Collared Pratincole (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
Lesser Grey Shrike 2
METOCHI LAKE
Purple Heron 2
Little Bittern 1
Squacco Heron 3
Little Crake 1+
Alpine Swift 2
Peregrine Falcon 1
ENNIA KAMARES (CHRISTOU) RIVER
Stone Curlew 2
Ruff 130
Curlew Sandpiper 7
Little Stint 40
Bar-tailed Godwit 1
Lesser Kestrel 2
AGIA TRIADA
Scops Owl 1
TSIKNIAS RIVER
Purple Heron 1
Little Bittern 1
Cattle Egret 1
Temminck’s Stint 2
Long-legged Buzzard 1
Spotted Crake 1
Lesser Grey Shrike 1
TSIKNIAS TO KALLONI PANS TRACK
field behind Mullberry tree
Collared Pratincole 1
Montagu’s Harrier 1
Red-throated Pipit 1
Roller 1
KALLONI SALT PANS
pans
Turnstone 8
Spotted Redshank 1
White-winged Tern 5
Gull-billed Turn 5
canal
Spur-winged Plover 2
White-winged Tern 1
Whiskered Tern 1
W fields
Montagu’s Harrier 2
SE fields
Lesser Kestrel 2, m&f
Lesser Grey Shrike 3
SW fields
Rufous Bush Robin 1
Tawny Pipit 1
KALAMI MARSH (west end of Messa wetland)
Pygmy Cormorant 2
Purple Heron 1
Red-footed Falcon 1
Citrine Wagtail 1, f
SKALA VASILIKON
Red-footed Falcon 1
WESTERN LESVOS
APOTHIKA CONJUNCTION POOL
Great Spotted Cuckoo 1
ERESSOS TO SIGRI TRACK
Long-legged Buzzard 2
river ford
Common Cuckoo 1
Roller 2
Golden Oriole 4
beach area
Tawny Pipit 1
Short-toed Lark 1
chapel
Icterine Warbler 1
Willow Warbler 1
Pied Flycatcher 1, f
Spotted Flycatcher 3
old cheese factory/sanatorium
Lesser Kestrel 4
Levant Sparrowhawk 1
Roller 1
FANEROMENI
upper ford
Night Heron 1
Levant Sparrowhawk 2, m&f
Citrine Wagtail 1, f
Thrush Nightingale 1
Roller 2
rest
Collared Flycatcher 2+, f
Pied Flycatcher 2+, f
Golden Oriole 8
Many Red-backed and Woodchat Shrikes, 12+ Black-headed Bunting 12+
beach
Yelkouan Shearwater 1600+
IPSILOU MONASTERY
Collared Flycatcher 1, m
Pied Flycatcher 2+, f
Sombre Tit 1
VOULGARIS RIVER BRIDGE
Little Crake 1
FILIA (MAST) TACK
Goshawk 1
Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler 3, singing m
NORTHERN LESVOSKAVAKI
EFTALOU TO SKALA SYKAMNIAS TRACK
Red-footed Falcon 1, m
Eleonora’s Falcon 1
Audouin’s Gull 2
Scopoli’s Shearwater 4+
Yelkouan Shearwater
Alpine Swift 10
Crag Martin 4
Bee-eater 100+, passing
SOUTHERN LESVOS
VATERA
Roller 4
AGIASSOS
Honey Buzzard 2
EASTERN LESVOS
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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 marsh, Skala Vasilikon
NORTHERN LESVOS
Eftalou to Skala Sykamia coastal road
EASTERN LESVOS
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SOUTHERN LESVOS
Vatera, Agiassos
WESTERN LESVOS
Eressos to Sigri track (Meladia), Faneromeni (Sigri), Apothika conjunction pool
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, Pat Allison, Rob Hopkinson, Irene Dalgleish, Ray Archer, Dare Houseman, John Glendinning, Gaia Bazzi, Alan Macaskill, David Hind, Alan Fossey, Phil Standfield, Ralph Todd, Bob Buckler, Alan Coleman, Ronald Jansen, Simon Hugheston- Roberts, Dave Hawkins, Mark Golley, Kath Butterworth, Dave Sheldon, Craig Shaw, John Poland.
Sources/ Links
LESVOS BIRD NEWS 
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