Portugal Wildlife
Recent Sightings 2022 - A blog of interesting sightings in the year.
A gallery of photographs of recent sightings.
Common Snipe ; Common Earthball ;
Common Darter ; Juvenile Black Stork ; Black Kite ; Spiked Water Milfoil ;
Lang's Short-tailed Blues showing Courtship Behaviour ; Strawberry Tree flowers ; Iberian Badger ; Wild Boar ;
Bath White feeding on Yellow Fleabane ; Woodlark in Song Flight ; Small Spreadwing ; European Mantis hunting a Lang's Short-tailed Blue ;
Maria's Worm Lizard ; Garden Dormouse carrying baby in her mouth on way to nestbox ; Eurasian Hobby ; First sighting of European Rabbit at Windmill Pond :
European Crested Tit ; Juvenile Viperine Snake ; Juvenile Viperine Snake hunting Eastern Mosquitofish ; Juvenile Purple Heron at Hide Pond ;
Iberian Badger at Bulrush Pond ; Common Nightingale at Bulrush Pond ; Epaulet Skimmer ; Male Violet Dropwing ;
Male Iberian Mongoose ; Western Bonelli's Warbler ; Iberian Pond Turtle ; Wild Boar drinking at Bulrush Pond ;
Andalusian Barbel spawninbg at night ; Male House Sparrow landing at Bulrush Pond ; European Greenfinch ; Woodchat Shrike with insect prey ;
Eurasian Eagle Owl at Windmill Pond ; Male Violet Dropwing ; Cattle Egret in breeding plumage at Bulrush Pond ; Wild Boar ;
Lesser Water Plantain in Bulrush Pond ; Iberian sub-Species of Yellow Wagtail - Photo by Chris ; Sea Club-Rush ; Common Galingale ;
Male Montagu's Harrier ; Mediterranean Polecat on beach of Bulrush Pond ; Female European Wildcat ; Southwestern Water Vole ;
One of our regular flock of Feral Pigeons foraging; Strawberry Tree flowering ; Iberian Water Frog leaping away from Iberian Mongoose as it approaches Bulrush Pond for a drink ; Green Hairstreak feeding on Rosemary ;
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