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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mick Sway" data-source="post: 1487936" data-attributes="member: 15566">Lesvos ups and downsNice report Ian!Please keep it up.Sandra should certainly post her report, since she has her own own slant on birding and should certainly give us the benefit of her and Bob's experiences.I agree with the comments concerning  the disturbance to wildlife by ill thought out tree pruning. I had similar fears about the olive groves, since in some areas trees were being pruned last week, when clearly birds were still sitting or feeding young.This was evidenced by the fact that up to Tuesday of this week a warbler was still feeding five young at Sigri in a olive grove. On wednesday when at the East River mouth scoping out some sandwich,common and little terns,a "big lense" guy came along and wasn't happy until he'd plonked his lense right up to the edge of the sand spit and promptly put the nearest birds to flight. Last year another fellapulled is car up within six feet of the Kruppers nesting site to "photograph"the resident nuthatches, to the disgust of other birders standing a good distance away. There was also a similar experience at the rock nuthatch nesting site at the back of the inland lake last year.Whilst I confess to enjoying getting record shots myself, I  think that it is reaching the stage where Lesvos requires some pro-active habitat mangement if the island's wildlife is not to suffer.It is however possible to get some good incidental shots whilst out walking or preferably in the car.Keep up the good work with the reporting everyone.RegardsMick:t:</blockquote>

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