Here are the highlight bird sightings for April 21, 2023:
Polichnitos Salt Pans
(Simon Mitchell)
Montagu's Harrier 1
Red-footed Falcon 2, male & female
Bee-eater 23
Alikoudi marsh
(Steve Pogson)
Little Stint 2
Great Spotted Cuckoo 3
Black Kite 1
Messa
Little Crake 1, Squacco Heron 1, at Kalami marsh (Jason Coopock)
Little Stint 6 (Graham Gavaghan)
Greater Short-toed Lark 3, Red-throated Pipit 6 (Graham Gavaghan)
Wood Sandpipers (Eleni Galinou)
Kalloni Salt Pans
Glossy Ibis 18, flyovers at dusk (Eleni Galinou)
Spur-winged Plover 1 at SW corner (Jim Derrick Robinson and reported all day from several observers)
Greenshank 25, Ruff 80, Wood Sandpiper 50 (Howard Vaughan)
Curlew Sandpiper 5, Little Stint 20 (Howard Vaughan)
Bar-tailed Godwit 1, Black-tailed Godwit 1 (Howard Vaughan)
Collared Pratincole 1 (John Glendinning)
Montagu's Harrier 1, male, early am (Neil Cowley)- and photo on cover!
Pallid Harrier 1 (Graham Etherington)
Red-footed Falcon 1, male, am (Ron Mac Donald)
Great Spotted Cuckoo 1 (Ron Mac Donald)
Tawny Pipit 4, pm (Eleni Galinou)
Red-throated Pipit 12, pm (Howard Vaughan)
Spanish Sparrow 100+ (pm)
Glossy Ibises (Eleni Galinou)
Tsiknias river
Black-necked Grebe 1, sea at river mouth (Neil Cowley)
Glossy Ibis 14, pm (Ian Smith)
Spur-winged Plover 1, pm (Ian Smith)
Bee-eater 19 (Howard Vaughan)
Spanish Sparrow 800+, near village (Howard Vaughan)
Ennia Kamares (Christou)
Stone Curlew 2 (Mervyn Lloyd)
Spur-winged Plover 1, upriver from bridge
Metochi lake
Black Kite 1 (Howard Vaughan)
Steppe Buzzard 1, Long-legged Buzzard 1 (Howard Vaughan)
Red-footed Falcon 1, Hobby 1 (Howard Vaughan)
Apothika to Makara
Chukar 1 (Tasos Tsonis)
Agia Triada
Scops Owl 1, visible from road only (Steve Bird)
WESTERN LESVOS
Filia track
Honey Buzzard 1 (Steve Bird)
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler 1
Golden Oriole 1, Collared Flycatcher 1 (Kevin)
Antissa
Booted Eagle 1, light morph (Steve Bird)
Ipsilou Monastery
Golden Oriole 1 (Tasos Tsonis)
Faneromeni, Sigri
Roller 1 (Steve Bird)
Golden Oriole 3 (Terry Tossell)
Sigri to Eressos track (via Meladia Valley)
Roller 1 (Ellen Walsh)
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler (Ron Mac Donald)
Complete checklists submitted online can be accessed here:
e-bird (updated throughout the year and where we submit the Kalloni EIC records in the long term)
observado- lesvos (active during April-May and September by Dutch visitor birders)
bird-track (by British visitor birders)
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Roller (Steve Bird)
