Bird news - Sept 12, 2021

Interesting sightings from today (2021-09-12). Data from the Kalloni EIC monitoring program unless stated otherwise

KALLONI GULF AREA

Kalloni Pans- total area

(as counted from NE hilltop, am)

Flamingo 1167

Grey Heron 28, Great White Egret 6, Little White Egret 24

Pied Avocet 165-170

Kalloni Salt Pans E parts (NE hide and track)

Teal 4

Dalmatian Pelican 3 in the morning that reached 28 towards the evening!!! (Howard Vaughan)

Spoonbill 19, pm (Howard Vaughan via Lesvos Birders FB)

Black Stork 5 (Howard Vaughan via Lesvos Birders FB)

Little Stint 11

Curlew Sandpiper 1, Dunlin 1 (Howard Vaughan via Lesvos Birders FB)

Kentish Plover 2, Little Ringed Plover 3

Redshank 8, Greenshank 2

Curlew 4 (Howard Vaughan via Lesvos Birders FB)

Kalloni Salt Pans W parts (NW hide and road)

Flamingo 9, juv

Green Sandpiper 1 (Howard Vaughan via Lesvos Birders FB)

Kalloni Salt Pans to Tsiknias river fields (Lotzaria)

Long-legged Buzzard 1, Common Buzzard 2

Hoopoe 2

Yellow Wagtails (50-100) Willow Warblers, only a few Whinchats, Red-backed Shrikes 3, and a Woodchats Shrike

Tsiknias river ford 

Short-toed eagle 3, am

Little Crake 1 (Pia Lisa Dahl  Schrader)

Spur-winged Plover 1

Grey Plover 1, at the river mouth (Michael Jackson via Lesvos Bird News FB)

Greenshank 1, Common Snipe 1

Black Stork 1

Great White Egret 1, Little White Egret 2, Grey Heron 2

Kingfisher 2 (Michael Jackson via Lesvos Bird News FB)

Bee-eater 31 (Howard Vaughan via Lesvos Birders FB)

Tawny Pipit 1 (Albert van Gulijk via Observado)

Sedge Warbler 1 (Albert van Gulijk via Observado)

Cretzschmar's Bunting 1, M (Howard Vaughan via Lesvos Birders FB)

Black-headed Bunting 1 (Howard Vaughan via Lesvos Birders FB)

Skala Kallonis

(Howard Vaughan via Lesvos Birders FB)

Marsh Harrier 2, am

Night Heron 1, ad, pm

Ennia Kamares (Christou)

Stone Curlew 5 (Howard Vaughan via Lesvos Birders FB)

Metochi Lake

Booted Eagle 1, dark morph (group of French birders- Howard Vaughan via Lesvos Birders FB)

Parakila Lagoon (Limanaki)

Turpentine trees site (Howard Vaughan via Lesvos Birders FB)

Common Redstart 3

Eastern Subalpine Warbler 1 

Short-toed Eagle 1

Booted Eagle 1 (pale morph)

Common Buzzard 1

WESTERN LESVOS

Pithariou reservoir (Eressos)

Crag Martin 5 (Martyn de Vries via Observado)

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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