12th April 2013 Cape Greco & Paralimni Lake ENE2 Clear

Awoke to another fine morning with a light easterly breeze that produced a good fall of migrants at the cape with both Hoopoe and Roller being seen arriving in off the sea during the morning. We then tried the pines and stubble field. We then drove to Paralimni Lake that was virtually dry although we found the Sotira Crake Pool that was playing host to 3 Spotted Crakes. We then returned to the cape for the evening.

Night Heron 1
Little Egret 100
Purple Heron 1
Pallid Harrier 6
Kestrel 15
Hobby 1
Peregrine 1
Chukar 10
Water Rail h
Spotted Crake 3
Moorhen 3
Spur-winged Plover 2
Little Stint 50
Ruff 40
Green Sandpiper 2
Wood Sandpiper 6
Audouin's Gull 2
Yellow-legged Gull 2
Collared Dove 1
Turtle Dove 2
Swift 3
Bee-eater h
Roller 3
Hoopoe 6
Wryneck 1
Crested Lark 50
Swallow 200
House Martin 10
Tawny Pipit 4
Tree Pipit 1
Black-headed Wagtail 1
Flava ssp. 1
White Wagtail 1
Nightingale 1
Redstart 1
Isabelline Wheatear 2
Wheatear 15
Cyprus Pied Wheatear 2
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear 20
Cetti's Warbler 1
Fan-tailed Warbler 2
Spectacled Warbler 30
Ruppell's Warbler 2
Eastern Orphean Warbler 1 female
Lesser Whitethroat 4
Whitethroat 2
Blackcap 4
Wood Warbler 1
Collared Flycatcher 3
Pied Flycatcher 1
Jackdaw 4
Hooded Crow 4
House Sparrow 30
Spanish Sparrow 120
Greenfinch 4
Goldfinch 5
Ortolan Bunting 1
Cretzschmar's Bunting 1

Cape Greco Lighthouse



 

Female Eastern Black-eared Wheatear

After none the day before a good fall of Black-eared Wheatears was immediately evident...

 

Male dark-throated Eastern Black-eared Wheatear at Cape Greco

...that was mainly comprised of dark-throated males...

 

 

Male pale-throated Eastern Black-eared Wheatear at Cape Greco

...but also one fine pale-throated male

 

 

 

Female Eastern Orphean Warbler at Cape Greco (JFC)

A surprising omission from the Collins Guide this Barred-sized Lesser Whitethroat proved distinctive enough and proved the only one we saw



Tawny Pipit at Cape Greco

JFC soon located a pair of Tawny Pipits that whilst wary showed well

 

 

 

 

Pallid Harrier at Cape Greco

 

 

Hoopoes at Cape Greco

two of the six seen that included one seen flying in off the sea

 

Male Ortolan Bunting at Cape Greco

 

Wood Warbler in the pines at Cape Greco

 

Wood Sandpiper at Paralimni Lake

 

 

Adult Spotted Crake at Paralimni Lake

 

Cattle Egrets, Little Egrets and a Night Heron passing Cape Greco

an impressive flock of migrant Herons

 

Adult Night Heron over Cape Greco

 

 

 

Adult Isabelline Wheatear at Cape Greco

 

 

 Female Cretzchmar's Bunting at Cape Greco

 

 

 

Roller at Cape Greco

After one was seen flying ashore in the morning two more were found in the evening