Alpine Swift (Phil Gower)
Find here the HIGHLIGHTS of bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post.
CENTRAL LESVOS
MAKARA
Alpine Swift 20
Ortolan Bunting 1
POTAMIA HIDDEN POOL
Night Heron 5
METOCHI LAKE
Little Crake 6
Little Bittern 1, m
Squacco Heron 3
Purple Heron 1
Bittern booming
ENNIA KAMARES (CHRISTOU) RIVER
Stone Curlew 2
TSIKNIAS RIVER
Sandwich Tern 5
Common Tern 6
Little Tern 2
TSIKNIAS TO KALLONI PANS TRACK
Roller 1
Yellow Wagtails 100+, Red-throated Pipits
KALLONI SALT PANS
pans
Damatian Pelican 1
Marsh Sandpiper 2
Spotted Redshank 10
Slender-billed Gull 6
Little Gull 2
Whiskered Tern 10
Little Tern 6+
canal
Cattle Egret 1
Spur-winged Plover 2
SE fields
Curlew Sandpiper 20
Red-throated Pipit 20+
Tawny Pipit 2
Lesser Grey Shrike 1
Montague’s Harrier 1, ringtail
Hen Harrier 1, ringtail
KALAMI MARSH (west end of Messa wetland)
Pygmy Cormorant 4
Squacco Heron 2
Osprey 1
MESSA
Pallid Harrier 1, f
ALYKOUDI MARSH
Grey Plover 2
Little Stint 2
WESTERN LESVOS
SKALA ERESSOS
Laughing Dove 2
ERESSOS TO SIGRI TRACK
Lesser Kestrel 5
Golden Oriole 1
Western Rock Nuthatch 3
FANEROMENI
Wryneck 1
Eleonora’s Falcon 1
Semi-collared Flycatcher 1
IPSILOU MONASTERY
Sombre Tit 1
Rock Sparrow 1
Cinereous Bunting 3
Peregrine Falcon 1
Short-toed Eagle 1
FILIA TRACK
Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler 4+
Sombre Tit 1
NORTHERN LESVOSKAVAKI
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EASTERN LESVOS
HARAMIDA SHRUBLAND
Ruppell’s Warbler 2, singing m
Short-toed Eagle 1
Sites reported for the day (see links below)
CENTRAL LESVOS
Makara, Potamia Hidden Pool, Metochi Lake, Ennia Kamares (Christou), Tsiknias river, Tsiknias to Kalloni Pans track, Kalloni Salt Pans, Kalami and rest of Messa wetland, Alykoudi marsh
NORTHERN LESVOS
Kavaki, Molivos reservoir
EASTERN LESVOS
Haramida shrubland
WESTERN LESVOS
Filia track, Ipsilou Monastery, Skala Eressos, Eressos to Sigri track (Meladia)
Find all mentioned sites here!
People reporting
Steve Bird (Eressos based), Steve Bird, Killian Mullarney, Derrick Robinson, Neil Cowlay, Mark Bradberry, Steve Pogson, David Diskin, Chris Orders, Gareth Morgan, Bob Buckler, Graham Gavaghan, Gavin Bieber, Dave Hawkins, Mike Crew, Simon Dennis, Martin Smith, James Smith, Ian McLean, des Higgins, Alan Fossey, John Glendinning, Bill Asteriades, Raymond De Smet, Geoff Barter, Jeff Bailey, Elen Stedman, Eleni Galinou
Sources/ Links
eBird (50+ checklists)
Observado (Observation) (no observations from today…)
LESVOS BIRD NEWS 
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