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\"Cattle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Phew\u2026\u2026. an early start and it\u2019s still scorching – far too easy to underestimate the size of the S\u2019Albufera.<\/p>\n

Although we\u2019ve visited before in May and September it was still a surprise to feel the heat building up so quickly in early June. Coupled with the humidity trapped between the 18ft high reedbeds by mid-day it was uncomfortably hot. With young mouths to feed plenty of action from the Cattle Egrets with the adults repeatedly flying over the footpaths adjacent to the visitor centre.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"Cattle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Cattle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Trying to obtain a clear view of the nesting birds proved far more difficult. Sharing the herony also a few distant Squacco Herons and the inevitable Little Egrets.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Male<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Great to see (and hear) the resident Sardinian Warblers.<\/p>\n

This pair appeared to be nesting under one of the viewing platforms. Unfortunately despite being almost everywhere the Fan-tailed and Cetti Warblers were less accommodating.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"Female<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Male<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Male<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Nightingale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Frustratingly the Nightingale\u2019s remained in the heavy shade.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Dragonfly\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Plenty of insects to be found along the edges of the footpaths especially Dragonflies and Clouded Yellow butterflies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Clouded<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Farm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Upon reaching the far end of the Cami de ses puntas we were finally beaten by the heat and turned around for the slow walk back to the Gran Canal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phew\u2026\u2026. an early start and it\u2019s still scorching – far too easy to underestimate the size of the S\u2019Albufera. Although we\u2019ve visited before in May and September it was still a surprise to feel the heat building up so quickly in early June. Coupled with Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,183,4,15],"tags":[818,821,822,820,816,817,819,823],"class_list":["post-5350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-flora","category-insects","category-landscapes","tag-cattle-egret","tag-clouded-yellow","tag-dragonfly","tag-nightingale","tag-parque-natural-salbufera-de-mallorca","tag-salbufera","tag-sardinian-warbler","tag-sweet-scabious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350","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=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5489,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions\/5489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}