Nature Reserve Ricarda-Ca L'Arana Bird Watching

This site is a wetland area adjacent to the Llobregat River. It's a pleasant place for a stroll, but the real draw is the bird watching. From the park entrance we go down to the banks of the Llobregat. Here is an excellent place to see flamingos, gulls, cormorants, egrets, and gray herons.
We then follow a raised path that leads past pastures where semi-wild horses graze. Depending on the time of year this is a good place to see various wading birds such as cattle and little egrets, black-winged stilts and golden plovers, as well as larks, serins, flycatchers, goldfinches and wagtails.
A walk along a path flanked by reeds and blackberries brings us to a hide which looks out over a large lagoon. Again depending on the time of year, we might see little grebes, marsh harriers, purple gallinules, kentish plovers, shelducks, gadwalls, red-crested pochards, barnacle geese, graylag geese, ferruginous dcuks kingfishers, lapwiings, common snipe, and others.
We then head toward the sea and enter another bird hide, which looks over a separate section of the same lagoon. All of the same species of birds may be seen here.
After that we follow a path that takes us to the river and to a tower which looks out over saline lagoons and sand dunes. Here we may see various waders, including kentish plovers and spotted redshanks, along with gulls, cormorants, and terns.
Our return route takes us along the Llobregat River, until we turn and follow a path that takes us back to our original trail.