Porto Santo trip report by Madeira Wind Birds - October 2009

Juvenile Marsh Harrier

Ring-necked Duck

Spoonbills

7th of October 2009
Porto Santo Golf Course
>6 Wheaters
13 Sanderlings
1 White Wagtail
1 Purple Heron - juvenile
5 Grey Heron
8 Little Egrets
2 Cattle Egrets
3 Spoonbills
8 Mallards - from which 3 females
11 Coots
2 Greenshanks
1 female Mandarin Duck
6 Buzzards sitting all together

6th of October 2009
North limit of the airport
1 Turtle Dove

Ribeiro Salgado
3 Little Egrets
2 Moorhens
1 Purple Heron - juvenile
1 Grey Heron

5th of October 2009
SE limit of the airport
1 Marsh Harrier - juvenile
2 Wheater
1 Barbary Falcon - probably the same one seen on the 31st of August 2009

Tanque
1 Common Sandpiper
1 Chiffchaf
Still present here were 8 Coots, 1 Ring-necked Duck, 2 Greenshank, 1 Grey Heron

4th of October 2009
On the ferry trip
Cory's shearwaters & Yellow-legged Gulls almost all the way to Porto Santo
4 Fea's Petrels

Beach
4 Sanderlings

Tanque
3 Spoonbills - 1 adult in breeding plumage
2 Grey Herons
9 Coots
1 Ring-necked Duck
2 Common Sandpiper
2 Greenshank
1 Wood Sandpiper
1 Green Sandpiper
1 White Wagtail
1 Dunlin
1 Little Stint
6 Collared Doves