Lesvos 2025 Part 5

 Our birding journey around Lesvos continues............ this is the last one honest!

So here's a nest built into the side of a rock face...

and here's the owner, a Rock Sparrow. We saw this nest last year on the Sigri-Eresos track and much to our delight it was in use again.

So a catalogue of birds seen in he last few days;

Spotted Flycatcher,

Black-headed Bunting,

Wheatear,

another Spotted Flycatcher,

Red-backed Shrike,

A cricket of somesort,

Corn Bunting,

Lacewing,

Red-rumped Swallow,

yet another Spotted Flycatcher 😅

Butterflies galore,

Spotted Flycatcher with lunch,

I'm sure that tasted nice 😏

Caterpillar nest!

Red-backed Shrike,

that Wood Warbler again, same tree as before!

Short-toed Eagle,

Juvenile Orphean Warblers,

More butterflies.

Night Heron,

Swallows having a drink.

Then after two weeks of trying, a Scops Owl at the mini soccer pitch just outside Kallonis Town.

Squacco Heron down at the Tsiknias River again,

The Terns and Gull were still hanging around at the river mouth,

with the Common Tern doing a flyby.

Back at the river, A Black Stork, Great Egret and Little Egret keeping each other company.

At the Saltpans managed to get some nice shots of a Little Stint,

Ruff

Spur Winged Lapwing

and another Little Stint, their summer plumage is magnificent.

A close up of a Black Stork,

Shelduck,

Ringed Plover,

and Reed Warbler.

Heading back to the village, I couldn't resis more Bee-eater photo opportunities

and a Black Stork flying right over us.

So that's it for another year. Hopefully we will be back again next year and we can do it all again!

 

Birding in Lesvos 2024 - Part 3

 In part 3 I'm just going to post a few of my favourites from the 2nd week.......

Black-headed Bunting in full voice..

Nightingale,

Goshawk have a bit of a problem with a Raven,

Shelduck on Tsikinias River,

Caspian Gull,

Red-throated Pipit,

more Greater Flamingo,

Pygmy Cormorant,

Laughing Dove in Loutra Village,

Collared Dove,

Spur-winged Lapwing (Plover),

Purple Heron,

European Bee-eater,

ready for it's close up!

Krüpers Nuthatch,

Long-eared Owl (Again, no apologies!),

Masked Shrike,

Female Montagues Harrier,

Black Stork,

Squacco Heron,

Lesser Grey Shrike,

Stone Curlew,

Corn Bunting,

Persian Squirrel,

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler,

Black-headed Bunting yet again,

Spotted Flycatcher,

Stonechat (with lunch),

Find the Rock Sparrow,

Spotted Redshank,

Short-toed Treecreeper,

Krüpers Nuthatch,

Butterfly!

Marsh Sandpiper,

Bar-tailed Godwit & Marsh Sandpiper

and finally setting up the bonfire in Skala Kallonis Square for the Greek Orthodox Easter Celebrations.

I did say I would do a list of all the birds we came across in the two weeks, so here it is:

Alpine Swift  ("Apus melba")

Avocet  ("Recurvirostra avosetta")

Barn Owl  ("Tyto alba")

Bar-tailed Godwit  ("Limosa lapponica")

Bee-eater  ("Merops apiaster")

Black Stork  ("Ciconia nigra")

Black Tern  ("Chlidonias niger")

Blackbird  ("Turdus merula")

Black-eared Wheatear  ("Oenanthe hispanica")

Black-headed Bunting  ("Emberiza melanocephala")

Black-tailed Godwit  ("Limosa limosa")

Black-winged Stilt  ("Himantopus himantopus")

Blue Rock Thrush  ("Monticola solitarius")

Blue Tit  ("Cyanistes caeruleus")

Buzzard  ("Buteo buteo")

Caspian Gull  ("Larus cachinnans")

Cetti's Warbler  ("Cettia cetti")

Chaffinch  ("Fringilla coelebs")

Cinereous Bunting  ("Emberiza cineracea")

Cirl Bunting  ("Emberiza cirlus")

Citrine Wagtail  ("Motacilla citreola")

Coal Tit  ("Periparus ater")

Collared Dove  ("Streptopelia decaocto")

Common Sandpiper  ("Actitis hypoleucos")

Common Tern  ("Sterna hirundo")

Coot  ("Fulica atra")

Cormorant  ("Phalacrocorax carbo")

Corn Bunting  ("Emberiza calandra")

Crag Martin  ("Ptyonoprogne rupestris")

Crested Lark  ("Galerida cristata")

Cretzschmar's Bunting  ("Emberiza caesia")

Curlew Sandpiper  ("Calidris ferruginea")

Dalmatian Pelican  ("Pelecanus crispus")

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler  ("Iduna pallida")

Fan-tailed Warbler  ("Cisticola juncidis")

Glossy Ibis  ("Plegadis falcinellus")

Golden Oriole  ("Oriolus oriolus")

Goldfinch  ("Carduelis carduelis")

Goshawk  ("Accipiter gentilis")

Great Reed Warbler  ("Acrocephalus arundinaceus")

Great Tit  ("Parus major")

Great White Egret  ("Ardea alba")

Greater Flamingo  ("Phoenicopterus roseus")

Green Sandpiper  ("Tringa ochropus")

Greenfinch  ("Chloris chloris")

Greenshank  ("Tringa nebularia")

Grey Heron  ("Ardea cinerea")

Gull-billed Tern  ("Gelochelidon nilotica")

Hen Harrier  ("Circus cyaneus")

Hooded Crow  ("Corvus cornix")

Hoopoe  ("Upupa epops")

House Martin  ("Delichon urbicum")

House Sparrow  ("Passer domesticus")

Icterine Warbler  ("Hippolais icterina")

Isabelline Wheatear  ("Oenanthe isabellina")

Jackdaw  ("Corvus monedula")

Jay  ("Garrulus glandarius")

Kentish Plover  ("Charadrius alexandrinus")

Krüper's Nuthatch  ("Sitta krueperi")

Laughing Dove  ("spilopelia senegalensis")

Lesser Grey Shrike  ("Lanius minor")

Lesser Kestrel  ("Falco naumanni")

Levant Sparrowhawk  ("Accipiter brevipes")

Linnet  ("Carduelis cannabina")

Little Bittern  ("Ixobrychus minutus")

Little Crake  ("Porzana parva")

Little Egret  ("Egretta garzetta")

Little Grebe  ("Tachybaptus ruficollis")

Little Owl  ("Athene noctua")

Little Ringed Plover  ("Charadrius dubius")

Little Stint  ("Calidris minuta")

Little Tern  ("Sternula albifrons")

Long-eared Owl  ("Asio otus")

Long-legged Buzzard  ("Buteo rufinus")

Mallard  ("Anas platyrhynchos")

Marsh Harrier  ("Circus aeruginosus")

Marsh Sandpiper  ("Tringa stagnatilis")

Masked Shrike  ("Lanius nubicus")

Middle Spotted Woodpecker  ("Dendrocopos medius")

Montagu's Harrier  ("Circus pygargus")

Moorhen  ("Gallinula chloropus")

Night-heron  ("Nycticorax nycticorax")

Nightingale  ("Luscinia megarhynchos")

Ortolan Bunting  ("Emberiza hortulana")

Pied Wheatear  ("Oenanthe pleschanka")

Purple Heron  ("Ardea purpurea")

Pygmy Cormorant  ("microcarbo pygmeus")

Raven  ("Corvus corax")

Red-backed Shrike  ("Lanius collurio")

Red-breasted Flycatcher  ("Ficedula parva")

Red-footed Falcon  ("Falco vespertinus")

Red-rumped Swallow  ("Cecropis daurica")

Red-throated Pipit  ("Anthus cervinus")

Reed Bunting  ("Emberiza schoeniclus")

Reed Warbler  ("Acrocephalus scirpaceus")

Ringed Plover  ("Charadrius hiaticula")

Robin  ("Erithacus rubecula")

Rock Dove / Feral Pigeon  ("Columba livia")

Rock Sparrow  ("Petronia petronia")

Roller  ("Coracias garrulus")

Rough-legged Buzzard  ("Buteo lagopus")

Ruddy Shelduck  ("Tadorna ferruginea")

Ruff  ("Philomachus pugnax")

Sardinian Warbler  ("Sylvia melanocephala")

Scops Owl  ("Otus scops")

Sedge Warbler  ("Acrocephalus schoenobaenus")

Serin  ("Serinus serinus")

Shelduck  ("Tadorna tadorna")

Short-toed Eagle  ("Circaetus gallicus")

Short-toed Lark  ("Calandrella brachydactyla")

Short-toed Treecreeper  ("Certhia brachydactyla")

Skylark  ("Alauda arvensis")

Spanish Sparrow  ("Passer hispaniolensis")

Spotted Crake  ("Porzana porzana")

Spotted Flycatcher  ("Muscicapa striata")

Spotted Redshank  ("Tringa erythropus")

Spur-winged Lapwing  ("Vanellus spinosus")

Squacco Heron  ("Ardeola ralloides")

Stonechat (rubicola)  ("Saxicola torquatus rubicola")

Stone-curlew  ("Burhinus oedicnemus")

Subalpine Warbler  ("Sylvia cantillans")

Swallow  ("Hirundo rustica")

Swift  ("Apus apus")

Tawny Pipit  ("Anthus campestris")

Temminck's Stint  ("Calidris temminckii")

Turtle Dove  ("Streptopelia turtur")

Western Rock Nuthatch  ("Sitta neumayer")

Wheatear  ("Oenanthe oenanthe")

Whinchat  ("Saxicola rubetra")

White Stork  ("Ciconia ciconia")

Whitethroat  ("Sylvia communis")

White-winged Black Tern  ("Chlidonias leucopterus")

Wood Sandpiper  ("Tringa glareola")

Woodchat Shrike  ("Lanius senator")

Yellow Wagtail  ("Motacilla flava")

Yellowhammer  ("Emberiza citrinella")

Yellow-legged Gull  ("Larus michahellis")