23 April 2012


Eleonora's Falcon, Ipsilou (c) Steve Dudley

Blue skies, light southerly breeze, 25C

Kalloni Saltpans & Alykes Wetlands
BAILLON'S CRAKE - 1
Common Pochard - fem 
Merlin - 1
Gull-billed Tern - 26
Marsh Sandpiper - 2
Curlew Sandpiper - 9
Little Crake - 1
Short-toed Lark - 15
Garganey - 3 males
Fan-tailed Warbler - 2 (1 by river mouth by beach cafe, 1 at east end of Alykes Wetlands sheepfields)
Montagu's Harrier - 1st sum male

Perasma Reservoir
Common Pochard - male

Dipi Larisos
Pygmy Cormorant - 2

Tsiknias River
Citrine Wagtail - 4 (2 males, 2 females)
Oystercatcher - 1
Little Bittern - 1
Glossy Ibis - 9
Mediterranean Gull - 2
Red-throated Pipit - 1
Collared Flycatcher - 1
Marsh Sandpiper - 1

Kantria
Whiskered Tern - 1

Skala Kallonis Pool
Night-heron - 3
Gull-billed Tern - 5
Little Crake - 4

Ipsilou
Pallid Harrier - ad fem
Eleonora's Falcon - 1 pale phase 
Lesser Kestrel - 4+
Usual Cinereous Bunting, Isabelline Wheatear, etc - no passage passerine migrants

Sigri Fields
Red-backed Shrike - male
Collared Flycatcher - 4+
Common Redstart - 1
Wood Warbler - 1
Orphean Warbler - 1
Tree Pipit - 3
Lesser Kestrel - 16+
plus Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, etc

Faneromeni 
Common Snipe - 1
Ruddy Shelduck - 2
Great Reed Warbler - 1
Cretzschmar's Bunting - 2
Rock Dove - 13

Lardia Valley
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler - 3 singing males
Red-footed Falcon - male
Short-toed Eagle - 2
Alpine Swift - 40+
Usual Rock Sparrow, Crag Martin, Long-legged Buzzard

Meladia Valley
Golden Oriole - 4 in fig grove

Soumouria Scops Copse
Scops Owl - 1 (in euclyptus with lilac sprig attached)

Kavaki
Ruppell's Warbler - 5 singing males
Sardinian Warbler
Blue Rock-thrush

Papania
Scops Owl - 1
Long-eared Owl - 1
both owls in trees at the school

Kalloni Raptor Watchpoint
Lanner - 1
Black Stork - 7
Short-toed Eagle
Long-legged Buzzard
Lesser Kestrel
Goshawk - 1
Red-footed Falcon - 1
Peregrine - 2
Sardinian Warbler - 1
Sardinian Warbler - 1

Christou River
Spotted Crake - 1
Purple Heron - 3
Hobby - 1

Kalami
Black Stork - 11

Reasonable numbers of Tree Pipits and Whinchat reported today, plenty of Alpine Swifts over and several reports of calling Bee-eaters over.