A pleasant week in Madeira. Very limited on avifauna but some new birds nonetheless...
Cory's Shearwater (many, inc a group of 75 on the water)
Bulwer's Petrel -2
Madieran Firecrest - common in parks
Canary - numerous in Funchal
Trocaz Pigeon - several seen below us from the Balcoes viewpoint)
(Madeiran Chaffinch)
Had higher hopes but regrettably a birding tour company cancelled both reserved trips (4 hour endemic trip and 6 hour Pelagic)...
The boat trip we took out was therefore a tourist trip which, when both Whale (in this case Bryde's) and Dolphin (Bottlenose) were secured, the agenda then switch to sailing to a shallow cove for swimming. Better than nothing!
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| Elusive and timid... |
