If you'll forgive the pun, the Garraf Massif is massive. So when I first visited I had absolutely no idea where to start looking for the Bonelli's Eagle, Eagle Owl and Black Wheatear (title photo) that the park is famous for.

To make things worse, unlike in the Ebro delta where birds simply flock into your notebook, I soon learned that nature is different here. Birds are either elusive, evasive or both and tracking them down is more like going on safari.

Similarly, a little 'pshing' may lure out Spectacled and Subalpine Warblers curious to know who's making that ridiculous noise, silently blending into the background will tempt out Cirl and Rock Bunting and tracking a flock of Long-tailed Tit will provide amazing close-ups of Firecrest, Crested Tit and Short-toed Treecreeper.

With a little extra effort it becomes clear that there's just as much spectacle here as anywhere else as a second look magically reveals a pair of Golden Oriole in the nearby oak, that those swifts are actually Pallid Swift and that little cracking noise that's been bugging you for twenty minutes is a flock of feeding Hawfinch.

We'll have plenty of time to scan the skies for hunting Bonelli's Eagle, mean time searching the trees for its namesake, Bonelli's Warbler, as well as Woodchat Shrike, Golden Oriole and Serin.

Finches, Buntings, Larks and Rock Sparrows form post-breeding flocks in this final section of the park, but from springtime it becomes home to Ortolan Bunting, Hoopoe and Red-rumped Swallow - and even Ring Ouzel pass through on migration.

A Llobregat Delta - Garraf Massif tour is also available.

I am currently in the process of setting up special evening 'Eagle Owl' tours, which will be available at certain times of the year so please ask.