A favourite birding spot for many birders and twitchers is Quinta do Lago, and it is somewhere we frequented too. We always parked at the end of the runway and strolled through Ludo and Lagoa de São Lourenço. It has changed hugely since we first visited in 2014, including an unwelcome increase in the number of people using the area for jogging and cycling. However on one visit it wasn’t the humans that were annoying us but a plane.

It repeatedly landed and took off, driving us crazy as we had only just parked the car and so it was moving forward with us as we walked and was also very close overhead.

Eventually, when we were almost halfway through out walk, we were a sufficient distance from its flight path and could focus once more on the birds.

We later discovered it was being used for pilot training; apparently they don’t always use flight simulators. This is a move forward we could have done without!

By the way have you spotted what else is almost halfway? The challenge!

Tomorrow is the halfway point for #SquaresRenew. How many squares have you shared so far this month? And how many have you visited? If your numbers are still in single digits, then that is okay. There is only one rule for the Square Gang – your photograph must be square in shape!

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