'Cueva del Gato'To celebrate the worldwide day of birds, Juan Luis Munoz Roldan, the director of the ‘Consejeria de Agricultura y Pesca’ for the Junta de Andalucia based in Ronda, organized an ornithological walk along the Guadiaro River last Saturday 4th October.
Juan Luis was the person who originally inspected our land and accordingly granted us farm status for the breeding of our Alpacas. We have since become really good friends with him, so we were delighted to be invited to join his bird watching group.
We met at Benaojan Estacion at 10am and set of at around 10.30 along the river footpath in the direction of Ronda and walked to the Cueva del Gato and back, which took us around 4 hours. Nigel (Cobb) was going to join us, but his Smart car broke down on the way over!
Unfortunately, we didn’t see too many interesting birds, just the odd grey heron (Garza Real) but we did see a pair of Ronda Ibex on the cliff top. Sadly, these beautiful animals are hunted locally. The hunting season starts on the 10th October through to the 10 February in the Malaga Mountain area.
Juan Luis was the person who originally inspected our land and accordingly granted us farm status for the breeding of our Alpacas. We have since become really good friends with him, so we were delighted to be invited to join his bird watching group.
We met at Benaojan Estacion at 10am and set of at around 10.30 along the river footpath in the direction of Ronda and walked to the Cueva del Gato and back, which took us around 4 hours. Nigel (Cobb) was going to join us, but his Smart car broke down on the way over!
Unfortunately, we didn’t see too many interesting birds, just the odd grey heron (Garza Real) but we did see a pair of Ronda Ibex on the cliff top. Sadly, these beautiful animals are hunted locally. The hunting season starts on the 10th October through to the 10 February in the Malaga Mountain area.
'Alfredo with Judith and Lin'
Juan Luis, Fernando, Inma and ChildrenWe were only a small group, comprising of Juan Luis, his wife Inma and two sons, Alfredo and Fernando and their children (friends of Juan Luis) Judith (our friend from Grazelema) and yours truly.
'One of the many fantastic views in and around Benaojan'Along the way we passed the Hotel Molino Cuatro Parabas which is owned by a friend of ours named Philip, with whom I have had a couple of rounds of golf.
'Hotel Molino Cuarto Parabas'
'The Terrace of the Hotel' 
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