A non-birdy sort of day that started with a magnificent
close Oriental Hornet encounter on the balcony. The early cloud soon burnt off
as we headed east back towards Mytilene and off down to Plomari so that Mum and
Dad could visit the Barbayanni Ouzo factory and museum with free tasters as
usual. Mum was rather taken with Ouzo Man…
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| Oriental Hornet |
Lunch on the coast near Agios Isidoros saw Bee-eaters and four
hirundine species heading out to sea towards mainland Turkey while at our feet
Swallowtails visited the Rock Samphire and the rock pools below held Marbled
Rock Crabs and skinny little Hermits in spiralled Topshells while Blennies
avoided my camera.
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| Swallowtail |
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| Common Blue |
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| Hoverfly - I think it is one of the cryptic Merodons that you see here |
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| No idea what this curious seaweed might be |
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| What a funny little Hermit with spotty eyes - each leg 'hair' is a very fine spine |
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| Topshells without Hermits |
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| Marbled Rock Crab |
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| Limonium virgatum |
The Ford Focus was probably not up to the dirt road out of
Plomari so we retraced our steps and inadvertently (still not sure how!) ended
up on the proper coast road where we found an old pump windmill Μύλος Περάματος
before re-joining the main road once again.
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| Parents in Plomari |
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| Plomari Harbour |
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| Sea Urchins |
The Evergetoulas was dry almost all the way to the usual
bridge north of Karini but at that point there were two each of Kingfisher and
Grey Wagtail along with Blue Featherleg, Broad Scarlets, Violet Dropwings and
Red-veined Darters and a selection of skittish butterflies.
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| Kingfisher |
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| Kingfisher |
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| Common Blue |
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| Small Copper |
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| female Violet Dropwing |
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| Blue Featherleg |
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| Blue Featherleg |
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| The mighty Verbascum sinuatum |
Back to the Pela and then just a short circuit of Loutzaria
pre dinner where there were very few small birds at all but two male Red-backed Shrikes were feeding in the same field.
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| Red-backed Shrike - same perch as yesterday |
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| Red-backed Shrike - cracking male |
A change of vehicle saw a post dinner trundle up to Anaxos
with a grunting Night Heron and Scops Owl from the Pela before this unscheduled
pop out.
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