First blog of the year, Happy New Year! It’s been very busy over Christmas but nothing a week away with Jodie in Tenerife couldn’t fix. This is only my second time on a plane and my second time to Tenerife. I’ve not had many chances to travel like this growing up but I have enjoyed Tenerife, as, despite the much hotter climate and vastly different habitats, I couldn’t help but notice many similarities. The list of birds wasn’t large, but I added a few extras from my last trip, in the form of Barbary Partridges, Sardinian Warbler, Blackcap, Blackbird, Great Tit, African Blue Tit, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, Monks Parakeet, Canary Chiffchaff, African Collared Dove, Canary, and plenty of Kestrels. It wasn’t a birding trip, I actually only brought my Macro Lens with me for portability. All the photo’s below were taken with a 100mm lens, which presented its challenges, especially with the Red Rock Crabs which were hot on their toes the minute your head pops over the rocks. Most of the Reptiles are endemic, such as the Tenerife Lizard, of which there are two subspecies between the north and south. These are the northern variety. Anyway, I’ll leave you with these photographs, I’ll interject a few more in later blogs but I didn’t take that many.
