sunset and birds

you can walk north of the Alameda del Tajo along the edge there is a nice promenade but we wanted to go over the bridge and go down a bit. it was a good bird watching spot at this time of the day and we saw a pair of some sort of kestral like bird with pinkish shoulders and dark wing tips. they kept landing on the cliff face and it looked like they were going into the cliff. nesting site perhaps? the booted eagle does inhabit cliffs but it seems too small to be that?? eagle is 45-50cm . kestral is 22 in which is 55cm so maybe it was the booted eagle! I have now read in rough guides that there is a bird called the lesser kestral that inhabits the cliff face...so I think this is what we saw. we walked to another lookout -Mirador de Ronda- where there was an accordian player playing everything from tangos to the macarena to in the mood... just a bit beyond here is where we watched the sunset. a flock of swifts became active as the sun was going down, lots of swallows and a flock of red billed choughs....they make the most unusual sounds. a flock of them are known to roost in the gorge. see here for what they are and sound like. in the crow family. https://ebird.org/species/rebcho1
the pic of the bridge look in the top left corner for colin....that gives you an idea of how big this bridge is!Read more