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Red-throated Bee-eater

Red-throated Bee-eater
join us for a fantastic tour of The Gambia this November

Monday, May 7, 2012

LESVOS - 7 DAY TOUR - LAST DAY 5TH MAY 2012


Kalloni Salt Pans - Skala Kalloni – Mytiline Airport.

Some of the group decided to go out early on the last morning and the others took a leisurely walk around the village and the hotel grounds.





Our outing at 6:30am was to the salt pans at Kalloni where a Dalmatian Pelican had been seen the previous night coming in to roost. Sure enough there it was sitting like a giant prehistoric bird amongst the much smaller Avocets. We saw it in flight a couple of times and a bit later sitting on the dead-calm sea in Kalloni Bay. 


In the meantime we spent an looking into the flooded field behind the pans, it was full of birds. There was a good variety of waders as well as herons and egrets but no Glossy Ibis. Over the hour our highlights were: a single Garganey, Spotted Redshank, summer plumaged Curlew Sandpipers, Little Stint, a huge number of Ruff, 2 Greenshank, Avocets, Black-winged Stilts, Ruddy Shelduck, Little Ringed Plover and lots of Squacco Herons which looked fabulous in the early morning light as the orange sunlight enhanced their beautiful plummage. Flying over the pools were good numbers of Terns, Common, Little and White-winged as well as several Whiskered Terns.

We set off back to hotel for an 8am breakfast before departing for the airport at 9:30am. One last stop at Dipi Larisos along the way to the airport proved fruitless as we search for a Spur-winged Plover that had been been on a number of occasions over the last few days.

After checking-in our hold luggage we were able to sit on the beach and watch Scolopi’s Shearwaters in the distance and the last bird of note for the trip list was a Honey Buzzard that drifted over the distance hills beyond the airfield. Our flight was on time and we arrived back in London mid-afternoon, it was 9C and raining, oh........ to be back on a Greek Island in 25C again.......I am looking forward to next year’s trip already.

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