22 April 2011 - Ring Ouzel steals the day

Wall to wall sunshine! Very warm but tempered by the cool north-easterly wind. Some small pools immediately starting to evaporate with all-day sun!

Two clear nights has seen a considerable clear out of warblers and flycatchers in particular. Still some Collared and Pied Flys around, and at least one Semi-collared remains.

Semi-collared flycatchers – really? See here.

Ipsilou - RING OUZEL female.

Vouvaris River area - RUFOUS-TAILED ROCK-THRUSH male (reported to be on wires 1.5km north of Achladeri which equals the fields near Vouvaris River bridge), Kruper's Nuthatch 2, Serin 3.

Kalloni Raptor Saltpans - SPUR-WINGED PLOVER 1 (in pans just in from saltworks entrance), Citrine Wagtail male, Red-footed Falcon 2, Lesser Kestrel 1, Glossy Ibis 110+, Temminck's Stint 3, Gull-billed Tern 40, Little Stint 20, Dunlin 1, Hen Harrier 1, Montagu's Harrier 1. Alykes Wetlands Short-toed Lark 8, Red-throated Pipit 3, Tawny Pipit 2.

Achladeri - SEMI-COLLARED FLYCATCHER male in pines and on wires opp white building with Collared and Pied Flys; Wood Warbler 5, Masked Shrike.

Dipi Larisos Reedbed - FAN-TAILED WARBLER 1.

Lotzaria beach pools - Collared Pratincole 20+, Spotted Redshank 1, Curlew Sandpiper 1, Dunlin 2, Marsh Sandpiper 5, Little Stint 45, Greenshank 2, Quail 1, Chukar 1.

Christou River - Slender-billed Gull 2, Caspian Tern 1, Red-throated Pipit 2, Gull-billed Tern 17, Squacco Heron 3, Meadow Pipit, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler.

Metochi Lake - Little Crake 7, Purple Heron 3, Squacco Heron 3, Night-heron 1, Little Bittern 2, Collared Flycatcher 3, Savi's Warbler 2.

Potamia Valley - Ortolan Bunting 2, Collared Flycatcher 1, Long-legged Buzzard 2.

Molivos - Merlin 1.

Tsiknias River - Savi's Warbler 2, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler.

Kalami Marsh - White-winged Black Tern 3, Whiskered Tern 1, Little Crake fem.

Kavaki - Ruppell's Warbler showing well, Orphean Warbler, many flocks of migrating Spanish Sparrows.

Hotel Pasiphae, Skala Kallonis - Garganey (on pool behind hotel), Long-eared Owl pr calling behind hotel.

Napi Valley - Red-footed Falcon 3.

Efthalou - Scopoli's Sherwater 8, Yelkouan Sherwater 80.

Dimitrios - Eastern Olivaceous Warbler 1, Wood Warbler 2.