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Passerine wise, things certainly slowing down but a mass arrival of waders this afternoon brightening things up for some. First Roller and Icterine Warblers and a few other bits and pieces but more passerines leaving and arriving.
Butterflies - Knapweed Fritillary - someone is working on fritillaries in the Aegean region and would welcome all records especially of Knapweed 'types', and where possible, with photos (particularly of the underwings). You can send records/photos to me via the contact link below left.
Logs - Lesvos Birding logs are in the Hotel Pasiphae and the taverna Dionysos (Skala Kallonis harbour front). Please don't just read them - share your bird news with others too. Thanks.
Logs - Lesvos Birding logs are in the Hotel Pasiphae and the taverna Dionysos (Skala Kallonis harbour front). Please don't just read them - share your bird news with others too. Thanks.
Kalloni Saltpans & Alykes Wetlands
BAILLON'S CRAKE - 1 still nr SW corner
Common Pochard - fem
Collared Pratincole - 8 briefly at c.1830h
Marsh Sandpiper - 1
Marsh Sandpiper - 1
Temminck's Stint - 1
Curlew Sandpiper - 11
Greenshank - 11
Spotted Redshank - 1
Common Redshank - 2
Ruff - 800
Little Stint - 55
Glossy Ibis - 7
Great White Egret - 3
Garganey - 5
Ruddy Shelduck - 32
Between Parakila & Apothika
Roller - 1
Skala Eresou
Thrush Nightingale - 1
Kalami Marsh
Great Bittern - 1 in NE corner of marsh from old road bridge
Tsiknias River
Citrine Wagtail - 1
Black-headed Bunting - 1
Marsh Sandpiper - 2
Temminck's Stint -
Skala Kallonis Pool
Little Crake - 2
Squacco Heron - 6
Red-backed Shrike - 1 opp Hotel Pasiphae
Meladia Valley
Red-throated Pipit - 1
Btwn Efthalou & Skala Sikaminias
Ortolan Bunting - 4
Ipsilou
Collared Flycatcher - 6
Wood Warbler - 4
Ortolan Bunting - 2
Plus usual Cinereous & Cretzschmar's Buntings, Isabelline & Northern Wheatears, etc
Kantria
Black Stork - 1
Sigri & Faneromeni
Purple Heron - 1
Ruddy Shelduck - 2
Golden Oriole - 1
Lesser Kestrel - 10
Alpine Swift - 20
Woodchat - 8
Peregrine - 1
Masked Shrike - 1
Orphean Warbler - 3
Icterine Warbler - 2 in almond grove in upper fields
Petrified Forest
Isabelline Wheatear - 2
Lesser Kestrel - 3
Soumouria Scops Copse
Scops Owl - 1 (in euclyptus with lilac sprig attached)
Papania
Scops Owl - 2 in euclyptus by playground
Kavaki
Ruppell's Warbler, Sardinian Warbler, Blue Rock-thrush, etc
Aghias Ioannis
Black Kite - 1
Very good today for usual species here inc Cineresou Bunting and Rock Sparrow
Sideras (nr Agra)
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler - 1 singing
Wood Warbler - 1
Red-throated Pipit - 2
Peregrine - 1
Blue Rock-thrush - 5
Cinereous Bunting - 3
Agra
Tawny Pipit - 1
Cinereous Bunting - 2
Mesotopos (just east of town where bridge crosses tree lined river)
Collared Flycatcher - 2
Plus Pied & Spotted Flys, Rock Nuthatch (nest), Red-rumped Swallow
Vigla (nr Ipsilou)
Isabelline Wheatear - 5
Makara
Alpine Swift - 170+ in single flock
Lesser Kestrel - 4
Great for usual open country birds on drive down to beach - only thing missing today was Chukar!
Anaxos
Yelkouan Shearwater - hundreds going past pre-7am
Vergias (Chalandra) River, Skala Eresou
No sign of yesterday's Pygmy Cormorant
No news from Dipi Larisos re. Pygmy Cormorant there.
