Montagu’s Harrier (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
POTAMIA HIDDEN POOL
Eurasian Bittern 1
Night Heron 2
Little Bittern 1
METOCHI LAKE
Purple Heron 2
Squacco Heron 4
Night Heron 2
Little Bittern 1, f
Little Crake 2+, f
TSIKNIAS RIVER
Rufous Bush Robin 1
TSIKNIAS TO KALLONI PANS TRACK
Montague’s Harrier 2
Marsh Harrier 4
Hen Harrier 1
Lesser Grey Shrike 1
field behind Mullberry tree
Red-throated Pipit 1+
KALLONI SALT PANS
pans
Dalmatian Pelican 1
Grey Plover 7
Stone Curlew 2
White-winged Black Tern 2
Little Terns, Common Terns, pied Avocets, Black-winged Stilts, Flamingos
canal
Bar-tailed Godwit 1
Spur-winged Plover 2
SE fields
Marsh Sandpiper 2
Temminck’s Stint 2
Gull-billed Tern 2
KALAMI MARSH (west end of Messa wetland)
Pygmy Cormorant 2
PORT BY AGIOS PAVLOS
Black Tern 1
MIKRI LIMNI FOREST
Kruper’s Nuthatch 3, by “parking” area
WESTERN LESVOS
ERESSOS TO SIGRI TRACK
Bee-eater 50+
Alpine Swift 50+
Crag Martin 2
Wood Warbler 1
Eastern Orphean Warbler 5
Rock Nuthatch 7
Lesser Grey Shrike 1
Red-backed Shrike 14+
Woodchat Shrike 3
Masked Shrike 1
Western Rock Nuthatch 10
Black-headed Bunting 10
Cinereous Bunting 3
Red-footed Falcon 2
Long-legged Buzzard 1
Short-toed Eagle 1
Eleonora’s Falcon 2
river ford
Purple Heron 2
chapel
Wood Warbler 2
Collared Flycatcher 1, f
Pied Flycatcher 2, f
old cheese factory/sanatorium
Lesser Kestrel 8+
FANEROMENI
upper ford
Collared Flycatcher 1, f
lower ford
Collared Flycatcher 1
Roller 1
rest
Redstart 1
Whinchat 4
Wood Warbler 1
Great Reed Warbler 1
Rufous Bush Robin 1
Lesser Grey Shrike 2
Collared Flycatcher 3
Golden Oriole 3
PETRIFIED FOREST PARK ROAD
Great Spotted Cuckoo 3
Golden Oriole 6
IPSILOU MONASTERY
Wood Warbler 6
Blackcap 4
Rock Sparrow 1
Ortolan Bunting 1
Cinereous Bunting 2
ANTISSA VILLAGE
Laughing Dove 2
NORTHERN LESVOSKAVAKI
KAVAKI
Blue Rock Thrush 1
EASTERN LESVOS
HARAMIDA SHRUBLAND
Ruppell’s Warbler 2, singing m
Eastern Orphean Warbler 1, singing m
Short-toed Eagle 3
Sites reported for the day (see links below)
CENTRAL LESVOS
Potamia Hidden Pool, Metochi Lake, Tsiknias river, Tsiknias to Kalloni Pans track, Kalloni Salt Pans, Kalami and rest of Messa wetland, Mikri Limni forest
NORTHERN LESVOS
Kavaki, Molivos reservoir
EASTERN LESVOS
Haramida shrubland
WESTERN LESVOS
Eressos to Sigri track (Meladia), Faneromeni (Sigri), Ipsilou Monastery, Antissa village
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 Smith, Graham Etherington, Jet Cleeter, Ralph Dicker, Valerie Karameta- Triboulot, Stylianos Zannetos, Eleni Galinou.
Sources/ Links
LESVOS BIRD NEWS 
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