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Blues skies, light southerly breeze, 23C
Faneromeni Lower Ford
BLUE-CHEEKED BEE-EATER - at 1500h
Kalloni Saltpans inc. seasonal floods opp saltworks entrance
BAILLON'S CRAKE - 1 along water channel just north of the pumping station (SW corner) off the eastern access road
Little Crake - 1
Glossy Ibis - 6
Marsh Sandpiper - 2
Curlew Sandpiper - 8
Black-tailed Godwit - 1
Common Snipe - 1
Greenshank, Little Stint, Great White Egret, Squacco Heron
Dipi Larisos
Pygmy Cormorant - still at least 1
Sanderling - 1
Metochi Lake
Penduline Tit - 1
Little Crake - 3
Little Bittern - 3
Tsiknias River
Citrine Wagtail - male at main ford at 1000h
Penduline Tit - 1 at main ford early morning
Black Stork - 1
Glossy Ibis - 14
Stone-curlew
Oystercatcher - 1 at river mouth at 1900h
Black-becked Grebe - 1 off river mouth
Greenshank - 8
Aghias Taxiarchis
Eleonora's Falcon - 1
Goshawk - 2
Ipsilou
Collared Flycatcher - 2
Masked Shrike
plus usual Cinereous Bunting, Rock Sparrow, Chukar, etc
Alpine Swift (nr Ipsilou)
Christou River
Collared Flycatcher - 1
Potamia Valley
Short-toed Eagle - 4
Long-leeged Buzzard - 5
Goshawk - 1
Little Bittern - 1
Woodchat, Hoopoe, Turtle Dove
Alykes Wetlands
Gull-billed Tern - 1
Skylark - 1
Short-toed Lark - 20
Soumouria Scops Copse
Scops Owl - 1 - enter from the Kalloni end entrance and the bird is in the third eucalyptus on the right in fork of tree c7-8m up
Achladeri
Kruper's Nuthatch very diffcult today - not calling very often making locating them very hard. Only seen 3-4 times in eight hours.
Collared Flycatcher - 1
Collared Flycatcher - 1
Short-toed Treecreeper
Long-legged Buzzard
Perasma Reservoir
Common Pochard - 1
Perasma Reservoir
Common Pochard - 1
'Petra area'
Ruppell's Warbler - 3
Ortolan Bunting - 1
Collared Flycatcher - 1
Mediterranean Gull - 3
Agios Fokas
Collared Flyccatcher - 1
Sardinian Warbler - 12+
Grey Plover - 1 at River Almyropotamos River mouth (Vatera)
Agios Fokas
Collared Flyccatcher - 1
Sardinian Warbler - 12+
Grey Plover - 1 at River Almyropotamos River mouth (Vatera)
Also reports of Semi-collared Flycatcher and Eastern Bonelli's Warbler out west today but no further details.
