black Kite, Sand Martin, Sandwich Tern, Yellow-legged Gull.

Acebuche Reserve

Azure-winged Magpie, Red-rumped Swallow, White Stork, Woodchat Shrike, Great Reed Warbler, Savi’s Warbler, Bee-eater, Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Spotless Starling, Golden Oriole, Hoopoe, Fan-tailed Warbler, Corn Bunting, Quail, Marsh Harrier, Black Kite, Pochard, Stonechat, Sardinian Warbler, Crested Lark.

El Rocio

Purple Heron, Spoonbill, Greater Flamingo, Whiskered Tern, Purple Gallinule, Pochard, Black-winged Stilt, Yellow Wagtail, Black Kite, White Stork.

Rio Tinto

Four species of Heron (Squacco, Night, Purple, Grey), Spoonbill, Greenshank, Curlew, Little Ringed Plover, Black-winged Stilt, Marsh Harrier, Yellow Wagtail, Black-headed Gull, Red-rumped Swallow,  Fan-tailed Warbler, Reed Warbler, Azure-winged Magpie.

Above: Muelle de las Carabelas Marsh by the Rio Tinto

Palos de la Fronterra

Little Bittern, Cattle Egret, White Stork, Hoopoe, Serin.

Domingo Rubio NR

Approximately 100 Collared Pratincoles, Little Bittern, Purple Gallinule, Cattle Egret, Spoonbill, Little Egret, Little Ringed Plover, Fan-tailed Warbler, Bee-eater, Moorhen, Reed Warbler.

Above: Cattle Egret

Donana National Park Tour

Spanish Imperial Eagle, Audouin's Gull, Glossy Ibis, Greater Flamingo, Lapwing, Black-winged Stilt, Common Tern, Hoopoe, Chaffinch, Black Kite, Yellow-legged Gull also Jellyfish, Lizards, Red Deer & Fallow Deer.

Above: Greater Flamingos

Above: Red Deer

La Rocina Reserve

Red Kite, Kingfisher, Tree Sparrow, Savi’s Warbler, Pochard, White Stork, Greenfinch, Serin, Little Egret, Black Kite, Bee-eater.

Above: Little Egret

Parque Dunas

Booted Eagle, Spanish Imperial Eagle.

Above: Spanish Imperial Eagle

James Walsh, July 2011

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