Temperatures have increased this week (26 degrees at 7:00 to 33 by 10:00, on Sunday 24/07 morning!). A visit to the wetlands from the Kalloni Salt Pans to Metochi lake was made.
Here are the highlight bird sightings:
Kalloni Pans west side
Dalmatian Pelican 7
Black Stork 1, Spoonbill 7
Curlew 2
Pied Avocets 65+, Black-winged Stilts 10
Kentish Plover 18, Little Ringed Plover 1
Redshank 13, Greenshank 2
Little Stint 71, Dunlin 1
White-winged Tern 1
Common Tern 20, Little Tern 10
Slender-billed Gull 7
Zitting Cisticola 2
Flamingos, Grey Herons, Black-headed Gulls, Great White Egret, Little White Egrets, Northern Cormorants, Pied Avocets
Kalloni Pans west and south side
Pied Avocet 30
Slender-billed Gull 1
Bee-eater 2
Short-toed Eagle 1
Northern Wheatear 3 (juv)
Subalpine Warbler 1
Flamingos, Goldfinches, House Sparrows, Crested Larks
Dalmatian Pelican
Yellow Wagtail in the Kalloni Pans to Tsiknias fields
Tsiknias to Kalloni Pans track
Bee-eater 2
Yellow Wagtail 5
Corn Bunting 50+
House and Spanish Sparrows 150+
Woodchat Shrike 1, Masked Shrike 1
Barn Swallows, Goldfinches, Greenfinches
Tsiknias river
Great White Egret 1
Barn Swallows 20+
Cetti's Warbler 1
Metochi lake
Mallard 12, Coot 4
Black Stork 10
Little White Egret 27, Grey Heron 5
Black-winged Stilt 2
Greenshank 2
Green Sandpiper 1, Common Sandpiper 1
Black-winged Stilt
Kerami (Potamia) reservoir and nearby olive groves
Little Grebe 12, Coot 4
Hoopoe 1
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
Crag Martin 1
Black-eared Wheatear 2
Western Rock Nuthatch 2
Masked Shrike 2
Sombre Tit 1
Common Buzzard 1
Potamia hidden pool
Night Heron 1
Northern Cormorant 1
White Stork 1 (fly-over)
Coot 3, Little Grebe 5
Barn Swallow 20+
Western Rock Nuthatch by the Kerami Dam
Hoopoe foraging in the shade
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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