Katelios, Kefalonia (1 Viewer)

[Rob Smallwood]

Familty holiday to Kefalonia next week, based in Katelios at the south.

Not overly expectant but possibly late enough for a little bit of eastern return passage. Thee is a small stream that runs all year that should attract the od migrant.

Any recommended sites or up to date information gratefully received.

The island boasts a population of Black Woodpecker, although I've yet to come across any birder who has seen one - unles syou know differently?

 

[Reader]

Hi Rob

here is a link to my 1998 trip report. I was based in katelios for most of the fortnight and had a great time. This link should give you a good idea of the island (as long as it hasn't changed too much in the last 8 years).

http://www.birdtours.co.uk/tripreports/Greece/Kefalonia/index.htm

John

 

[Rob Smallwood]

Thanks - yours was the only report that I could find on T'Internet!

 

[Reader]

Thanks - yours was the only report that I could find on T'Internet!

Have you been to Katelios before. If not, it's a beautiful area. It is a very level area that is surround by hills. Plenty of birdlife. There is a cafe on the beach where a stream runs into the sea that can be quite productive with the waders at times. The Scops Owls can be heard everywhere.

I did the whole island and the only wet area I could find was towards Livadi which as the head of the bay. You reach it on the Argostoli to Lixouri road. The wet area is (or was when I went there) part of a quarry and is situated at the bottom of a hill. You drive past a road on your right to Zola and when the road starts to drop look for a sharpish left hand bend. You can pull of onto a track that goes to the right. This is a good vantage point to look over the area below you. Once you have exhausted what you are looking at carry on further the road and it will level out at sea level. The sea is now close by on your left. Watch out for a right hand turn that goes up to the quarry works. This was excellent for a fair variety of yellow wags and Spanish Sparrows when I was there plus a fair colony of Red footed Falcons. You can go to the quarry works (best at weekends) and look down onto areas you couldn't see from the higher vantage point you stopped at earlier.


If you click onto the link I have called Livadi marshes (a name I made up) you will see the birdlife we saw there.

John