Bird news- April 21, 2023

Here are the highlight bird sightings for April 21, 2023:

Polichnitos Salt Pans

(Simon Mitchell)

Montagu's Harrier 1

Red-footed Falcon 2, male & female

Bee-eater 23

Alikoudi marsh

(Steve Pogson)

Little Stint 2

Great Spotted Cuckoo 3

Black Kite 1

Messa

Little Crake 1, Squacco Heron 1, at Kalami marsh (Jason Coopock)

Little Stint 6 (Graham Gavaghan)

Greater Short-toed Lark 3, Red-throated Pipit 6 (Graham Gavaghan)

Kalloni Salt Pans

Glossy Ibis 18, flyovers at dusk (Eleni Galinou) 

Spur-winged Plover 1 at SW corner (Jim Derrick Robinson and reported all day from several observers)

Greenshank 25, Ruff 80, Wood Sandpiper 50 (Howard Vaughan)

Curlew Sandpiper 5, Little Stint 20 (Howard Vaughan)

Bar-tailed Godwit 1, Black-tailed Godwit 1 (Howard Vaughan)

Collared Pratincole 1 (John Glendinning)

Montagu's Harrier 1, male, early am (Neil Cowley)- and photo on cover!

Pallid Harrier 1 (Graham Etherington)

Red-footed Falcon 1, male, am (Ron Mac Donald)

Great Spotted Cuckoo 1 (Ron Mac Donald)

Tawny Pipit 4, pm (Eleni Galinou)

Red-throated Pipit 12, pm (Howard Vaughan)

Spanish Sparrow 100+ (pm)

Tsiknias river

Black-necked Grebe 1, sea at river mouth (Neil Cowley)

Glossy Ibis 14, pm (Ian Smith)

Spur-winged Plover 1, pm (Ian Smith)

Bee-eater 19 (Howard Vaughan)

Spanish Sparrow 800+, near village (Howard Vaughan)

Ennia Kamares (Christou)

Stone Curlew 2 (Mervyn Lloyd)

Spur-winged Plover 1, upriver from bridge

Metochi lake

Black Kite 1 (Howard Vaughan)

Steppe Buzzard 1, Long-legged Buzzard 1 (Howard Vaughan)

Red-footed Falcon 1, Hobby 1 (Howard Vaughan)

Apothika to Makara

Chukar 1 (Tasos Tsonis)

Agia Triada

Scops Owl 1, visible from road only (Steve Bird)

WESTERN LESVOS

Filia track

Honey Buzzard 1 (Steve Bird)

Eastern Bonelli's Warbler 1

Golden Oriole 1, Collared Flycatcher 1 (Kevin)

Antissa

Booted Eagle 1, light morph (Steve Bird)

Ipsilou Monastery

Golden Oriole 1 (Tasos Tsonis)

Faneromeni, Sigri

Roller 1 (Steve Bird)

Golden Oriole 3 (Terry Tossell)

Sigri to Eressos track (via Meladia Valley)

Roller 1 (Ellen Walsh)

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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