We stayed at the PELA hotel in Skala Kallonis, and I hired a car from Tsalis, a local on island business.
We drove around 800km,(540ish miles), the weather was, in the main, unbroken sunshine for the whole week with temperatures ranging up to 27'c and the wind from the North or North East.
In total we saw/heard 152 species plus a wagtail sub species, giving 153 in total; the highlights were.
Teal, Scopoli's Shearwater, Black-crowned Night Heron, Glossy Ibis, Montagu's Harrier, Honey Buzzard, Long-legged Buzzard, Goshawk, Eleonora's Falcon, Spotted Crake, Little Crake, Collared Pratincole, Temmincks Stint, Marsh Sandpiper, White-winged Tern, Whiskered Tern, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Scops Owl, Bee-Eater, Middle-Spotted Woodpecker, Short-toed Lark, Crag Martin, Red-rumped Swallow, Tawny Pipit, Red-throated Pipit, Blue-headed Wagtail, Black-headed Wagtail, Nightingale, Isabelline Wheatear, Black-eared Wheatear, Eastern Orphean Warbler, Ruppell's Warbler, Subalpine Warbler, Great Reed Warbler, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Collared Flycatcher, Sombre Tit, Woodchat Shrike, Masked Shrike, Golden Oriole, Spanish Sparrow, Ortolan Bunting, Cretzschmar's Bunting, Cinereous Bunting, Black-Headed Bunting.
New Lesvos birds for me were WIGEON, (the remnants of the huge numbers of wintering wildfowl after a very hard winter) and WRYNECK.
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| Wryneck |
As well as the birds we saw a lot of insects, and a host of wildflowers, when there's time they will hopefully be identified........
If anyone is interested in a late September visit to Lesvos please get in touch with me.
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| French/Italian Alps from 37000ft on the flight home |
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