4 May 2010 - slowing down

Continuous high pressure has meant wall to wall sunshine and increasing daily temperatures. More birds have shipped out than shipped in, but there is still enough to keep us happy.

Metochi Lake - BAILLON'S CRAKE 1, River Warbler 1, Little Crake 3.

Skala Eresou – PENDULINE TIT still nesting c.100 nest north of the village end road bridge. park at bridge and walk up track along east side.

Sigri Fields / Faneromeni area – SPUR-WINGED PLOVER 1, Hawfinch 1, Collared Flycatcher 1, Collared Pratincole 1, Whiskered Tern 2, Purple Heron 1, Little Bittern 4, Squacco Heron 1, Bee-eater 4+, Alpine Swift 6, Yelkouan Shearwater 1000+, Scopoli's Shearwater 2, Ringed Plover 1.

Platania - Olive-tree Warbler 3 singing.

Meladia Valley – Rufous Bush Robin 2, Collared Flycatcher 4, Icterine Warbler 1, Golden Oriole 1, Redstart 1, Wood Warbler, Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, Little Bittern 7, Squacco Heron 1, Night-heron 2, Little Crake 1.

Sigri Old Sanatorium – Collared Flycatcher 1, Rufous Bush Robin 1, Woodchat Shrike 3, Red-backed Shrike 2.

Perivolis Monastery - Ortolan Bunting, Cinereous Bunting, Serin, Alpine Swifts 2, Golden Oriole, Middle Spotted Woodpecker.

Kalloni Raptor Watchpoint - Ortolan Bunting, Montagu's Harrier, Short-toed Eagle 2, Goshawk 2, Black Stork.

Agios Fokas – Audouin’s Gull 1, Grey Plover 2, Turnstone 12, Ringed Plover 1, dead Leatherjacket Turtle.

Parakila Marsh - Purple Heron 10.

Hotel Pasiphae garden, Skala Kallonis - Collared Flycatcher 1.

Soumouria (Scops Copse) - Scops Owl still in tree by bins.

Pandeleimonas - Eleanora's Falcon 1, Common Redshank 1.

Ipsilou - Collared Flycatcher 2.

Kalloni Saltpans (inc. flooded fields opposite saltworks entrance, etc) - Garganey 2, Turnstone 1, Curlew Sandpiper 4, Ringed Plover 5.

Vouvaris River bridge - Collared Flycatcher 1, Serin 1.

Mavria (Napi Valley - to masts at top of valley) - Olive-tree Warbler, Red-footed Falcon 3, Long-legged Buzzard 4, Orphean Warbler, Middle Spotted Woodpecker.