Though weather has not been proper for birdwatching, here are the highlights for the starting of the vagrant birds season:
1st of March 2010 at Porto da Cruz
Booted Eagle Aquila pennata - light morph or juvenile
28th February 2010 at Porto Santo - observed by Hendrik Jan van Dijk
Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus
Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus
26th February 2010 at Funchal - observed by Hendrik Jan van Dijk
Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis
Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus
22nd February 2010 at São Vicente
1 Hudsonian Whimbrel Numenius (phaeopus) hudsonicus - together with 2 Eurasian Whimbrels
Winds have been blowing strongly from west and southwest so we believe the sightings of vagrant birds will increase in the following days...
