I immediately set off for Minerve for yet another attempt for Alpine Accentors.
As I got out of the car in the bottom of the gorge the usual plethora of Blackcaps and Sardinian Warblers were all around me and two Blue Rock Thrushes flew overhead.
I pressed on along the path at the bottom of the cliffs, a route I had followed on all my previous visits. Then suddenly a bird popped up on to the rocky ledges by my side. Bingo! A superb Alpine Accentor. Even though the sun was out the bird frustratingly kept in the shadows making photography tricky. I kept at it for some time and finally the bird flew up onto a wall in the sunshine. Sod's Law I could get close but was looking straight into the sun. Ah well I caught up with one of these gorgeous birds at last. Finding them in winter beats walking miles up to high altitude in the Pyrennees in summer.
I also checked out a Bonelli's Eagle site but no activity yet. I did see two bees and a grasshopper in the midday sun.
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