Today we hired a guide,
Georg Schreier for the day to show us some Eastern Algarve specialities and then onto the plains at Castro Verde. The temperatures were 40C plus up there mid day but I did manage six Western Pal ticks in an excellent days birding. First up, two White-rumped Swifts and Crag Martins.

Also Azure-winged Magpie

We then drove up to Mertola where amazingly we had another White-rumped Swift