Well everything went well today, everyone turned up! the plane was on time, the weather was just dandy and we saw some good birds during our late afternoon walk.
The group of 8 stepped off the plane ahead of schedule at 1:45pm, it took a while for the luggage to come through but we were on the rood at 2:45pm.
Our afternoon walk began at 4:30pm after we had checked into the hotel and unpacked our optics, we had already noted several species during the journey from the airport including Blue Rock thrush, black-winged Stilt and Hooded Crow.
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| THE GROUP'S FIRST OUTING IN THE SUNSHINE |
Our first walk was near the bridge over the Christos River, we saw Crested Lark, Common Tern, Yellow-legged gull and Yellow Wagtail. On the salt marsh near the mouth of the river we added Sanderling, Wood Sandpiper and Kentish Plover to our list.
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| BLACK-HEADED BUNTING |
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| RIVER TSIKNIAS |
At the Tsiknias river we had a lovely time watching many species in excellent light, Breeding plumage Mediterranean gulls looked superb as did a small number of Squacco herons that sat out in the open. We also saw: Common Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Little Ringed Plover, Black Stork, White Stork, Little and Common Terns.
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| SQUACCO HERON |
Further up the river we found our first few Black-headed Buntings, wow what a colourful little beauty. We also saw Yellow Wagtail (male feldegg variety), Common Nightingale, Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Olivaceous Warbler and four superb Glossy Ibis. Plenty of other birds were about and with superb afternoon light we had a great first sortie on this fantastic island venue.
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