17th March 2009 - on a full-day birdwatching tour
Ponta do Pargo
1 Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
Lugar de Baixo
1 Green-wing Teal Anas carolinensis
3 Dunlins Calidris alpina
1 Common sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
First 3 Common Terns Sterna hirundo seen in 2009
Ribeira da Janela
1 Teal Anas crecca
1 Green-wing Teal
São Vicente
4 Whimbrels Numenius phaeopus
1 Common sandpiper
20th March 2009 - on a half-day birdwatching tour
Machico
approx. 20 Red-rumped Swallows Cecropis daurica
1 House Martin Delichon urbica
Caniçal
3 Skylark Alauda arvensis
2 Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra
21st March 2009 at Lugar de baixo
Green-wing Teal
Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius
2 Dunlins
Ribeira Brava
14 House Martins
2 Red-rumped Swallows
22nd March 2009 at Funchal - seen by Klaus Flemløse
Iceland Gull Larus glaucus