Spent much of Thursday on the peninsular at the eastern tip of Madeira (Sao Laurenco). The ridge was full of flowers and finally saw a Berthelot's pipit. A very obliging individual picking off small insects within just a few feet of the path.
Having seen and heard lots of canaries during the week, I was not at first at all surprised to hear them singing whilst walking along, even though there are few trees on the peninsula. What I did not expect was to see a flock of several hundred of the birds. They were quite a sight as they rose and swirled from one patch of grassland to another. Although there was a covering of a rape like flower, these were not seeding and so what the canaries were feeding upon remains a mystery. Great to see them in such numbers.
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