angie mccready

i have lived here for over 5 years now and for the first time have had the pleasure of having the most beautiful birds flying over and around our house.
i looked them up on the internet and they are bee eaters! has anyones else seen them and if so which area?
we live in salinas which is 30 or so kilometres inland of alicante

Fredbargate

If you look closely you will see this one's dropped it's bee

missile

If you are into wildlife, there are some very nice quite spots away from the coast. I would recommend a trip to Sierra de espuna national park>

angie mccready

i did read up on them and its not so much the bees that they eat.
they eat anything that flys in the insect world, especially wasps and cicaenas (bet thats spelled wrong lol)
we have had a terrible problem with wasps this summer...thousands of them...so maybe thats what the attraction has been.
they will be away soon to africa so im enjoying watching them while they are here

snikpoh

We have lots of them here - they have a very particular noise that they make and a very distinct way of flying.

(Ontinyent, Valencia)

megmet

We get lot's of them here in the Guadalhorce Valley near Alora, we are inland about 40klms from Malaga.

xxfrecklesxx

Had lots of them up here in the mountain in Bocairent a couple of months ago... beautiful birds, just wish they had eaten more of the wasps, so I didnt get stung a few times... and had to rush to the doctors..

scampicat

Loads of them here in Las Alpujarras (mountainous bit of Granada Province).

lynnxa

did you get a new job with the tourist board

scampicat

Sounds like it, doesn't it?!!

I've actually been in the UK since the beginning of June (returning November) so haven't seen bee-eaters this year, but there have been loads every other year. Don't suppose this year is different!