22 April 2010 - Spur-winged Plover

Well, we made it! A Thomsonfly flight full of birders and more on the scheduled flights via Athens has livened up the place no end and with immediate birding results.

Mesa - SPUR-WINGED PLOVER 1 on seaward side of road opposite outcrop (Helen & Jeff Bailey).

Skala Kallonis Pool - Great Bittern 1 (Helen & Jeff Bailey).

Kalloni Saltpans - Collared Pratincole 1, White-winged Black Tern 4, Whiskered Tern 1, Glossy Ibis, Garganey 2, Spotted Redshank , Curlew, Sanderling 4, Red-throated Pipit 8, Short-toed Lark, Ruddy Shelduck, Black-headed Bunting.

Metochi Lake - Little Crake, Squacco Heron, Purple Heron, Little Bittern, Golden Oriole.

Haramida - Glossy Ibis 6, Squacco Heron 1, Great Reed Warbler 1, Crag Martin.

Christou/Kamares River marsh - Stone-curlew 2.

Soumouria (Kalloni Scops Copse) - Scops Owl 1.

Achladeri - Kruper's Nuthatch 2 males active, Masked Shrike.