These are some of the birds we can observe around here in October: Mallard, Common Scoter, Little Grebe, Scopoli’s Shearwater, Balearic Shearwater, Gannet, Cormorant, Cattle Egret, Little Egret, Grey Heron, Kestrel, Moorhen, Coot, Sanderling, Black-headed Gull, Mediterranean Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, Audouin’s Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Sandwich Tern, Razorbill, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove, Kingfisher, Meadow Pipit, White Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Robin, Black Redstart, Stonechat, Blackbird, Blackcap, Sardinian Warbler, Cetti’s Warbler, Chiffchaff, Wren, Spotless Starling, House Sparrow and Greenfinch.
Itinerary
Despite the coast of Marbella and Estepona is a very built-up area, we can still find some places to take our bins, telescope and camera out and go birding once the bulk of the tourism “rush” is over in October.
In this occasion we suggest visiting the mouths of two typical short rivers coming from the nearby mountain ranges along the coast, Guadalmansa and Verde, and some of the last coastal dunes of the European Mediterranean, the “Dunas de Artola”, a Natural Monument included in the Andalusian Network of Protected Natural Sites.
Birds that can be seen
- African stonechat
- Audouin's gull
- Balearic shearwater
- Black redstart
- Black-headed gull
- Cattle egret
- Cetti's warbler
- Common blackbird
- Common chiffchaff
- Common kestrel
- Common kingfisher
- Common moorhen
- Common scoter
- Common wood pigeon
- Eurasian blackcap
- Eurasian collared dove
- Eurasian coot
- European greenfinch
- European robin
- Great cormorant
- Grey heron
- Grey wagtail
- House sparrow
- Lesser black-backed gull
- Little egret
- Little grebe
- Mallard
- Meadow pipit
- Mediterranean gull
- Northern gannet
- Razorbill
- Sanderling
- Sandwich tern
- Sardinian warbler
- Scopoli's shearwater
- Spotless starling
- White wagtail
- Wren
- Yellow-legged gull