Demanding gang ........so much to show them so many great places to go and impressive birds and other wildlife to experience.
Some of us started with a pre-breakfast bird watch at the Kalloni Salt Pans with DUNLIN, CURLEW SANDPIPER, WHISKERED TERN, being the highlights.
Over breakfast of ham, cheese, homemade baked beans, bread and boiled eggs, out of the corner of my eye I saw a dark long tailed bird land in the poplar trees outside the patio, immediately I could see it was one of the most prized birds to find on the island a GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOO; I shouted a bit squeakily at the other guests who didn't pay any attention then I shouted louder and ran to find the rest of the group and the hotel owner, to say everyone was delighted with seeing this great bird would be an understatement.
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| GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOO |
Post breakfast we all set off towards Polchinotos, another set of salt pans, along the way another stop at KSP, gave us MONTAGUS HARRIER (♂), GREY PLOVER (8), and TURNSTONE.
We then drove the beach towards "Poli'" which was a bit quiet but a stunning drive nonetheless. With a BLACK HEADED WAGTAIL at ALikoudi PoolWe did however find LITTLE RINGED PLOVER, plus pair of KENTISH PLOVER complete with a nest of three eggs which we carefully negotiated over.
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| LITTLE-RINGED PLOVER |
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| KENTISH PLOVER NEST, (taken at distance and with extreme care) |
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| BLACK HEADED WAGTAIL |
After a quick on the hoof ice cream we stopped to look for Roller but came away with SERIN.
Another busy day.....................
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