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Bee-eaters (Merops apiaster) are annual visitors to Spain where they come to breed after wintering in tropical Africa, India and Sri Lanka. They will eat any flying insect though their choice food is the honey bee: they can eat up to 250 in a day. The bee’s stinger and poison are removed by repeatedly hitting and scraping the insects on a hard surface. Bee-eaters nest in sandy banks as part of large colonies. They number among Europe’s most colourful birds and have an unusually liquid, burry song.

Here, cutting right past a sign Ruta El Abejaruco the track passes through a breach in the hillside, descends, then climbs once again to another junction. Here, bearing slightly right along the main track, you reach a third junction next to a pylon with a yellow warning triangle Alta Tensión. Here keep straight ahead.

The track soon descends, loops downhill, passing beneath electricity lines, to reach a junction (1hr 25min). Here, turning left along a narrow track lined with towering agave, after some 500m you reach a junction. Turning right past a low, white building after 150m you reach a damaged marker post. Here angle hard right and follow a narrow track down through dense vegetation to reach the spring of El Chorrillo (1hr 40min). From here retrace your footsteps back to the junction (1hr 25min) (2hr).