These are some of the birds we can observe during our trip: Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove, Turtle Dove, Common Swift, Pallid Swift, Kingfisher, Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Barn Swallow, Red-rumped Swallow, House Martin, Grey Wagtail, Robin, Nightingale, Blackbird, Blackcap, Sardinian Warbler, Western Olivaceous Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Short-toed Treecreeper, Jay, Spotless Starling, Golden Oriole, House Sparrow, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Serin and Cirl Bunting.
Itinerary
El Burgo is a beautiful village placed to the north of the Sierra de las Nieves District and surrounded by rough mountains: Sierra Blanquilla (west), Sierra de Ortegicar (north), Sierra de Alcaparain (northeast), Sierra Cabrilla (southeast) and Sierra de las Nieves (southwest) from where the Rio del Burgo flows across a narrow valley surrounded by cliffs and pinewoods first, and a wider one dotted with olive, almond and walnut trees and orchards about on it as it approaches the village.
This last stretch of the river is covered by a lush river forest made of ashes, poplars, willows, oleander, bramble and sedge, home for not only birds but also reptiles, butterflies and dragonflies. There is nothing better in August, to cool ourselves down, than sharing the ponds and dykes at the end of our route, with their cold and limpid waters, with barbels, frogs, otters and kingfishers.
Birds that can be seen
- Barn swallow
- Cirl bunting
- Common blackbird
- Common chaffinch
- Common house martin
- Common kingfisher
- Common nightingale
- Common swift
- Common wood pigeon
- Eurasian blackcap
- Eurasian blue tit
- Eurasian collared dove
- Eurasian golden oriole
- Eurasian jay
- European goldfinch
- European green woodpecker
- European greenfinch
- European robin
- European serin
- European turtle dove
- Great spotted woodpecker
- Great tit
- Grey wagtail
- House sparrow
- Pallid swift
- Red-rumped swallow
- Sardinian warbler
- Short-toed treecreeper
- Spotless starling
- Spotted flycatcher
- Western olivaceous warbler