Barcelona

Just had a great few days in Barcelona (30/09 - 05/10). Not really too much in the way of wildlife about. The place was literally infested with Monk Parakeets & smaller numbers of Ring Necked Parakeets. Best birds were a few Crested Tits, several Sardinian Warblers, a Spotted Flycatcher, several Sandwich Terns & Yellow-Legged Gulls.

Parc de la Ciutadella in the south of the city held several interesting butterfly species including a typically flighty Clouded Yellow, a Painted Lady and two new ones for me with several
Long-Tailed Blues and a Geranium Bronze. The Geranium Bronze in particular is quite an interesting one having been accidentally introduced into Europe in the late 1980s from South Africa.