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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Peewit" data-source="post: 1495535" data-attributes="member: 57492">Hi RichardBefore I go any further, Richard, I have read your thread about your trip. It is very interesting what you have said about your trip, and what you have mentioned in your 2008 holiday report.<a href="http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=120205" target="_blank">http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=120205</a>Wow, you have been 5 times, you must love it and there is a lot to love about Menorca.The species you have mentioned are very similar to the ones which we spotted on the our May 2009 trip.Seeing a Great Grey Shrike -  I am envious of you.  We where lucky to see Woodchat Shrikes on 3 occasions in different places. One sighting was close to our chalet on the beach area.  There was a male and female sitting along beside each other on a wire fence.  You could distinguish the differences between the male and the female bird very easily (I wish we had our camera at the time but it was bad luck we had not) :-CBlack Kites is another one we would have loved to have seen.  We did see Red Kites as confirmed by our Ornithologist guide.The Ravens where amazing, as well as there size, their call was undescribable.  What a deep throated, vibrating 'Caw' they could muster.  One bird you cannot forget.The Audouins Gulls, we where lucky to see 2 times and each time the bird was sitting on a rock, and was all it was doing.  This gull is one of the most attractive I have ever seen and is very rare on the island.The Yellow Legged Gulls are becoming notorious for stealing food, and searching amongst human garbage so it is getting quite unpopular with the local people.One of my sailing group said that a Yellow Legged Gull stole her ham joint from her plate on the balconey.  Cheeky monkey. :eek!::eek!:As for the BoP's they are in adundance form where we stayed.  We where told that there was a local Osprey, which we never saw at all. Then there where the Booted Eagles, Red Kites,  and Egytian Vultures around to see.  Not to mention the Kestrels we saw more than once.  We where lucky to see a pair sitting on a utility line at one stage.May is fine weather wise, and it is still not too hot, the land lucious and green.  When June, July and August arrives the heat becomes unbearable and everything green crisps to a dowdy brown.  So not so good if you are not a sun seeker.Thank you for pointing out your trip here, and it is interesting to compare notes about species. :t::t::t:RegardsKathyx</blockquote>

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