A call from Paul who lives at the other end of the village alerted me of a small passage of Black Kites.
I watched from my terrace from 3pm - 4:30pm and sure enough I counted 338 Black Kites. They came over in smaller flocks of up 70 birds at a time, they then formed 'kettles' just south of the village and rose to a very great height before drifting off towards the coast.
It was all over by 4:30pm and all I saw after that was a solitary Griffon Vulture.
Red-throated Bee-eater
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