BIRD OF THE DAY - CITRINE WAGTAIL
Another superb day on this idyllic birding island. Sunshine all day not much of a breeze so it got very warm in the middle of the afternoon.
A BAD PICTURE OF ONE OF THE CITRINE WAGTAILS
We spent the day 'locally' visiting boith the rivers that form the east/west boudaries either side of Kalloni and we spent a lot of time at the salt pans burther to the east.
Our pre-breakfast outing started at 6:30am and took in the the Christou river and surrounding salt marsh. We found Stone Curlew and several species of wader, the Little stint was ther only new one for our list.
The rest of the morning was spent in and around the Salt Pans. We listed over 80 species and some of the highlights were: Garganey, Glossy Ibis, Great Egret, Collared Pratincole, Whiskered Tern, Red-throated Pipit, Tawny Pipit, Lesser Grey Shrike, Black headed Bunting, Short-toed Lark, Gull-billed Tern, White-winged Tern and tons of waders the best of which was Temminck's Stint. Not a bad list of goodies!!!
MALE GARGANEY
We also visited the east side of the salt pans where we found two Citrine Wagtails, great birds but very flighty and difficult to photograph.
SCOPS OWL
Another site we visited was along a track that follows the upper stretch of the Tsiknias River, along there we found Hoopoe, Woodchat Shrike, Black-eared Wheatear and several raptors drifted over which included: Short-toed Eagle (4), Long-legged Buzzard, Pergerine Falcon and Hobby.
Lastly we visited the lower Tsiknias River and near the ford we found Temminck's Stint (4), Little Bittern (2), and plenty of Wood Sandpipers, Little ringed Plovers, Black Stork, Common Nightingales, Olivaeous Warblers, Bee-eaters and a host of other species. At the river mouth we saw 5 Meditteranean Gulls. Before we finshed for the day we visited a site in the middle of Papina the next village to Kalloni, where we had great views of both Scop's Owl & Long-eared Owls.
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