Phespirit goes to Fuerteventura
Jandía     September 2009

SPOONBILLS

Fuerteventura's bleak, barren, wind-ravaged landscape is capable of sustaining life even more sophisticated than tourists.

Here is a group of four Spoonbills on Playa de Sotaventa, for example, .....

KENTISH PLOVERS

..... and here are four Kentish Plovers flying over the surf a little further to the south .....

BARBARY GROUND SQUIRREL

..... whilst on the higher ground at the back of Playa de Sotaventa, Phespirit feeds pine kernals to a Barbary Ground Squirrel.

This fellow was one of dozens that mobbed him for treats before thirstily lapping up the fresh water that he poured into a small rock hollow, and finishing with a nice dust bath.