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Here's a few maps to some of the sites we visited.  You might have to zoom out a bit but the green arrow should show the general areas I'm trying to point out.


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This is the area where we saw Brown -throated Sand Martin, other teams have dipped on this since the outer parts of the river became saline.


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This site is one we stumbled across.  The man made reservoirs with overflow pool, in spring this is probably a brilliant migrant trap.  The scrub along the river had a few Scrub Warblers.


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Probably not worth putting this one in but this is where we had Rock Martins in 2006.  Doubt they will be regular here but anyone passing might want to have a quick scan.  Then again I reckon the hirundines will be mobile so any of the other rivers the road crosses could hold them, we've seen Crag martin further north in a similar area.


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We weren't allowed into the port at Tan Tan Plage, it seems a bit hit and miss gaining access.  However we did see lots of Gulls just outside on the beach including lots of Audouin's.  Many of them were ringed and presumably from the Ebro colony in Spain.  Towel and Gristi took some ring details but don't know if they're received anything back yet.  We stopped at the 3 river crossing between Tan Tan Plage and Akfennir abd saw a few more Audoin's and a few waders but nothing really special.  One of the sites had about 500+ Common Scoter offshore which we were surprised to see this far south, just goes to show you're always learning.


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Lastly I'm putting this one in just to show the size of the place, If you go to the Kniffiss Lagoon and want to tick Kelp Gull I'd say you need to get a boat out to the island otherwise you are looking at a massive distance and really would you be happy ticking them?  I wouldn't.  The marker is the island where the birds breed, you view from the south side next to the barely visible building!