LESVOS BIRD NEWS 2025 (2 Viewers)

Mick Sway

Well-known member

• May 5, 2025

• #61

5 May 2025
Weather calm temperatures in the mid 20c ‘s
A lot of UK birders went back Sunday along with them
reports of ratites. Here are a few from WhattsApp:

Tsiknias River
Caspian tern
Gull billed terns 4
Mediterranean gulls 5
Sandwich terns 12
Turnstone
Pygmy cormorant

Kalloni salt pans
Spur winged plover 2
White winged terns
Whispered terns
Gull billed terns

Makara
Tawny pipit 2
Little crake
Alpine swifts

Faneromeni
Roller

Metochi
Little crake 4
Pygmy cormorant

Meladia Valley
Nightjar

 

foresttwitcher

Virtually unknown member

• May 5, 2025

• #62

I'm loving the Whispered Terns.

 

Andrew Whitehouse

Professor of Listening

Supporter

• May 5, 2025

• #63

foresttwitcher said:

I'm loving the Whispered Terns.

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I hadn't heard about them.

 

Mick Sway

Well-known member

• May 6, 2025

• #64

foresttwitcher said:

I'm loving the Whispered Terns.

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Andrew Whitehouse said:

I hadn't heard about them.

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Thanks guys , just keeping you on your toes.

 

Mick Sway

Well-known member

• May 6, 2025

• #65

6th May 2025
Reports of scarce birds have really tailed off, here goes :
Skala Kalloni
Cattle egret

Christou River
Osprey

Tsiknias River Mouth
Caspian terns 2

Faneromeni
Laughing dove
Spur winged plover

Charamida Marsh
Common crane

Filia Mast
Honey buzzard

A couple of images from me today.
Golden oriole- Faneromeni
Pied flycatcher- Sigri

 

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Mick Sway

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• May 10, 2025

• #66

Some WhattApp sightings.
10 May 2025
Perasma Reservoir
Egyptian vulture

Filia
Honey buzzard

Kalloni Salt Pans
Spurwinged plover - still

Tsiknias River Mouth
Ruddy turnstone 6

Vafios
Rosy starlings 4
Lesser spotted eagle

Faneromeni
Rufous bush chat
Marsh warblers singing

Agia Maria
Levant sparrowhawk

Charamida
Booted eagle
Common crane

Faneromeni bush robin from me today.

 

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Mick Sway

Well-known member

• Tuesday at 10:22 PM

• #67

Scarce Bird sightings update :
13th May 2025 - still a cooling N.Easterly temp 15-21c
Faneromeni
Rose coloured starlings 2

Sigri
Red breasted flycatcher

Meladia Chapel
Redbreast flycatcher

Kalloni Salt Pans
Collared pratincole
Spur winged plover

Skala Kalloni
Corncrake

12th May
Light rain and cool 13c early morning, soon changed to warm 21c and dry.
Faneromeni
Rufous bush chat x2
Big passage of red backed shrikes and spotted flycatchers here.

Makara
Red footed falcon
Eleonora's falcon 4

Skala Kalloni
Cattle egret 2

Potamia Valley
Little crake

11th May
Faneromeni
Common rose finch heard

Images from me 13-05-25
Filia - Eastern bonellis warbler
Skala Kalloni Salt Pans
Rufous bush robin
Collared pratincole

 

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Mick Sway

Well-known member

• Yesterday at 6:50 AM

• #68

17 May 2025
The past few days weather has been characterised by howling South Westerly winds and occasional light rain.
Yesterday 16th May a brief stop at the Petrified Forest car park led to us getting straight back in the car, as we could hardly walk against the wind, consequently birds were also few and far between.
The gale continued overnight with us waking up to rain puddles mixed with red sand.
Very few recent reports of scarce birds except rosey starlings which we’ve only connected with , through a fly bye flock of about 20 at Sigri yesterday.
Some images from me :
Sigri. 16 th May
Hoopoe & short toed eagle
Sigri 14 May
Juvenile eastern orphan warbler
Icterine warbler
Anaxos 14 May
Eastern sub alpine warbler

 

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