21 April 2013 - White-throated Robin (still) and more migrants arriving


Record shot of male White-throated Robin, Petrified Forest, 21 April 2013 
(Irania gutturalis) Λευκόλαιμο Αηδόνι 
© Steve Dudley


White-throated Robin still at the Petrified Forest and certainly more shrikes, flycatchers, etc. and herons today.


Petrified Forest
WHITE-THROATED ROBIN
Male again at the Petrified Forest Park at 12.30pm (very briefly) and then seen very well from 5.30pm today.

The park is closed tomorrow but the bird was viewable fro the main road this evening.

Park at the end of road by centre as normal. Walk back up the road and at c.200m look right in to park and for square concrete building with some tall, thin cyprus firs by it. The robin was feeding on the ground below these firs and bushes either side.

Wryneck 1
Eleanora's Falcon 1
Tawny Pipit 1
Chukar - several

Kalloni Saltpans & Alykes Wetlands
Slender-billed Gull 3
Pallid Harrier 2CY female
Montagu's Harrier female
Spoonbill 2
Citrine Wagtail 1
Glossy Ibis 80+
Collared Pratincole 15+
Black-tailed Godwit 13
Green Sandpiper 1
Common Ringed Plover 6
Common Snipe 1
Olivaceous Warbler 
Zitting Cisticola 

Faneromeni
Citrine Wagtail m & f - upper ford
Roller - lower ford
Night-heron 1
Collared Flycacther 4+
Pied Flycatcher 2
Sanderling 3 at inlet nr Sigri

Lardia Valley
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler 2 at first /main east end lay-by 

Metochi Lake
Night-heron 9

Tsiknias River
Pallid Swift 10
Little Crake 1
Little Bittern 1
Purple Heron 1
Night-heron 2

Skala Kallonis Pool
River Warbler between pool and Imerti Hotel
Little Bittern male 'barking' in evening
Purple Heron 9 over
Gull-billed Tern 33 over
Red-footed Falcon 5 over

Ipsilou
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler 3
Wood Warbler 2

Kavaki
Ruppell's Warbler showing very well
Audouin's Gull 1

North Coast Track
Pallid Harrier 2CY
Hen Harrier fem

Perasma Reservoir
Eleanora's Falcon 1

Christou River
Pallid Harrier 2CY

Makara
Alpine Swift 50+
Great Reed Warbler 
Short-toed Lark
Glossy Ibis 2

Mesa Wetlands
Squacco Heron 2
Purple Heron 1
Glossy Ibis 2

Papiana
Scops Owl 4+
Long-eared Owl 1 adult on nest (same site as 2012)

Soumouria 'Scops Copse'
Scops Owl - several. Please do not harass the birds!