End of April, full days of birding

Posted on by Eleni Galinou

Another spring with Ashley and Wendy and their group from the UK! Many photographers in the team this time.

Here are some record photos of mine from a week’s birding with them:

White Storks (Ciconia ciconia)
European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster)
Laughing Dove (Spilopelia senegalensis)
Ruffs (Calidris pugnax)
Spur-winged Plover (Vanellus spinosus) and Ruff (Calidris pugnax)
Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus)
Another Spur-winged Plover away from wetlands
Red-footed Falcons (Falco vespertinus)- 3 males and a female!
Some more Red-footed Falcons preaning!
Short-toed Eagle (Circaetus gallicus)
The Short-toed Eagle catching the same thermal with hirundines!
Scops Owl (Otus scops)
Rüppell’s Warbler (Curruca rupelli)
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (Iduna pallida)
Cretzschmar’s Bunting (Emberiza caesia), female
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear (Oenanthe melanoleuca)
Cirl Bunting (Emberiza cirlus)
Birding at one of the inland small wetlands of Lesvos.
Poppies by our birding track

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