Great Snipe (Ron Macdonald)
Find here the HIGHLIGHTS of bird sightings and check for more common birds on the LINKS at the end of the post.
A Great Snipe (Gallinago media) popped up, and in the West, Levant Sparrowhawks (Accipiter brevipes) had a noteble passage and so had Lesser Grey and Red-backed Shrikes! Not to mention there are Rollers reported from everywhere!
CENTRAL LESVOS
POTAMIA RESERVOIR
Ruddy Shelduck 2
Common Shelduck 3
Roller 1
METOCHI LAKE
Little Crake 1+
Roller 2
ENNIA KAMARES (CHRISTOU) RIVER
Stone Curlew 2
Curlew Sandpiper 1
White-winged Tern 1
Gull-billed Tern 1
Bar-tailed Godwit 1
Honey Buzzard 1, flyover
SKALA KALLONIS MARSH (POOL)
Night Heron 1
Spotted Crake 1
Wood Sandpiper 3
TSIKNIAS RIVER
Little Bittern 1
Spotted Crake 1
Great Reed Warbler, singing m
Rufous Bush Robin 2, west end
Reed Bunting 1, m
Black Kite 1
at mouth
Turnstone 2
TSIKNIAS TO KALLONI PANS TRACK
Montagu’s Harrier 1
Marsh Harrier 1
Lesser Grey Shrike 3
field behind Mullberry tree
Collared Pratincole 2
Tawny Pipit 1
Lesser Grey Shrike 1
KALLONI SALT PANS
pans
White-winged Tern 12
Whiskered Tern 1
Great White Egret 1
canal, S
Spur-winged Plover 2
Marsh Sandpiper 1
W fields
Montagu’s Harrier 2
Merlin 1
Red-footed Falcon 2, m
SE fields
Spur-winged Plover 1
Marsh Sandpiper 2
KALAMI MARSH (west end of Messa wetland)
Pygmy Cormorant 4
White-winged Tern 4
Zitting Cisticola 2
Roller 1
ACHLADERI COASTAL POOL
Great Snipe 1, found by Ron Macdonald and seen throught the day!
ALYKOUDI MARSH
Kentish Plover 1
Temminck’s Stint 1
Little Tern 2+
WESTERN LESVOS
AGRA
Rock Thrush 1
Rock Nuthatch 11
Turtle Dove 9
Lesser Grey Shrike 1
Lesser Kestrel 1
PITHARIOU RESERVOIR
Short-toed Eagle 1
White Stork 1
ERESSOS TO SIGRI TRACK (MELADIA VALLEY)
Purple Heron 1
Montagu’s Harrier 2, m
Common Cuckoo 1
Lesser Grey Shrike 16
Red-backed Shrike 50+
Roller 6
old cheese factory/sanatorium
Black-headed Bunting 4
Short-toed Eagle 1
Lesser Grey Shrike 1
FANEROMENI
Levant Sparrowhawk 89 (40 + 30 + 5 + 6 + 8)
Red-footed Falcon 2
Pallid Harrier 1, m
Great Spotted Cuckoo 1, 1st summer!
Common Cuckoo 1
Marsh Warbler 1
Barred Warbler 1
Olive-tree Warbler 1
Lesser Grey Shrike 1+
Golden Oriole 1+
Roller 1
Spotted Redshank 1 (river mouth)
PETRIFEID FOREST PARK ROAD
Chukar 2
Golden Oriole 5
Short-toed Eagle 1
Lesser Kestrel 1
pool by road
Little Stint 1
Red-throated Pipit 1
NORTHERN LESVOSKAVAKI
MOLIVOS (PERASMA) RESERVOIR
Marsh Sandpiper 2
Great Spotted Cuckoo 2
Black Kite 1
ARGENOS WATCHPOINT
Booted Eagle 1, light phase
NAPI VALLEY
Icterine Warbler 1
Olive-tree Warbler 1
Garden Warbler 1
Common Cuckoo 1
Golden Oriole 10
Masked Shrike 5
Goshawk 1
Red-footed Falcon 1, m
SOUTHERN LESVOS
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EASTERN LESVOS
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Sites reported for the day (see links below)
CENTRAL LESVOS
Potamia reservoir, Metochi Lake, Ennia Kamares (Christou), Tsiknias river, Tsiknias to Kalloni Pans track, Kalloni Salt Pans, Kalami marsh, Skala Vasilikon
NORTHERN LESVOS
Molivos (Perasma) reservoir, Argenos watchpoint
EASTERN LESVOS
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SOUTHERN LESVOS
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WESTERN LESVOS
Agra area, Eressos to Sigri track (Meladia), Faneromeni (Sigri), Petrified Forest Park road
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, Micahel Sveikutis, Phil Hampton, Ron Macdonald, Phil Gower, John Glendinning, Gaia Bazzi, Phil Standfield, Craig Shaw, Alan Macaskill, Glen Moore, Martin Roper, Mike Ambler, Jeremy hall, Ian Stewart, Chris Orders, Petros Tiantafillis, Mirsini Kladogeni, Stefanos karafyllis, Ronald jansen, Mark Bradfield, Clamsdell, Mark Gibson, Paul Barker, Steve Pogson, Jon Buxton, Pricilla Macpherson, Helen todd, Ralph Todd, Alan Coleman, John Ginnever, Marianne Wustenhoff, Ian Vanse, Kath Butterworth, John Van Lier, Mark Gibson, Nigel Kitely.
Sources/ Links
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