Tenerife - 2015

As part of my hard drive salvage a while back, had been meaning to post some shots of a Canaries trip in 2015. Superb birding in a beautiful setting.


Cory's Shearwaters - the baseline shearwater in the Canaries. Great birds though, and passing under a colony just before dawn, seeing and hearing them batting around above us and in front of headlights was a privilege.


Berthelots pipit


Southern Grey Shrike


Canary Islands Chiffchaff - that longer, slightly decurved bill, with it's downward hooked upper mandible tip, struck me as distinct from other chiffs.


Pino Gordo - the biggest tree in Europe


Canary Islands Chiffchaff


Flying Fish


The view from Punta de Teno


Berthelots Pipits


Canary Islands Chaffinch


Canary


El Teide


Blue Chaffinch


Cory's Shearwater - the only seabird species we managed to photograph, though we did encounter, Little Shearwaters, Great Shearwater, Fea's Petrel, Madeiran Petrel and White Faced Petrel.


Blue Chaffinch


Canary Islands Blue Tit


Blue Chaffinch


Cory's Shearwater


Canary Islands Chaffinch


Blue Chaffinch


Canary


Blue Chaffinch - the restaurant on the northern road out of El teide crater had good feeders, and was a far more amenable place to view Blue Chaffinch and Canary than the natural habitat.


So many Cory's


Plain Swift


Bolles Pigeon - the cloud forest which held these pigeons was a spectacular setting, if a little light on bird species. Finding these pigeons was a challenge.

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