Travelled with Ryanair. Dublin to Marseilles-Provence. Car Hire. Booked on Ryanair website. Les Trois Puits. Found on Fatbirder site. This is a beautiful area of rural France and a great base for exploring the Camargue and surrounding areas. Philippe J. Page No. Scale , Camargue Regional National Park Map.
Scale , ISBN. Etang de Berre. I decided to check locally. Leaving the airport I turned right on to the D9 and after 2km. This road runs alongside the SW boundary of the airport, between the road and the airport is a landfill site which has turned to patchy scrub. Here was my 1st. On this side of the road a little further on are more open areas of marsh with pools, There were lots of Black-winged Stilt and Little Egret.
A little further along this road is Plage de Jai. Also in this area was a Carrion Crow? With light brown tail and wings. At the West end of the causeway there is a narrow bridge, after crossing this mts. This area had good numbers of Common and Alpine Swifts , across the road from here was another area of scrub with good numbers of Cattle Egret feeding on Grasshoppers and Crickets.
This area has Avocets and Black-winged Stilts. Further along the N which runs through the Plaine de la Crau, p. The last bird of the day was a Black Redstart from my bedroom window.
Just alongside the town of Vauvert, SW of Nimes, is a canal, access is via a dirt track beside the railway track about mts from the Lidl store, this track is in poor condition but can be driven with care.
