{"id":5177,"date":"2018-06-07T19:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T19:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2018-11-18T20:46:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T20:46:07","slug":"salbufereta-puerto-pollensa-mallorca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=5177","title":{"rendered":"S\u2019Albufereta – Puerto Pollensa, Mallorca"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"Purple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Just before 6.30am and a Purple Heron appears on the edge of the pool.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Purple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moving slowly towards us with eyes fixed on its prey suddenly it strikes trapping a young Eel in its bill.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Purple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Eel wraps itself around the heron’s bill in a bid to escape.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Purple<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reappearing from behind the rushes the Purple Heron minus Eel walks back into view.<\/p>\n

What a great start to a couple of weeks in Mallorca. It’s not often we manage to find a hotel that backs onto a nature reserve however the location of the PortBlue Club Pollentia is superb. Surrounded by the\u00a0S\u2019Albufereta on the outskirts of\u00a0 Puerto Pollensa the hotel even has its own bird hide!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"Spotted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Plenty of Spotted Flycatchers around. A shame they’re become so uncommon back home.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Spotted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Happy to perch on any available post or in this case fenceline it’s surprising just how common they are in Mallorca. Almost every group of Cypress tree seems to have a resident Flycatcher.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Hoopoe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Just around the corner from the hotel a small area of woodland is home to at least 1 pair of Hoopoes. For such a large showy bird its amazing how shy they can be. Trying to photograph one in flight proved to be a bit too much of a challenge. In fact, sneaking up on one feeding on the woodland floor was difficult enough.<\/p>\n

A link to an incredible video of Hoopoes<\/a>……………..One day !<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"Hoopoe\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Scabious<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scabious growing on the edge of the marsh.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Painted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A Painted Lady basking in the early morning sunshine.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Just before 6.30am and a Purple Heron appears on the edge of the pool. Moving slowly towards us with eyes fixed on its prey suddenly it strikes trapping a young Eel in its bill. The Eel wraps itself around the heron’s bill in a bid Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,183,4,15],"tags":[815,538,812,814,813],"class_list":["post-5177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-flora","category-insects","category-landscapes","tag-hoopoe","tag-painted-lady","tag-purple-heron","tag-scabious","tag-spotted-flycatcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5348,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions\/5348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}