Montagu’s Harrier (Martin Roper)
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
Glossy Ibis 1
Little Bittern 1, m
Squacco Heron 1
Alpine Swift 2
Roller 1
in sea
Yelkouan Shearwater 30
Scopoli’s Shearwater 4+
POTAMIA HIDDEN POOL
Night Heron 1
METOCHI LAKE
Little Crake 1
Night Heron 1, ad
Little Bittern 2
Golden Oriole 1
ENNIA KAMARES (CHRISTOU) RIVER
Little Stint 60
Ruff 20
Black- winged Stilt 6
Black Tailed Godwit 1
SKALA KALLONIS MARSH
Squaco Heron 1
SKALA KALLONIS PORT
Dalmatian Pelican 1, am
TSIKNIAS MARSHES COAST
Rufous Bush Robin 1
TSIKNIAS RIVER
in river
Little Bittern 1, m
Purple Heron 1
Spotted Crake 1
Citrine Wagtail 1, f
TSIKNIAS TO KALLONI PANS TRACK
Steppe Buzzard 1
KALLONI SALT PANS
W fields
Cattle Egret 1
Pallid Harrier 1, juv-m, pm
Montagu’s Harrier 3, 1m
S canal
Spur-winged Plover 2
Temminck’s Stint 2
Red-throated Pipit 10
SE fields
Roller 1
Lesser Grey Shrike 1
Red-footed Falcon 2, pm
SW fields
Rufous Bush Robin 1
E side (hide 1)
White-winged Tern 2
KALAMI MARSH (west end of Messa wetland)
Shoveler 1, m
Squacco Heron 1
Pygmy Cormorant 2
WESTERN LESVOS
SKALA ERESSOS RIVER
Squacco Heron 4
ERESSOS TO SIGRI TRACK
Golden Oriole 2
Lesser Grey Shrike 1
Red-backed Shrikes 5+
chapel
Collared Flycatcher 1
Pied Flycatcher 1
old cheese factory/sanatorium
FANEROMENI
upper ford
Spur-winged Plover 1
Citrine Wagtail 2, f
Rufous-tailed Robin 1
Red-breasted Flycatcher 1, f
Semi-collared Flycatcher 1, f
Roller 2
PETRIFIED FOREST PARK ROAD
Ortolan Bunting 1, drinking poool no 2
Golden Oriole 3
IPSILOU MONASTERY
Great Spotted Cuckoo 1, heard only
Wood Warbler 4
Red-breasted Flycatcher 1, f
Sombre Tit 2
… very quiet and windy
ANTISSA VILLAGE
Laughing Dove 1, singing m
NORTHERN LESVOSKAVAKI
MOLIVOS (PERASMA) RESERVOIR
Ruddy Shelduck 20
EASTERN LESVOS
HARAMIDA SHRUBLAND
Ruppell’s Warbler 1, singing m
SOUTHERN LESVOS
AGIOS FOKAS
Night Heron 2
Roller 1
Lesser Kestrel 1
Peregrine Falcon 1, m
Marsh Harrier 1
Montagu’s Harrier 1, m
10:30-15:00, raptors all flew in off sea around 11am but very slow for raptor passage as nothing since.
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 marsh
NORTHERN LESVOS
Molivos reservoir
EASTERN LESVOS
Haramida shrubland
SOUTHERN LESVOS
Agios Fokas
WESTERN LESVOS
Eressos to Sigri track (Meladia), Faneromeni (Sigri), Petrified Forest Park road, Ipsilou Monastery
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, Jet Cleeter, Ralph Dicker, Gareth Morgan, Craig Shaw, Dare Houseman, Graham Gravanghan, Ian Fallows, Graham Smith, Gareth Morgan, Mike Gould,Laurie Poseidon, John Poland, Jon Baxton, Ian Steward, Chris Orders, Mark Golley, Alan Binder, Eleni Galinou
Sources/ Links
LESVOS BIRD NEWS 
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