After breakfast we drove along the Tsiknias river to the salt pans and picked up Kingfisher and lots of Willow Warbler including a "northern" type bird.
The pans gave us Marsh Sandpiper, three Yellow Wagtail spp, and two Tawny Pipits, a good adult and a 1st year.
I wanted to count the flamingos today so after a lot of clicking I got to 1535, with a good proportion of immature birds, a minimum of 18 Great White Egrets, there were many more than this I'm sure. the duo od pelicans and the singleton were still present.
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| A dodgy shot of some of the 1535 Greater Flamingos |
We drove South East,picking up Sparrowhawk and nine Med Gulls to do a bit of raptor watching on a hillside over looking Vatera, in the company of some other birders we managed to get on the tail end of some migration/local birds three Elenoras Falcon, and three Kestrel, poor compared to previous years but we turned up a bit late.
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| Looking South East from Vatera |
An afternoon storm saw us back at the hotel to some great lightening, after the storm cleared a Hoopoe landed on the wires outside the hotel
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We went back to Metochi and picked up a Common Snipe, three Green Sandpipers and two Wood Sands'.
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