16 April ’24

Find here the HIGHLIGHT bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post.

POTAMIA (HIDDEN) RESERVOIR

Green Sandpiper 6

ENNIA KAMARES (CHRISTOU)

Greenshank 6

Little Stints, Kentish Plovers

SKALA KALLONI BEACH

Sandwich Tern 9

Common Tern 2

TSIKNIAS TO KALLONI PANS TRACK

Collared Pratincole 1, flying high from Kalloni Pans to Tsiknias river mouth

KALLONI SALT PANS

Glosy Ibis 40, NW corner pan, dusk

Glossy Ibis et.al (E. Galinou)

KALAMI MARSH (MESSA)

Garganey 2

Pygmy Cormorant 3

Great Bittern 1, Purple Heron 1

Huge emergance of Dark Spreadwing (Damselfly) on Kalami pool. Too many to even guess hundreds of thousands !!!!

PSAROPOTAMOS (Skala Eressos river)

Squacco Heron 1

Purple Heron 1

Olivaceous Warbler 2

SKALA ERESSOS

Laughing Dove 2 (find here)

Hoopoe (Steve Bird)

ERESSOS TO SIGRI TRACK

in valley

Glossy Ibis 1 (quick passage)

Purple Heron 9

Night Heron 5

Common Cuckoo 1

Short-toed Lark 2

Red-throated Pipit 1

Citrine Wagtail 2, m + f

Collared Flycatcher 1, m

Long-legged Buzzard 1

Red-footed Falcon 1 (quick passage)

Peregrine Falcon 1

at chapel

Orphean Warbler 1, singing male

Firecrest 1, singing male

Night Herons -as coming out of the sea together with Purple herons! (E. Galinou)

FANEROMENI

Little Crake 1, f (upper ford)

Collared Flycatcher 10+

Red-backed Shrike 3+, f

Woodchat Shrike 4

Collared Flycatcher (Ron Macdonald)

IPSILOU MONASTERY

(very windy, pm)

Collared Flycatcher 3, males

ANTISSA VILLAGE

Laughing Dove 1, singing male (main parking space, again!)

Find all mentioned sites here!

Steve Bird, Killian Mullarney, Paul Manning, Derrick Robinson, Ivo Walsmit, Karin Langenberg, Ron Macdonald, Andrew Whitehouse, Alain Jacot, Stylianos Zannetos

Lesvos Bird News FB group

eBird

Lesvos Birders FB group

Observado (Observation)

Lesvos Birders WhatsApp group

Laughing Dove, a new site for the species in Antissa village (E. Galinou)

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