Black-headed Bunting (Andrew Whitehouse)
Find here the HIGHLIGHT bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post.
CENTRAL LESVOS
METOCHI LAKE
Squacco Heron 2
Black Stork 1
Little Crake 3, 1m
Common Snipe 1
Turtle Dove 2
Crag Martin 4
Great Reed Warbler 1
Collared Flycatcher 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
European bee-eater 1
ENNIA KAMARES (CHRISTOU) RIVER
Caspian Tern 2, am
Common Tern 2
Kentish Plover 2
Little Stint 12
Stone Curlew 2
TSIKNIAS RIVER
Purple Heron 3
Mediterranian Gull 3
Caspian Tern 4, pm
Sandwich Tern 4
Gull-billed Tern 1
Bee-eater 1
Black-headed Bunting 1
TSIKNIAS TO KALLONI PANS TRACK
Stone Curlew 2
Spur-winged Plover 1
Gull-billed Tern 2
KALLONI SALT PANS
pans
Little Gull 5
SW fields
Ruddy Shelduck 35
Black Stork 13
Glossy Ibis 40
Common Quail 1
SE fields
Short-toed Lark 30
Red-throated Pipit 7
Merlin 1
Montague’s Harrier 1
KALAMI MARSH (west end of Messa wetland)
Pygmy cormorant 2
Purple Heron 2
Squacco heron 1
Steppe buzzard 1
Zitting Cisticola 1
ACHLADERI COASTAL POOL (AGIA FOTIA)
Spotted Redshank 2
Garganey 4
WESTERN LESVOS
SKALA ERESSOS
Black-headed Bunting 1
ERESSOS TO SIGRI TRACK
Whinchat 4 (3 together)
Spotted Flycatcher 1
Woodchat Shrike 5
in valley
Glossy Ibis 1
White Stork 1
Purple Heron 2
Common Cuckoo 4
Bee-eater 10
Roller 1
Alpine Swift 4+
Olive-tree Warbler 1, m singing
Rufous Bush Robin 1
Collared Flycatcher 1, m
Sombre Tit 2
Golden Oriole 1
Black-headed Bunting 1
Orolan Bunting 1
Long-legged Buzzard 1
at chapel
Laughing Dove 1
Orphean Warbler 1, singing male
Firecrest 1, singing male
IPSILOU MONASTERY
Honey Buzzard 3
Short-toed Eagle 1
Montague’s Harrier 1
Eurasian Goshawk 1
FILIA TRACK turn here
Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler 1
Eastern Subalpine Warbler 4
NORTHERN LESVOSKAVAKI
KAVAKI
Alpine Swift 3
EASTERN LESVOS
HARAMIDA SHRUBLAND
Chukar 2
Ruppell’s Warbler 2, singing m
Sardeinian Warbler 5, singing m
Sites reported for the day (see links below)
CENTRAL LESVOS
Metochi Lake, Ennia Kamares (Christou), Tsiknias river, Tsiknias to kalloni Pans track, Kalloni Salt Pans, Kalami and rest of Messa wetland, Achladeri coastal pool (Agia Fotia)
NORTHERN LESVOS
Kavaki, Molivos reservoir
EASTERN LESVOS
Haramida shrubland
WESTERN LESVOS
Filia track, Ipsilou Monastery, Psaropotamos river (Skala Eressos), Skala Eressos, Eressos to Sigri track (Meladia)
Find all mentioned sites here!
People reporting
Steve Bird (Eressos based), Steve bird, Killian Mullarney, Derrick Robinson, Andrew Whitehouse, Ivo Walsmit, Karin Langenberg, Aron White, Wolfgang Sprügel, Alain Jacot, David Diskin, Neil Cowlay, Mark Bradberry, Raymond De Smet, Geoff Barter, Jeff Bailey, Elen Stedman, Eleni Galinou
Sources/ Links
eBird (44 chechlists)
Observado (Observation) (observations from 2 sites)
LESVOS BIRD NEWS 
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