Bird news - Sept 21, 2021

Interesting sightings from today (2021-09-21). 

 

KALLONI GULF AREA

Polichnitos Salt Pans

(HP Stone via eBird)

Black Stork 1, Spoonbill 1

Black-winged Stilt 1

Little Ringed Plover 2, Ringed Plover 2

Curlew Sandpiper 4, Ruff 1

Greenshank 3, Redshank 3

Slender-billed Gull 2, Sandwich Tern 30

Achladeri forest

Kruper's Nuthatch 2 (Steve Bird and Gina Beebe Nichols via Lesvos Birders FB)

Kalloni Salt Pans E parts (NE hide and track)

Ruddy Shelduck 1

Dalmatian Pelican 2, Black Stork 1, Spoonbill 9

Slender-billed Gull 5, Curlew 2

Kalloni Salt Pans S parts (pans, canal, fields, and coast)

Tawny Pipit 4, White Wagtail 7 (Ian hardy via Lesvos Birders FB, pm)

Kalloni Salt Pans to Tsiknias river fields (Lotzaria)

(Steve Bird and Gina Beebe Nichols via Lesvos Birders FB)

Common Buzzard 2

Hoopoe 2

Tree Pipit 3, Tawny Pipit 4

Woodchat Shrike 4

 Willow Warblers, Whinchats, Corn Buntings, Red-backed Shrikes

Tsiknias river ford 

Little Crake 1 (Ron Jackson via Lesvos Birders FB)

Greenshank 1, Little Ringed Plover 2

Kingfisher 1

Barn and Red-rumped Swallows and Sand Martins (30+) roosted in reeds by dusk

Ennia Kamares (Christou)

(Steve Bird and Gina Beebe Nichols via Lesvos Birders FB)

Stone Curlew 5

Black Stork 3 (flyovers)

Kentish Plover 23, Little Ringed Plover 12, Ringed Plover 1

Grey Plover 3, Curlew 2

Ruff 2, Dunlin 2, Little Stint 5

Greenshank 5, Redshank 14

Bee-eaters 25, Kingfisher 1, Tawny Pipit 1

Marsh Harrier 1 (Andre Van Gulijk via Observado)

Parakila Lagoon (Limanaki)

(Carla De Haan Dujardin via Lesvos Birders FB)

Black Kite 1, Kingfisher 1

 

NORTHERN LESVOS

Sykamnia Raptor Watchpoint

Raymond De Smet & Andy Weir via Lesvos Birders FB)

Short-toed Eagle 4

Honey Buzzard 60-70, Common Buzzard 15

Marsh Harrier 15, Sparrowhawk 10-15

Eleonora's Falcon 6, Hobby 8

Red-footed Falcon 2, Kestrel 1

Black Kite 1

Anaxos

Eleonora's Falcon 1

WESTERN LESVOS

Perivolis Monastery (Antissa)

(Liz Puzzar via Lesvos Birders FB)

Common Redstart 4, Hawfinch 1, Serin 12

Lapsarna beach (Antissa)

(Liz Puzzar via Lesvos Birders FB)

Squacco Heron 3, Kingfisher 1

Pithariou Reservoir (Eressos)

Eleonora's Falcon 6 (Albert Van Gulijk via Observado)

 

SOUTHERN LESVOS

Megali Limni (Agiassos)

Collared Flycatcher 1, juv/F (HP Stone via eBird)

 

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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