16th April 2013 Cape Greco S5

We awoke to a S5 wind after overnight thunderstorms. It was very windy at the Cape but more sheltered around the Picnic Area where we found a male Sardinian Warbler and an Olive-tree Warbler. We then tried the pines and the ploughed field before returning to a quiet Cape and Picnic Area.

Purple Heron 10
Common Buzzard 1
Kestrel 4
Peregrine 1
Chukar 12
Audouin's Gull 3
Baltic Gull 1
Yellow-legged Gull 5
Collared Dove 3
Turtle Dove 2
Short-toed Lark 2
Crested Lark 30
Swallow 80
Red-rumped Swallow 7
House Martin 10
Tawny Pipit 2
Tree Pipit 3
Nightingale 6
Redstart 1
Whinchat 3
Wheatear 4
Cyprus Pied Wheatear 2
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear 2
Olive-tree Warbler 1 ex.
Spectacled Warbler 15
Sardinian Warbler 1 male ex.
Cyprus Warbler 3 males ex.
Whitethroat 1
Blackcap 12
Woodchat Shrike 4
Jackdaw 4
Hooded Crow 4
House Sparrow 30
Spanish Sparrow 1
Greenfinch 10
Goldfinch 10
Ortolan Bunting 9
Corn Bunting 4

 



Male Sardinian Warbler at Cape Greco



 

 

Male Cyprus Pied Wheatear at Cape Greco

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Olive-tree Warbler at Cape Greco

our best find of the trip being described as 'very rare', or 'a very scarce passage migrant, possibly overlooked' in Cyprus

 

Male Cyprus Warbler at Cape Greco

 

Red-rumped Swallow at Cape Greco

 

the small church at Cape Greco

 

View from our Konnos Bay Villa

 

 

Purple Herons over Cape Greco