A www.blueeyedbirder.com adventure:
There is always time for last minute birding and we got ourselves packed and out before 9am having said our farewells to Thekla and the Pela.
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| Bye puppies! - Antony Wren |
A final bakery stop
for some take home Kalouri and then off to the Tsiknias river mouth where the
Bee-eaters were the best we had seen all week. Absolutely magic.
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| Bee-eater - Antony Wren |
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| Bee-eater - Antony Wren |
Our last bump
through the middle was curtailed by Helen and Geoff finding a Scops Owl at
Soumaria. I asked them nicely to stay with the bird and off we went. They have
been very tricky to see in recent springs - the Owls that is.
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| Scops Owl - Antony Wren |
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| Scops Owl - Andrew Litchfield |
It glared at us and
the quickly assembling birders and was a new bird for everyone despite hearing
several.
Watching the clock
meant a quick escape and another five minute stop at the NW corner of the
saltpans where a pallid 2cy Peregrine (thanks Killian) was keeping people
guessing.
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| Peregrine |
More farewells and
off to the airport and I joked about looking out for the Dalmatian Pelican and there it
was in the channel as we whizzed past. For a laugh I suggested we do the same
for the Pygmy Cormorants and one was diving in Kalami Pool and the other three
were in their dead tree in the channel in Kalami Marsh.
What a way to
finish up a magnificent week in sometimes challenging weather with 183 species
of bird and over 30 butterflies and of course the warmth and hospitality of the
wonderful people that we call our friends both islanders and visitors alike.
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