KALLONI GULF AREA
Overcast with light rain.
Polichnitos Salt Pans
(Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)
Glossy Ibis 18
Grey Heron 16
Whinchat 20
Messa
Great Crested Grebe 2, off-shore (Eric Cameron- ebird)
White Stork 2 (Eric Cameron- ebird)
Northern Lapwing 1, Common Snipe 1 (Eric Cameron- ebird)
Curlew Sandpiper 1, Ruff 30, Wood Sandpiper 10 (Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)
Kalloni Pans
(Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)
Lesser Grey Shrike 1- 1st SPRING ARRIVAL
Pallid Harrier 1, ad. M
Red-footed Falcon 3
Gull-billed Tern, Little Stint
Pallid Harrier (Jonathan Burrell)
Curlew Sandpiper (Kevin Hazelgrove)
Tsiknias river lower area
Black Stork 1
Glossy Ibis 18 (Jacco Slomp- Observado)
Pied Avocet 1, Wood Sandpiper 1 (Eric Cameron- ebird)
Marsh Sandpiper 2, Greenshank 1 (Eric Cameron- ebird)
Common Tern 15 (Kevin Hazelgrove- LB FB)
Greater Short-toed Lark 2 (Eric Cameron- ebird)
Citrine Wagtail 1, M (Jacco Slomp- Observado)
Hundreds of hirundines
Skala Kallonis
(Eric Cameron- ebird)
Whiskered Tern 1, offshore, standing on a buoy - 1st SPRING ARRIVAL
Golden Oriole 1 (Jacco Slomp- Observado)
Ennia Kamares (Christou)
Common Shelduck 4, Flamingo 30, Avocet 7
Metochi Lake
Squacco Heron 1
Great Reed Warbler (Eric Cameron- ebird)
Parakila marsh
Ruddy Shelduck 2, Flamingo 4
Black-winged Stilt 8
Greenshank 2
WESTERN LESVOS
Faneromeni, Sigri
(Steve Bird & Gina bebbe Nichols- LBN FB)
Little Crake 2, Citrine Wagtail 1, F (lower ford)
Tree Pipit 20
Collared, Pied & Spotted Flycatchers (10 each)
Montagu's Harrier 1
Yelkouan & Scopoli's Shearwaters, offshore
Tsichliontas (Meladia) valley, Eresos
(Steve Bird & Gina bebbe Nichols- LBN FB)
Purple Heron 2
Golden Oriole 10
Barred Warbler 1, Savi's Warbler 1
Collared, Pied & Spotted Flycatchers (10 each)
Ortolan Bunting 2
Red-footed Falcon 1, M
Citrine Wagtail (Steve Bird)
Collared Flycatcher (Steve Bird)
NORTHERN LESVOS
Kavaki
(Eric Cameron- ebird)
Chukar 3
Common Quail 2
Sub-alpine Warbler 2
Masked Shrike 1
Pied Flycatcher 2
Molivos reservoir
(Eric Cameron- ebird)
Ruddy Shelduck 2, Garganey 1
Black-winged Stilt 3
Marsh Sandpiper 1, Common Sandpiper 1
Wood Sandpiper 3
Little Sint 3
Eastern Orphean Warbler 2, Sub-alpine Warbler 2
Woodchat Shrike 4
EASTERN LESVOS
Pamfila marsh
Cattle Egret 1
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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