The Urban Birder in Southern France

 Alpine Accenter the prize bird in Les Baux

I have spent a glorious week co-leading a Shetland Wildlife tour of Southern France that took in parts of the Camargue and the French Pyrennes.

We managed to catch up with a host of great species, some of which were not expected to have been seen so easily and quickly such as Eagle Owl and Slender-billed Gull.

 Alpine Accentor habitat in Les Baux

 House Sparrows in a White Stork's nest

 A Booted Eagle being mobbed by a Yellow-legged Gull

 Two gorgeous Greater Flamingos over the Camargue

 The Shetland Wildlife Tour participants

 A foggy male Dartford Warbler

 A Pyrenean scene

 A Golden Eagle eyeing us up

 A flyby Great Cormorant

A flyaway Yellow-legged Gull

We are doing it all over again on 20 - 26 February 2015. Join me then.

Shetland Wildlife Southern France Tour 21 - 27 February 2014

Great Crested Grebe

Black-necked Grebe

Dabchick

Cormorant

Night Heron

Cattle Egret

Little Egret

Great Egret

Grey Heron

White Stork

Black Stork

Glossy Ibis

Spoonbill

Greater Flamingo

Mute Swan

Greylag

Shelduck

Mallard

Gadwall

Pintail

Shoveler

Wigeon

Red-crested Pochard

Griffon Vulture

Golden Eagle

Booted Eagle

Red Kite

Marsh Harrier

Hen Harrier

Common Buzzard

Sparrowhawk

Kestrel

Merlin

Red-legged Partridge

((Water Rail))

Moorhen

Coot

Crane

Little Bustard

Avocet

Stone Curlew

Ringed Plover

Kentish Plover

Golden Plover

Grey Plover

Lapwing

Sanderling

Dunlin

Little Stint

Spotted Redshank

Redshank

Curlew

Snipe

Ruff

Black-headed Gull

Slender-billed Gull

Mediterranean Gull

Little Gull

Yellow-legged Gull

Pin-tailed Sandgrouse

Feral Pigeon

Stock Dove

Woodpigeon

Collared Dove

Eagle Owl

Kingfisher

((Green Woodpecker))

Skylark

Crested Lark

Woodlark

Calandra Lark

Crag Martin

Water Pipit

Meadow Pipit

White Wagtail

Wren

Alpine Accentor

Robin

Black Redstart

Stonechat

Song Thrush

Blackbird

Blue Rock Thrush

Blackcap

Sardinian Warbler

Dartford Warbler

Moustached Warbler

Zitting Cisticola

Cetti’s Warbler

Chiffchaff

Firecrest

Great Tit

Coal Tit

Crested Tit

Marsh Tit

Long-tailed Tit

Bearded Tit

Penduline Tit

Wallcreeper

((Short-toed Treecreeper))

Iberian Grey Shrike

Magpie

Jackdaw

Rook

Carrion Crow

Raven

Starling

House Sparrow

Tree Sparrow

Rock Sparrow

Chaffinch

Linnet

Goldfinch

Greenfinch

Citril Finch

Siskin

Serin

Crossbill

Reed Bunting

((Cirl Bunting))

Corn Bunting

121   Species

3       Lifers

((heard))