10-12 April ’24

Warming up to 26 degrees (Apr 12).

KALLONI SALT PANS

(Apr 11, Derrick Robinson)

Black Stork 2

Glossy Ibis 100

Gull-billed Tern 15

Grey Heron 20,

Wood sandpipers and Little Egrets

MESSA WETLAND

(Apr 11, Derrick Robinson)

Ferruginous Duck 1

PSAROPOTAMOS (Skala Eressos river, see here)

(Apr 11 & 12)

Garganey 13 (Wolfgang Sprügel)

Squacco Heron 2 (E. Galinou)

Night Heron 1 ( Wolfgang Sprügel)

Green Sandpiper 1 (E. Galinou)

Nightingale 2 (E. Galinou)

Olivaceous Warbler 2 (E. Galinou)

Mediterranean Gull 4 (Wolfgang Sprügel)

ERESSOS TO SIGRI TRACK (via Tsichliontas-Meladia)

(Apr 12, Wolfgang Sprügel-am, E. Galinou-pm)

Pygmy Cormorant 1

Purple Heron 4

Glossy Ibis 1

Black-winged Stilt 2

Black-winged Stilt (E. Galinou)

Cinereous Bunting 4 singing males

Cretzschmar’s Bunting 15+

Isabelline Wheatear 1

Black-eared Wheatear 7

Western Rock Nuthatch 1

Only the breeders up to a few road turns before the the Old Cheese Factory (“Sanatorium”), and then a clear influx of migrants (16:00):

Redstart 1

Hoopoe 1

Yellow Wagtail 40-50 mixed with

Barn Swallow 20

Tawny Pipit 2

Greater Short-toed Lark 2

Red-backed Shrike 1, male

Red-backed Shrike (E. Galinou)
Greater Short-toed Lark (E. Galinou)

IPSILOU MONASTERY

(Apr 12, Wolfgang Sprügel)

Sombre Tit 1

Short-toed Eagle 1

MOLIVOS RESERVOIR

(Giorgis Laskaridis)

Ruddy Shelduck 12

PERAMA MARSH

(Apr 12, Panos Agiakatsikas)

Little Ringed Plover 1

Black-winged Stilt 1

HARAMIDA SHRUBLAND

(Apr 12, Valerie Karameta- Triboulot, E. Galinou)

Ruppell’s Warbler 4, singing males

Cretzschmar’s Bunting 4

Eastern Subalpine Warbler 2

Sardinian Warbler 5

Black-eared Wheatear 2

Sardinian Warbler (Valerie Karameta-Triboulot)

LOUTRA

(Apr 10, Aris Christidis)

Laughing Dove 6

Laughing Doves (Aris Christidis)

NORTHERN LESVOS

Molivos (Perasma) reservoir

Eressos to Sigri track

Steve Bird, Wolfgang Sprügel, Valerie Karameta- Triboulot, Panos Agiakatsikas, Aris Christidis, Eleni Galinou

Lesvos Bird News FB group

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Lesvos Birders FB group

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