Baillon's Crake, nr Kalloni Saltpans (c) Steve Dudley
A Paddyfield Warbler reported today and the first Black-headed Bunting and a passage of Bee-eaters and Alpine Swifts.
Kalloni Saltpans & Alykes Wetlands
BAILLON'S CRAKE - 1
Common Pochard - fem
Merlin - 1
Marsh Sandpiper - 7
Bee-eater - 4
Red-footed Falcon - 13+
Merlin - 1
Purple Heron - 1
Mediterranean Gulls - 2
White-winged Black Tern - 1
Black-headed Bunting - 1
Fan-tailed Warbler - 1
Montagu's Harrier - 1st sum male
Quail - 2
Montagu's Harrier - 1
Temminck's Stint - 1
Glossy Ibis - 21
Curlew Sandpiper - 2
Skala Kallonis Pool
BAILLON'S CRAKE - 2 inc. calling male early morning
Night-heron - 3
Gull-billed Tern - 5
Little Crake - 4
Tsiknias River
PADDYFIELD WARBLER -reported near ford (no previous records)
Black-headed Bunting - 1
Marsh Sandpiper - 2
Little Bittern - 2
Night-heron - 2
Great Reed Warbler - 9
Medow Pipit - 1 (late record)
Glossy Ibis - 12
Meladia Valley
Semicollared Flycatcher - male (chapel near Eresos)
Ortolan Bunting - 3
Lesser Kestrel - 10
Perasma Reservoir
Common Pochard - male
Savi's Warbler - 1 singing near road junction
Bee-eater - 40+
Dipi Larisos
Pygmy Cormorant - 1
Vergias (Chalandra) River, Skala Eresou
Pygmy Cormorant - 1
Lardia Valley
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler - 1 singing
Ipsilou
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler - 2
Collared Flycatcher
Wood Warbler
Kantria
Whiskered Tern - 1
Sigri & Faneromeni
Common Snipe - 1
Bee-eater - 32
Collared Flycatcher - 6
Lesser Kestrel - 16
Short-toed Eagle
Red-backed Shrike - 1
Yelkouan Shearwater - 100
Scopoli's Shearwater - 2
Water Rail - 1
Soumouria Scops Copse
Scops Owl - 1 (in euclyptus with lilac sprig attached)
Kavaki
Yelkouan Shearwater - 800+ (also seen off Molivos and Petra)
Scopoli's Shearwater - 10+
(shearwaters in a feeding flock with Yellow-legged Gulls, plus several Striped Dolphins)
Ruppell's Warbler - up to 8 males in whole area
Sardinian Warbler
Blue Rock-thrush
Red-backed Shrike - fem
Kalloni Raptor Watchpoint
Short-toed Eagle
Long-legged Buzzard
Lesser Kestrel
Goshawk
Christou River
Purple Heron - 14 coming in at dusk
Achladeri
Kruper's Nuthatch - 3 birds showing well just north of the old nest stump
Alpine Swift - 50
Agiasos
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler - 1 singing
Common Chiffchaff - 1 singing
Mt Lepitimnos
Hobby - 2