Still here at the moment and a full report will follow but thought I'd just post a few pics to start things off.
Now back home so here goes.
We arrived around lunchtime on the 27th September and our first birds of the trip were seen on the approach to Faro airport, groups of Greater Flamingos feeding on the marshes beneath us. The transfer to our hotel in Alvor was fairly uneventful with our first Spotless Starlings and Azure-winged Magpies seen en route. A scan around the area from our balcony added Cattle Egrets feeding around a horse and a covey of Red-legged Partridge. A walk in the same area added some migrant Stone and Whinchats along with Zitting Cisticola.
We had arranged for Simon Wates to pick us up at 7am on Wednesday 28th and the day was spent in the Sagres area where both passerine and raptor migrants were in evidence. When we arrived at the raptor watch point my first lifer of the trip was circling overhead giving good views, a Black Stork. Most of the migrants were very high but we still managed to see Golden, Booted and Short-toed Eagles, Honey and Common Buzzards, Peregrine and Hobby, Goshawk and Sparrowhawk and Black Kite. All in all a good start.