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Cold and windy and occasionally wet. Low of 5C plus the windchill – its cold!
Loads of passerine migrants. Collared Flycatchers still everywhere from the other days arrival, but today saw a huge influx of warblers (mainly Sylvia), Nightingales, Turtle Doves, Whinchats, Common Redstarts and other species.
A Spectacled Warbler found today is, if accepted, the first record for Lesvos!
Semi-collared flycatchers – really? See here.
Sigri Fields – SPECTACLED WARBLER male in sheltered fig grove with many other migrants (Common Whitethroats, Blackaps, Collared Flys, Nightingales); Citrine Wagtail 4 (inc. 2 males), Gull-billed Tern 1, Purple Heron 2, Squacco Heron 4, Golden Oriole 2, Common Kingfisher 1.
Skala Kallonis – SEMI-COLLARED FLYCATCHER 2 fems, Golden Oriole, Long-eared Owl (all Hotel Pasiphae garden).
Perasma Reservoir – SEMI-COLLARED FLYCATCHER male, Whiskered Tern 1, Hobby 1.
Napi Valley - SEMI-COLLARED FLYCATCHER 2 (m&f), Ortolan Bunting 1, Red-footed Falcon fem.
Konditsia Valley- SEMI-COLLARED FLYCATCHER 1, Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler 1.
Faneromeni – SPUR-WINGED PLOVER 1 (on road to beach), Yelkouan and Scolopoli’s Shearwaters offshore. Fords Citrine Wagtail 2 (m&f – upper), Little Crake 2 (lower), Little Bittern 1, Common Kingfisher 1, Green Sandpiper 1, plus many common migrants – Common Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Orphean Warbler, Common Redstart, Collared Flycatcher.
Metochi Lake – PENDULINE TIT fem, Savi’s Warbler 1, Honey-buzzard 1 (first reported), Little Crake 4.
Sigri Old Sanitorium – Barred Warbler 2 (m&f) – loads of commoner migrants.
Meladia Valley – Wryneck 1 (on track to river mouth), Wood Warbler (chapel), Purple Heron 2, Glossy Ibis 1, Montagu's Harrier 5 (2 males, 3 r/t), Marsh Harrier 2, Hen Harrier 2, Great Reed Warbler 10+.
Tsiknias River – Temminck’s Stint 2, Common Ringed Plover 1, Green Sandpiper 2, Sandwich Tern 3, Squacco Heron 5.
Christou (Kamares) River – Gull-billed Tern 3, Whiskered Tern 1, Dunlin 20, Mediterranean Gull 1.
Petrified Forest Park – Red-footed Falcon male.
Soumouria (Scops Copse) – Scops Owl 2.
Kalloni Saltpans – Glossy Ibis 200+ on flood opp saltworks entrance, Hen Harrier 1, Marsh Harrier 1.
Lotzaria – Montagu’s Harrier 4.
Polichnitos Saltpans – Whiskered Tern 1, Black-tailed Godwit 8.
Ipsilou – completely shrouded in cloud – no news.
Black Kite 1-2 Antissa - Sigi.
