Images from the 'Magic Week' of the Llobregat delta, Barcelona , Catalonia, late September 2003.

Photos by Ferran López and Ricard Gutiérrez 
Text by Ricard Gutiérrez
 

Introduction

From 25-28.9.2003 six rarities needing to be homologated by the Spanish Rarities Committee were recorded at the Llobregat delta Nature Reserves. In the rest of the year only one, a Collared Flycatcher, had been noted. These rarities included a party of three Pectoral Sandpipers Calidris melanotos, one having arrived earlier and two just seen together with the former on 25.9, then came the ringing of a Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca, a rarity in Catalonia and on 26.9 the ringing of a Red-breasted Flycatcher Ficedula parva followed by another, a presumed Euring 5 bird seen on saturday 27.9. To end the week, a 1st winter Citrine Wagtail was to be found on Sunday 28.9. All in all an unforgettable weekend.

Photographs

Photos by © Ferran López  © Ricard Gutiérrez and  photographed using digital camera Nikon and Agfa respectively through Kowa TSN823 and TSN824 telescopes.

Videos
 

	Citrine Wagtail (Motacilla citreola) mcitreola.wmv (204 Kb) Low resolution. 320x240 pixels © Ricard Gutiérrez
	mcitreola2.wmv (584 Kb) Low resolution. 320x240 pixels © Ricard Gutiérrez

Photos from above to below: Lesser Whitethroat (Sylvia curruca) bird and head detail  (Ferran López), 1st winter Red-breasted Flycatcher (Ficedula parva): bird in the hand and head detail (Ferran López) and one of the two pectoral Sandpipers arrived on 25.9 (Ricard Gutiérrez)
Fotos de arriba a abajo: Curruca Zarcerilla (Sylvia curruca) pájaro en mano y detalle de la cabeza (Ferran López), 1r invierno de Papamoscas papirrojo (Ficedula parva): ave en mano y detalle de la cabeza (Ferran López) y uno de los dos correlimos pectorales que llegaron a la reserva el 25.9 (Ricard Gutiérrez)
Fotos de dalt a baix: Tallarol Xerraire (Sylvia curruca) enma i detall del cap(Ferran López), 1r hivern de Papamosques menut (Ficedula parva): ocell en ma i detall del cap (Ferran López) y un dels dos pectorals que van arribar a la reserva el 25.9 (Ricard Gutiérrez)

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Summary:
Introduction
Photographs