Collared Pratincoles near Kalloni Pans salt hill (Mirsini Kladogeni)
Find here the HIGHLIGHTS of bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post.
CENTRAL LESVOS
POTAMIA HIDDEN POOL
Night Heron 5
Little Bittern 1
Goshawk 1
METOCHI LAKE
Little Crake 2+
Little Bittern 1
Purple Heron 1
Golden Oriole 5
AGIA TRIADA
Scops Owl 1, middle tree lining roadside view from cafe side
ENNIA KAMARES (CHRISTOU) RIVER
Little Stint 40
Collared Pratincoles 40+, pm
TSIKNIAS RIVER
at mouth
Sandwich Tern 5
Med Gull 2
Little Gull 1
in river
Thrush Nightingale 1, singing m
Purple Heron 1
TSIKNIAS TO KALLONI PANS TRACK
field behind Mullberry tree
Collared Pratincole 50+, all day flying between there and the Kalloni Pans
Red Throated Pipit 2+and
Montague’s Harrier 1
KALLONI SALT PANS
hill NW
Short Toed Eagle 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Lesser Kestrel 3
Common Buzzard 1
pans
Spoonbill 1 (hide 3)
Damatian Pelican 1
Little Gull 3
Whiskered Tern 1
canal
Spur-winged Plover 3
Bar-tailed Godwit 1
Black-tailed Godwit 1
W fields
Cattle Egret 1, hide 3
Red-footed Falcon 7, pm
SE fields
Glossy Ibis 13
Black Stork 3
Spur-winged Plover 1
Hen Harrier 1, ringtail
Short-toed Lark 1
KALAMI MARSH (west end of Messa wetland)
Pygmy Cormorant 4
temminck
MESSA
Black Stork 3
Temminck’s Stint 2
ACHLADERI FOREST
Tree Pipit 1

WESTERN LESVOS
ERESSOS TO SIGRI TRACK
river ford
Pyrmy Cormorant 1
chapel
Wryneck 1
old cheese factory/sanatorium
Common Rock Thrush 1
Thrush Nightingale 2, singing m

FANEROMENI
upper ford
Icterine Warbler 1
upper fields
Roller 2
rest
Barred Warbler 1
Rufous Scrub Robin 1
Lesser Grey Shrike 1
PETRIFIED FOREST PARK ROAD
Tawny Pipit 1
ANTISSA VILLAGE
Laughing Dove 1, square
NORTHERN LESVOSKAVAKI
SYKAMIA harbour
Audouin’s Gull 1
MOLIVOS (PERASMA) RESERVOIR
Great Spotted Cuckoo 1
EASTERN LESVOS
HARAMIDA SHRUBLAND
Ruppell’s Warbler 2, singing m
Sites reported for the day (see links below)
CENTRAL LESVOS
Potamia Hidden Pool, Metochi Lake, Ennia Kamares (Christou), Tsiknias river, Tsiknias to Kalloni Pans track, Kalloni Salt Pans, Kalami and rest of Messa wetland, Achladeri forest
NORTHERN LESVOS
Molivos reservoir, Sykamia
EASTERN LESVOS
Haramida shrubland
WESTERN LESVOS
Eressos to Sigri track (Meladia), Faneromeni (Sigri)
Find all mentioned sites here!
People reporting
Steve Bird (Eressos based), Steve Bird, Killian Mullarney, Derrick Robinson, Raymond De Smet, Geoff Barter, Jeff Bailey, Elen Stedman, Steve Pogson, Chris Orders, Alan Fosse, John Glendinning, Des Higgins, Ian Fallows, Gareth Morgan, Mark Rafter, Andy Weir, Mark Boyd, Gavin Bieber, Linda Witton, Dare Housman, Graham Etherington, Jet Cleeter, Ralph Dicker, Stylianos Zannetos.
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