Birds seen | Comments |
African Collared Dove |
in garden by newspaper Kiosk |
Alpine Swift |
seven seen on one occasion |
Blackbird |
Numerous |
Black-headed Bunting |
numerous-all around the telephone wires etc. Femails seen only after the 14/5/98 |
Black-headed Wagtail |
numerous |
Blue Rock Thrush |
on houses on Skala end of Ano Katelios |
Blue Tit |
Fairly numerous |
Blue-headed Wagtail |
numerous |
Bonelli's Warbler |
by bushes on track leading away from accomodation. |
Broad-billed Sandpiper |
one dropped exhausted right by beach |
Collared Dove |
Up to five around katelios village |
Common Bittern |
flushed up approx 06:00am by beach bar |
Common Buzzard |
regularly seen around area, one caught a snake within 50' of where we were walking. |
Common Kestrel |
1 pair seen regularly, poss-nesting in hill back of Katelios |
Common Sandpiper |
two seen regularly on edge of beach by stream near beach bar. |
Common Swift |
numerous |
Common Whitethroat |
on bushes next to stream bridge on main road |
Corn Bunting |
quite a few dotted around wires and bushes |
Crested Lark |
Fairly numerous |
Curlew Sandpiper |
Up to five seen, aprrox 200 yards from beach bar. |
Dunlin |
by beach bar, seen only once. |
Eleonora's Falcon |
flew from ridge overlooking Katelios beach |
European Bee-eater |
four on 7/5/98 |
Goldfinch |
Numerous |
Great Tit |
in Ano Katelios village |
Greenfinch |
Numerous |
Grey Heron |
two seen flying across beach on 10/5/98 |
Grey Wagtail |
up to three dotted along stream running through Katelios |
Honey Buzzard |
one seen towards dusk-approx 1 mile from Katelios |
Hooded Crow |
numerous |
Hoopoe |
one flew past apartment balcony |
House Martin |
numerous |
House Sparrow |
very numerous |
Jay |
by apartment |
Lesser Grey Shrike |
1st of year on wires only about 50 feet from appartment |
Little Bittern |
1 pair flying up from stream and one by beach bar on reeds. |
Marsh Sandpiper |
one by beach bar |
Moorhen |
up to four in stream by beach bar in Katelios |
Nightingale |
one seen plus others heard around stream |
Olivaceous Warbler |
Fairly numerous |
Pied Flycatcher |
female and only P.Fly seen |
Red-footed Falcon |
on wire outside of apartment |
Red-rumped Swallow |
very numerous in this area fairly large numbers |
Rufous Bush Chat |
one dropped into bush within 20 yards of us. |
Sand Martin |
numerous |
Sardinian Warbler |
1 pair with 4 chicks in hedge by our apartments, numerous. |
Scops Owl |
on wires on top of hill overlooking the area. |
Spanish Sparrow |
20 by pool on dirt track on edge of Ano Katelio |
Spotted Flycatcher |
fairly numerous |
Stonechat |
numerous |
Swallow |
numerous |
Turnstone |
with C.Sandpiper |
Turtle Dove |
on telephone wires in Ano Katelios |
Whinchat |
numerous |
Wood Sandpiper |
by beach bar in Katelios |
Woodchat Shrike |
numerous with females in some places |
Yellow Wagtail |
numerous in fields (especially by grazing sheep) |
Yellow-legged Gull |
around beach and village area |