Overcast weather with slight rain (full of African dust!).
KALLONI GULF AREA
Messa wetland
Spur-winged Plover 1 (Valerie Karameta-Triboulot, 14:00)- perhaps the same ind. as the one spotted at the Kalloni Pans
Ruddy and Common Shelducks
Kalloni Pans south parts
Spur-winged Plover 1 (Kevin Hazelgrove- from camera backside!, 10:00 am)- 1st SPRING ARRIVAL
Ruddy and Common Shelducks
Tsiknias river lower parts
Garganey 5 (Kostas Polypathellis- Kalloni EIC)
Cattle Egret 1 -among the sheep at west side road (Kostas Polypathellis- Kalloni EIC)
Great Reed Warbler 1 (Jacco Slomp- Observado)- 1st SPRING ARRIVAL
Kalloni Gulf sea area
Yelkouan Shearwaters c1000 ["a HUGE flock of Yelkouan Shearwaters" (Catherine Mulholland), Kevin Hazelgrove]
Red-breasted Merganser 4 (Jacco Slomp- Observado)
Spur-winged Plover (Valerie Karameta-Triboulot)
Black-winged Stilt (Valerie Karameta-Triboulot)
Ruff (Valerie Karameta-Triboulot)
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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