Portugal Birding: March 2025

 Portugal?  Who goes to Portugal?

Turns out to be a lot of people.  Though not all of them are looking for birds.

We booked an eight day bird tour for March, but arrived three days earlier so we would have time to do a bit of touristy stuff.  Not surprisingly, we managed to see a few birds in that time as well.

New bird: female Black Redstart.  Day -3

New Bird: Day -1  Crested Myna

New Bird: Day 1 The first of many White Storks

New Bird: Day 2  Common Redshank

New Bird: Day 3  Red Kite

New Bird: Day 4  Dartford Warbler

New Bird: Day 5  Little Owl

New Bird: Day 6  Common Shelduck

New Bird: Day 7  Little Grebe

New Bird: Day 8  Eurasian Spoonbill

All together we saw 148 birds, 99 of which were new life birds.

I don't have photos of them all, of course, and some of the photos I have are really poor.  

Two bonus photos: 

The Black-winged Stilt is as cute as could be.

And Greater Flamingos showing less pink than I was expecting.

 Our tour was through Birds and Nature Tours Portugal with guide Pedro.  He was great, the birds were great, the food was great.  The only thing I found disappointing was that we were too early for the spring migrants from Africa.