Lesvos BIRD NEWS

Sunshine/ 23 – 33 °C/ NE wind, 1 B

7:25-10:15 / 66 bird species in total – 2 of them heard only

I went straight to the west side of the Kalloni Pans. The first thing I spotted on my right was the two Lesser Grey Shrikes of the photo!

And the rest of the sightings

KALLONI SALT PANS

(west & south up to the concrete bridge after the salt hill and brief visit to the east side)

16 Common Shelducks, 3 Ruddy Shelducks

19 Dalmatian Pelicans, 52 Great Cormorants

16 Spoonbills, 8 Black Storks

6 Curlews, 4 Stone Curlews

65 Pied Avocets, 6 Black-winged Stilts

6 Kentish Plovers, 1 Common Plover

5 Little Ringed Plovers

3 Wood Sandpipers,

3 Little Stints, 1 Ruff

22 Redshanks

8 Slender-billed Gulls, 38 Black-headed Gulls

1 Little Tern (only…!)

1 Willow Warbler

4 Yellow Wagtails

3 Lesser Grey Shrikes

1 Red-backed Shrike

1 Common Buzzard

LOTZARIA TRACK – Kalloni Pans to Tsiknias river

28 Bee-eaters, 1 Hoopoe

95+ Yellow Wagtails

4 Reed Warblers

3 Great Reed Warblers

1 Savi’s Warbler

1 Whinchat, 2 Willow Warblers

2 Golden Orioles

2 Lesser Grey & 3 Masked Shrikes

6 Woodchat Shrikes

160+ Corn Buntings– an impressive presence

2 Cretzschmar’s Buntings

1 Common Kestrel

Woodchat Shrike, juv, again (Lanius senator)

TSIKNIAS RIVER ford &west track

3 Coots, 2 Moorhens

3 White Storks (in fields)

1 Willow Warbler

1 Reed Warbler

1 Cretzschmar’s Bunting