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Lesvos Bird News 2019/2020 (1 Viewer)

Red breasted flycatcher 09/09/20

Report from Observado, Eressos 09/09/20
Red Breasted Flycatcher.
A Dutch birder reported a Red breasted flycatcher at Eressos Wednesday, near the Da Luz Taverna.
See here for a full list of his sightings.
 
11 September 2020

A summary of Howard's sightings for :
11 September 2020
Kalloni Salt Pans
Dalmatian pelicans 29
Spoonbill 7
Cormorant
Black stork
Curlew Sandpiper were in the Channel
Slender-billed Gulls 27


Achladeri Forest

Kruper's Nuthatch
Short-toed Treecreeper
Cirl Buntings
Woodlark
Coal, Blue and Great tit
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
Sardinian Warblers
Bee-eaters

Coastal Road near to Achladeri
Tawny pipit

Lotzaria
Lesser Grey Shrik
Bee-eaters
Long-legged Buzzard

Tsiknias river Mouth
Dalmatian pelican 2
White stork
 
12 September 2020 - Barred Warbler & Pallid Harrier

12 September 2020
A summary of Howard's report

Parakilia - Turpentine trees
Spotted Flycatcher
Common Redstar
Common and Lesser Whitethroats
Chaffinche
Great and Blue Tit
Eastern Black-eared and Northern Wheatears
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
Cirl Buntings
European Bee-eaters

Parakila Harbour
Med Gull 32
Sandwich Terns 2
Woodchat shrike
Stonechats
Raven

Parakila Road to Eressos
Rock Sparrow
Blue Rock Thrush

Pithariou Reservoir

Eleonora's Falcon 5
Black Stork
Great White Egret
Grey Heron
Cormorants 80
Little Grebe
Pallid harrier
Rock Nuthatches
Barred Warbler

Note : Wild fires were reported to have ravaged the hills around Vatousa

North West Road back to Skala Kalloni
Spotted Flycatcher
Common Redstart
Wheatears
Willow Warblers
Middle spotted Woodpecker
Rock Nutchatche
Sombre and Long-tailed Tit

Lardia Valley
Black Stork 3
Short-toed Eagle
Osprey

Lotzaria
European Bee-eater
Red-backed Shrike
Lesser Grey shrike
Turtle Dove
Long-legged Buzzard
Hooded crow
Corn Bunting
Little owl

Kalloni Salt Pans
Kingfisher
Dalmatian Pelicans 17
Spoonbill
Black Stork
Caspian gull - possible
Eleonora's falcon
Red-footed Falcon juvenile t
Marsh Sandpiper 2
Dunlin
Curlew Sandpiper
Ringed Plover
Eurasian Curlew 4
 
13 september 2020

Continuing a summary of Howards reports:
13 September 2020

Metochi area
Lake holding a little water at far end
Red-backed Shrike
Crested Lark
House Sparrow
Corn Bunting
Bee-eaters
Black Stork
Little Egret 20
Grey Heron
Little Grebes
Wood and Green Sandpiper
Wheatears
Whinchat
Masked Shrikes 2 juveniles
Cirl Bunting
Spotted Fly
Hoopoe
Rock Nuthatche
Short toed eagle

Christou River
Stone Curlew

Potamia.
Reservoir - River dry
Dalmatian pelican 10
Coot
Garganey
Ferruginous Duck
little grebe

Valley
Sombre tit
Ms woodpecker
Willow warbler
Common & lesser whitethroat
Black stork

Dragonflies
Red-veined and Scarlet Dart
Small and Keeled Skimmers
Lesser and Vagrant Emperors.

Lotzaria and Salt Pans
Marsh Harrier
Common cuckoo juvenile
Dalmatian Pelicans 26
Spoonbill 18
Black Storks 8
Great White Egrets 11
Marsh Sandpipers 4
Spotted Redshanks 3

Gulf of Kalloni adjacent sheep fields
Great White egret
Flamingos
mixed gulls
Curlew 4
Mallard
Great Crested Grebe
 
14th September 2020 - Ortolan bunting Red Foot

Continuing a summary of Howard Vaughn's Lesvos visit reports:

14 September 2020

Eastern Kalloni salt pan track


Crested Larks and Corn Buntings ( flocks)
Great White egret
Grey Heron
Dalmatian Pelican 31
Cormorants
Black Storks
Spoonbill
Grey Plover 3
Black-necked Grebe
Northern Shoveler
Garganey
Shelduck
Peregrine
Black-headed and Slender-billed Gulls.

Raptor Watchpoint out of Kalloni
Alpine Swift 3

Stypsi.
Crag Martin
Short-toed Eagle
Rock Nuthatche
Cirl Bunting
Willow Warbler
Spotted Flycatchers
Red-backed Shrike

Lotzaria and the Saltpans
Bee-eaters were
Wagtails inc : Black-headed, Grey-headed and Romanian Blue-headed. Buzzard
Marsh Harrier
Red-footed Falcon adult male
Shrikes, chats and Cuckoo
Black-headed Bunting 1st winter , unusual sighting
Ortolan.
Tree Pipits 3
Whinchats
White Storks
Lesser Grey Shrike
Grey Plover along the shorelin
Wigeon 3
 
15 September 2020 Meadow Pipit

Howard Reports the following on Lesvos Birders Facebook Group

Worth pointing out that many of Howard's visits to Lotzaria and the Saltpans are morning and evening, however I combine the sightings of both.

15th September 2020
Lotzaria
Flava Wagtails several hundred on mowed fields
Marsh Harrier 2 juveniles
Common Buzzards 3
Long-legged Buzzard
Red-footed Falcon r
Black-headed bunting
Ortolan bunting 3
Meadow pipit - normally a winter visitor

Kavaki.
Sardinian Warblers
Chukar 8
Yelkouan Shearwaters 12

Perasma Reservoir almost dry
Cormorant

Molyvos castle
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
Jackdaw 35
Maarsh Harrier

Skala Sykaminias
Audouin's Gulls 2 on a rock offshore.
 
16th September 2020 - Levant Sparrowhawk

16th September 2020
Howard reports that there are extensive road works out West and near Ipsilou , with hard core tipped in many pull ins.

Dafia
Stonechats
Red-backed Shrikes
Spotted Flycatchers
Song Thrush
Rock Nuthatche

Lardia Valley
Crag Martin
Short-toed Eagle
Marsh Harrier,
Eleonora's Falcon
Levant Sparrowhawk

Ipsilou
Spotted Flycatcher
Common Redstart 6
Lesser Whitethroat
Blackcap 2
Willow Warbler 18
Golden Oriole 1st year bird
Chaffinches and Cirl Buntings
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
Rock Nuthatches
Sombre Tits
Raven
Sparrowhawk

Ancient Antissa river and surrounds
Snipe
Little Stint
Moorhen
Teal
Grey Herons
Willow Warblers
Common Whitethroat
Marsh Warbler
Red rumped and barn swallow
House Martin
Common Swift
Red-backed Shrikes
Whinchats
flava Wagtails
House Sparrows
Tree Pipits
Corn Buntings

Butterflies
Lang's Short-tailed blue
Holly, Common and Long-tailed Blues
Meadow Browns
Small Copper
Great Banded Grayling
Clouded Yellows
Small Whites

Perivolis Monastery
Spotted Flycatchers and Common Redstarts

Lotzaria.
Woodchat shrike juveniles
Tree Pipits
Goshawk

Alykes - Bay off the Sheepfield
Grey Plover 3
Curlew
Kingfisher
Tawny Pipits

Kalloni salt Pans
Dalmatian Pelicans and Spoonbills still present

Skala Kalloni
Scops Owl heard
 
17th September 2020 - local report - Red Foots

17 September 2020
As detailed on Lesvos Bird News Facebook group,
Local naturalist Stylianos Zannetos has posted two reports today on ebirder;
For Skala Kalloni click here
For Metochi area click here
Photo by kind permission of Stylianos Zannetos
 

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17th September 2020 - Steppe with Honey Buzzards

17 September 2020
Our visiting British birder reports on Lesvos Birders Facebook group
Please note that morning and late afternoon visits are incorporated.

Lotzaria
Flava Wagtails 100's
Tawny Pipits
Tree Pipits,
Wheatears
Whinchats
Spanish Sparrows
Corn Buntings
Turtle Dove 7
Collared dove
Short-toed Eagle
Common buzzard
Hooded crow
Willow Warblers
Red-backed Shrikes
Lessser Grey Shrike
Spotted Flycatchers
Bee-eat
Hirundine - mixed floxk
Peregrine
Common kestrel 2
Common Buzzards
Honey buzzard 2
Steppe buzzard


Lotzaria Alphalpha fields
Golden oriole juvenile
Common cuckoo juvenile
Ortolan bunting

Tsiknias River mouth

Great White Egret 2
Common Greenshank 3

Mesa
Spotted Flycatchers
Sombre Tits
Willow Warbler

Kalloni Salt Pans

Black winged Stilts 9
Stone Curlew 2
Redshank 6
Common greenshank 6
Marsh Sandpiper 3
Curlew Sandpipers 2
Ruff
Little Stint 12
Temminck's Stint
Kentish Plovers 3
Ringed Plover 2
Little Ringed Plover 3
Grey Plover
Dalmatian pelican flock

Kalloni Bay
Great Crested Grebe.

Skala Kalloni heard
Barn owl
Scopes owl
 
Observado Sightings by a visiting Dutch Birder.
16 September Achladeri Taverna on the Gulf
Osprey coming off the sea

17 September Near Vatoussa
Semicollared flycatcher , near the old Cyclone filling station out of Vatoussa. Needless to say that semi's are very rare at any time and would normally require more than a fleeting glimpse to ID.
 
September 18th 2020 - grey wagtail red foot

Howard Vaughan's Lesvos Birders , report summary.
for 18th September 2020
River Evergetoulas - very little water
Freshwater crab

Dragonflies
Beautiful Demoiselle
Small Skimmers
Amphibian
Balkan Marsh Froglets

Birds
Grey Wagtail 2
Kingfisher
Cirl Bunting
Chaffinches
Willow Warblers
Spotted flycatcher
Bee-eaters - high flying

Butterfly/Moth
Hummingbird Hawkmoths
Cardinal

Asomotas
Robin
Black capped Jays

Agiosos
Coal Tits
calling Wren,Kruper's Nuthatches ,Robin and Hawfinch

Agios Isidoras
Sparrowhawk 3

Dipi Larsou river mouth
Med Gulls 12
Yellow-legged Gulls 100+
Kingfisher 2
Willow Warblers numerous
Common swift 2

Lotzaria
flava Wagtails
White Wagtail
Ortolan bunting
Lesser Grey Shrike
Tree pipit
Red-footed Falcon

Kalloni salt Pans - no visible wading birds

Sheep fields channel mouth
Kingfisher
Curlew
Grey Plover
 
19 September 2020 - more red foots

A Brit birders adventures on Lesvos Birding continue :
19th September 2020
Apparently a hoolie of an Easterly warm wind blowing today

Sykaminia - refugee watchpoint bandstand
Eleonora's 2
Hobby
Kestrel 2
Peregrine 2
Red-footed Falcons 22
Marsh Harriers 2
Sparrowhawk
Common Buzzard 4
Short-toed Eagle 2
Swallows in numbers moving through
Raven 47
Hooded Crows 130 t

North Coastal track
Wren
Cirl Buntings
flava Wagtails
Tree Pipits

Petra fields
Jackdaws 120

Lotzaria
Long-legged Buzzard
Marsh Harrier juvenile
Common Buzzard
flava yellow wags
Tree Pipits

Potamia Reservoir
Dalmatian pelican juvenile
Garganey
Coot 5
Little Grebes 41
Woodchat shrike
Red-backed Shrikes 4

Potamia Old Reservoir
Ferruginous Ducks 2
Coots 3
Little Grebes
Little Egrets 5

Metochi Lake - very low water level
Black Storks 6 - fishing on eels
Little Egret 12
Little Ringed Plovers 2 juvs

Skala Kalloni
Bee-eaters 23
Red-footed Falcons 6
 
20 september 2020

20 September 2020 credit to Lesvos Birders Facebook Group

Skala Kalloni Gulf off square
Flamingo juvenile
Grey heron

Skala Kalloni surrounds

House sparrows
Flava wagtails
Pipits

Lotzaria
Hoopoe
Long-legged Buzzard
Common Buzzards 11
Short-toed Eagles 4
Marsh Harrier
Alpine Swift 2
Bee-eaters 47
Hirundine - mixed flock
Flava Wagtail
Tree Pipits
Whinchats
White stork 5T

Tsiknias River mouth
Kingfisher
Sandwich Tern 11
Yellow-legged Gulls
Great White Egret.
 
21 September 2020

21 September 2020
A Lesvos birding odyssey continues on the Lesvos Birders Facebook Group :

Parakilia Turpentine Trees /Harbour
Lesser Whitethroats t
Med Gulls 31

Pithariou Reservoir (Eressos)
Eleonora's Falcons 6
Black Stork
Ravens
Short-toed Eagles 2
Cormorants30
Great White Egret
Teal 19

Eressos, Meladia Valley to Sigri
(Meladia ford was dry)
Common Starling
Rock Nuthatche
Rock Sparrow
Willow warblers
Flava wagtails
Hobby juvenile
Eleonora's Falcons
Northern Wheatear
Stonechat
Crested Larks
whinchat
Red backed shrikes
Spotted flycatchers
Kingfisher
Rock

Lotzaria - same species , numbers down from previous

Kalloni Salt Pans - levels had dropped
Black-headed and Slender-billed Gulls were surface feeding
Black-winged Stilts 5
Redshank 9
Marsh Sandpiper,
Greenshank 2
Ruff 2
Dunlin 3
Little ringed plover 3
Little Stint 26
 
22 September 2020 another Steppe Buzzard

22nd September 2020
More Lesvos fun on Facebook
Metochi
Black stork 34 communally fishing
Grey Herons 12
Little Egrets 22
Little Grebes 2
Kingfisher

Molivos castle - FYI closed Tuesday
Rock Nuthatches
Spot Flycatchers

Kalo Limani
Rock Nuthatches
Spotted Flys
Willow Warblers

Lotzaria
flava wagtails - quieter day for Wagtails
Red-backed shrike 6
Lesser Grey shrike
Buzzard - possibly steppe - in the bale field, small and very plainly rufous.In flight matching rufous underwing coverts, a very broad black terminal bar and unmarked white inside of the primaries with a dark sub-terminal band

Kalloni salt Pans
Red-backed Shrikes
Whinchat
Pelican flock
flava Wagtails
Corn Buntings
 
23rd September 2020

23 September 2020 - HV's Lesvos Bird Blog continues
Incorporates morning and evening visits.

Day 14
Eastern Kalloni Salt Pans - at dawn
Dalmatian pelican 34
Great White Egret 36
Grey Her27ns 24
Spoonbill
Cormorants 210 a
Greater Flamingos
Black-necked Grebe
Teal 6
Mallard 8
Whimbrel
Curlew
Grey Plover 2
Shanks ? several
Kingfisher2
Little grebe

Western Kalloni Salt Pans
Kentish Plovers
Curlew Sandpiper
Little Stints 17
Marsh Sandpipers 2 a
Flocks of Goldfinch and Greenfinches on Milk Thistles
Little Owl
Redshanks
Slender-billed Gulls 25
Black-headed 132

Lotzaria
Chats, Shrikes and Tree Pipits
Wryneck
Common buzzard
Long--legged buzzard
Common Kestrel
Red-footed Falcon juvenile
Ortolan bunting
Willow warbler
Most notably no wagtails

Skala Kalloni Village butterfles
Millet and Mallow Skippers, Painted Lady, Swallowtails, Small White and three Blues, Geranium Bronzes & hummingbird Hawkmoth

Skala Kalloni Village
Raven
Short-toed Eagle
Common and Long-legged buzzard
Peregrine
Goshawk
hooded crow
Feral Pigions
 
24 September 2020 - wood pigeon

24 September 2020 more Lesvos avian elucidations from Mr Vaughan on Facebook :
Day 15 lucky spud , possibly anyway as I don't envy his return :

Lotzaria

Lesser Grey Shrike
Red-backed Shrike 6
Woodpigeon - a scarce bird on Lesvos
Flava Wagtails
Corn Buntings and flocking Sparrows

Mesa
Great White Egret 2 a

Achladeri coastal track to Poli pans
Med Gulls 13
Common Sandpipers
Red-backed Shrikes
Tawny Pipits
Whinchats
Willow Warblers

Alikoudi Pool dry , no birdswas, well, not a pool...

Polichnitos Salt Pans

Greater Flamingos 124
Black Stork 3
Marsh Sandpiper
Dunlin,
Avocets - large flock no count
Redshank
Kentish Plovers 6
Sandwich Terns 27
Eleonora's Falcon
Yellow-legged Gull
Bee-eater 1 o
Raven 4s

Vatara / Agio Fokus
Moorhen
Kingfisher
Grey and White Wagtail
Sardinian Warbler - heard

Polichnitos Hot springs

Green Sandpipe
Raven
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
Chaffinches
Cirl Bunting
Sardinian Warbler
Spotted Flycatcher

Dragonflies
Lesser Emperors
Red-veined Darters
 
25 September 2020 - Last Report

Day 16: 25th September 2020 HV's final day
Kavaki
Blue Rock Thrush
Sardinian Warblers

Kramasti
Cirl Buntings
Middle Spotted Woodpeckers
Tits and Chaffinches

Lotzaria
Lesser Grey Shrike
Red-backed 3
Northern Wheatear
Whinchat
flava Wagtails 10
Woodpigeon

Kalloni Salt Pans

Dunlin 10
Dalmatian pelican flock

Thanks to Howard Vaughan for taking the time to share his reports.
 
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