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Message: <blockquote data-quote="foresttwitcher" data-source="post: 2985034" data-attributes="member: 97625">Sunday 27th AprilJust after first light I started wandering up & down the cliff-top road, & along the track up the hill behind, at Kavaki for one of my target birds. I had a brief view of a suspect after a while but in the meanwhile over & along the cliffs were Kestrel, Swift, a couple of Alpine Swift, Sand Martin, a single Crag Martin, Blue Rock Thrush & three Raven. The scrub on the slopes held (Eastern) Black Eared Wheatear, Great & Blue Tit, Linnet & (Eastern) Subalpine Warbler plus a nice singing male Black-headed Bunting. A muddy pool in the quarry type area tempted in many of the usual doves, swallows/martins, finches & lark already seen. Patience paid off eventually & after waiting some time at the upper roadside parking area around mid-morning a fine male Ruppell's Warbler popped up on to the top of a shrub a few metres from me & sang for a while.After parking at the start of the Perasma road I walked up past the reservoir to where the track began to drop back down towards the lower ground & back. Nightingale, E. Olivaceous & Cetti's Warbler sang from the scrub downstream from the dam; a Grey Heron was the only addition to the Ruddy Shelduck & Gulls on the reservoir; a Long-legged Buzzard flew along the valley; a male Northern Wheatear hopped about in the stony corner of one of the fields & both Woodchat & Red-backed Shrikes sat atop scrubby bushes as well as singing Corn Bunting.I then drove to Efthalou, parked at the end of the paved section & walked along the coastal route towards Skala Sikaminias. The usual suspects were around but also added Whinchat, a good view of an Ortolan Bunting in a tree close by, plenty of Cirl Buntings & a cracking Masked Shrike. Part way along the thunder over Mount Lepetimnos turned into an impressive electrical storm crossing the strait towards Turkey; as a second approached & it began to drizzle I thought it prudent to retrace my steps.The weather having improved, a bit of sea-watching from where I had parked the car produced quite a number of small flocks of Yelkouan Shearwater heading east.Back to base at the end of a great first full day.</blockquote>

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