1st half of October '21

Interesting sightings for the 1st half of October 2021. Data from the Kalloni EIC monitoring program unless stated otherwise.

KALLONI GULF AREA

Polichnitos Salt Pans

Black Stork 5 (Oct 1, Jan Wynants via Observado & Oct 14)

Black-tailed Godwit 1 (Oct 14)

Spotted Redshank 1 (Oct 4, HP Stone via ebird) 

Curlew Sandpiper 4 (Oct 4, HP Stone via ebird) 

Turnstone 1 (Oct 4, HP Stone via ebird) 

Sandwich Tern 15 (Oct 14)

Alikoudi marsh (still completely dry)

Stock Doves 5 (Oct 14)

Kalloni Salt Pans 

Wigeon 4 (Oct 9)

Dalmatian Pelican 18 (Oct 10)

Great White Pelican 1 (Oct 10)

Black Stork 2 (Oct 10)

Pied Avocets 16 (Oct 10)

Peregrine Falcon 1 (10 Oct)

Yellow Wagtail 1 (Oct 3, Jan Wynants via Observado)

Whinchat 1 (Oct 10)

Tawny Pipit 7 (Oct 2, Fanis Theofanopoulos via ebird)

Whinchat 1 (Oct 10)

Spotted Flycatcher 1 (Oct 1 & 4, Jan Wynants via Observado)

Kalloni Salt Pans to Tsiknias river fields (Lotzaria)

Hoopoe 1 (Oct 4, Fanis Theofanopoulos via ebird)

Tree Pipit 13 (Oct 9)

Yellow Wagtail 100 (Oct 1, Jan Wynants via Observado)

Willow Warbler 25 (Oct 2)

Grey Shrike 1 (Oct 2, 14)

Tsiknias river 

Common Snipe 1, Common Sandpiper 1 (Oct 9)

Green Sandpiper 1 (Oct 2, Rubina Heptulla via ebird)

Ringed Plover 1 (Oct 1, Rubina Heptulla via ebird)

Little Ringed Plover 1 (Oct 3, Fanis Theofanopoulos via ebird)

Water Rail 1 (Oct 3, Fanis Theofanopoulos via ebird)

Barn Swallow 10, Sand Martin 2 (Oct 2)

Northern Wheatear 1 (Oct 9)

Reed Warbler 1 (Oct 2, Fanis Theofanopoulos via ebird)

Marsh Harrier 1 (Oct 2 & 9)

Osprey 1 (Oct 2)

Ennia Kamares (Christou)

Barn Swallow 10 (Oct 2, Jan Wynants via Observado)

Metochi lake

Gull-billed Tern 1 (Oct 1, HP Stone via ebird)

Potamia valley and reservoir

Garganey 5 (Oct 3, Fanis Theofanopoulos via ebird)

Night Heron 1 (Oct 1, Rubina Heptulla via ebird)

NORTHERN LESVOS

Petra

Sand Martin 1 (Oct 1, Rubina Heptulla via ebird)

SOUTHERN LESVOS

Megali Limni (Agiasos)

Kruper's Nuthatch 3 (Oct 14)

Melinta (Plomari)

Alpine Swift 2 (Oct 5, HP Stone via ebird)

Spanish Sparrow 35 (Oct 5, HP Stone via ebird)

Kato Stavros

Whitethroat 1 (Oct 5, HP Stone via ebird)

EASTERN LESVOS 

Mitilini 

(Oct 1, Jelle Deyalez via Observado)

Barn Swallow 10, House Martin 10

Spotted Flycatcher 3

Loutra (Mitilini)

(Oct 1- 13)

Laughing Dove 4 (2 parents with chicks)

Chicks fledged around Oct 9 and were seen well together with parents on Oct 13)

Greater Spotted Eagle 2 (Oct 1 at 11:00 and another individual in the afternoon, Valerie Karameta Triboulot via Lesvos Bird News FB)

Complete checklists submitted online can be accessed here:

e-bird  (updated throughout the year and where we submit the Kalloni EIC records in the long term)

observado- lesvos (active during April-May and September by Dutch visitor birders)

bird-track (by British visitor birders)

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