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Heading down into the Camargue we drove to la Capelliere, a reserve just east of Etang de Vaccarés. We stopped just north of here next to a marshy area with very tall reeds. Here we saw two Great Reed Warblers, one Cetti's Warbler, two Melodious Warblers, six Zitting Cisticolas and House Sparrow. Also we found some small green tree-frogs.
The reserve itself was quiet and rather dry. We did get lots of Cetti's Warblers as we walked around plus a juvenille Black-crowned Night-heron and a few Little Egrets.
Driving back north up the D368 we added one Little Gull flying over Etang de Vaccarès. We turned left along the D37 and stopped at a place called Mas du Cabassolle. We stopped here to watch a group of 47 Cattle Egrets and eight Little Egrets feeding amongst a herd of cows.
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| Cattle Egret on a white Camargue horse |
Next stop was Mas d'Agon. Here we had five Little Egrets, Purple Heron, ten Whiskered Terns, Great Crested Grebe and Common Coot. A few hundred metres north of here, where the road passes over a stream, we added six Squacco Herons, six Little Egrets, Western Marsh-Harrier and Great Reed Warbler.
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| Mas d'Agon |
Back down the road of Mas d'Agon and west along the D37, we turned left to Mejanes. There is a path from here to the north-western corner of Etang de Vaccarès. From this path we saw Western Marsh-Harrier, Greater Flamingo, one, two then three Caspian Terns, 43 Wood Sandpipers, about 210 Northern Shoveler, ten Little Terns, one Pied Avocet and hundreds of Common Coot.
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| Greater Flamingoes, Vaccarès |
We decided to go back to Mas d'Agon to look again at the egrets and herons. This time we saw three Squacco Herons, 23 Little Egrets, and seven Purple Herons in a marsh with only their heads and upper necks showing. Back up at the bridge over the stream were two Squacco Herons, two Black Terns and one Whiskered Tern.
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