The newspaper gijonés
"El Comercio" in its issue of the day June 7 brings the news of the opening of River Park Piles. One of the areas preferred by some champions of those who collaborate in this blog, it has a great mind and a huge potential for the future. The link to the news:
http://www.elcomerciodigital.com/v/20100607/gijon/gijon-abre-jueves-zona-20100607.html
However, the huge whirlwind of water that fell for several days last week that the site was flooded and the opening was postponed. We remember those who read us the big pond is designed Riverside Park to serve as an overflow of the river flow when there are abnormal floods from heavy rains that bring some storms. In subsequent editions of the newspaper "El Comercio" you can see some photos of the floods caused by overflowing of the river
http://www.elcomerciodigital.com/v/20100611/gijon/gijon-desbordado-lluvias -20100611.html
This picture is more complicated than the broods of different waterfowl that nest on the site can move forward and become adults. If you want the Riverside Park is a landmark in the east of Gijón, a bird observatory that aims to fit on the hill of the large pond, panels, etc., should undertake a reform that, whatever the water level is reached, there is always an elevated, dry and secure where birds can nest.
Miguel Puente Prendergast brings news of another wetland of Gijón, the San Andres reservoir Heels. Nor has it escaped the flood water level. Yesterday, Monday, all the dam's floodgates were open and draining the excess water stored. The result of increased water in reservoirs was that many proposals have been lost waterfowl. Mainly for the common Coots Fulica atra and Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis. Have disappeared under the water, for example, two common Coot nests Miguel was controlled. The good news is that chickens are grown in Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus :
are also, though very few, Common Coot chicks. And Michael saw the two have approximately one and a half old. There probably was a great slaughter in the lagging brood.
A photo of a Little Grebe, of which Michael saw two:
addition to this that I discussed, Miguel saw the following: Mallards Anas platyrhynchos , great cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo (2), Common Swifts Apus apus in large numbers, common aircraft Delichum urbicum , Sand Martin Riparia riparia and rockers Aircraft Ptynoprogne rupestris, doves Columba palumbus (20), Common Buzzard Buteo buteo , Black Kite Milvus migrans , large Ravens Corvus corax , Common Magpie Pica pica , gulls of various species Larus sp. and several passerines.
As a curiosity (sad), mention to a message Ivan Diaz Pallares, the administrator of the blog "Learning to fly", whose link you have in the right column of the homepage of this blog, has posted on the forum of the COA in the message that Ivan had witnessed the looting the nests of a colony of Common Swifts by a common Magpies. They took almost everything. Including some adults. It is still one more episode in the struggle for life. Eat or be eaten. Kill to live. But it's sad to contemplate. Common Magpie, as the Jays Garrulus glandarius long ago have greatly increased their numbers. What are the causes? The know. But I suspect that the decline of natural predators (Accipiter gentilis Goshawk , peregrine falcons Falco peregrinus ), among others, has something to do with it.
Regarding the Iberian painted frog Discoglossus galganoi is endemic to Northwest Iberian Peninsula. Its distribution includes the western half of Portugal and mainland Spain. In Asturias, although common, is increasingly rare presence as you move further east. In our region can be found from almost sea level to fairly high levels. But the most common altitude where we can reach is between 200 and 300 meters. The main threats to the species are destruction and habitat alteration. We have seen, for example, American Red Crabs Procambarus clarkii and larvae feeding on proposals.
The painted frog that we showed today is located in an area recently Deva where they had seen some put a little over a month. In a subsequent visit to observe the evolution of rates, one of the contributors to this blog photographed this specimen in the vicinity:
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