Hourtin Plage Holiday 10th-24th August

We spent two weeks at Hourtin Plage again this year. This time I managed a holiday list of 104 species beating last years list by 23. New birds this year included White Storks, Cattle Egrets, Ospreys, Nightjars, Serin, Tawny Pipits and a Crested Lark.
Seawatching off the beach was rewarding with Balearic Shearwaters moving through the bay most mornings, 14 Black Terns on the 19th, a Sooty Shearwater on the 20th, 2 Arctic Skuas on the 21st.
Hoopoes were more elusive this year with only one seen in Hourtin Plage village on the last day.
Wader numbers were higher than last year with good passage off the beach each morning and 2 juvenile Little Stints and 3 Green Sandpipers on the salt pans at Le Verdon-sur-Mer.

Yellow-legged Gull

Crested Tit

Kentish Plover

Short-toed Eagle

Osprey

Tawny Pipit

Little Stints