Had some time to spare this morning so thought I'd check some sites around Paphos and land at Mandria to do some raptor watching at the famous bottle neck site. Raptor migration was pretty poor, and really just the usual birds about. Lower Ezousas 18-Sep 1 Grey Heron 1 Hoopoe 15 European Bee-Eater 2 Eleonora's Falcon 1 Cetti's Warbler 2 Zitting Cisticola 1 Sedge Warbler (Posing like a whinchat) 3 Red-Rumped Swallow Sardinian Warbler 3 Red-Backed Shrike 1 Masked Shrike Barn Swallow Yellow Wagtail 1 Black Francolin 1 Cattle Egret 1 Common Kestrel Great Tit 2 Whinchat Spur-winged Lapwing Agia Varvara European Bee-Eater 1 Common Snipe Crested Lark Chukar Yellow Wagtail 2 Willow Warbler 1 Black Francolin 1 Honey Buzzard (very pale) 1 Common Kestrel 1 Red-Backed Shrike 2 Sardinian Warbler Mandria 3 Common Kestrel Yellow Wagtail (football pitch) 8 Honey Buzzard 1 Eleonora's Falcon 1 Grey Heron 2 Little Ringed Plover 2 Greater Short-Toed Lark 2 Tawny Pipit 2 Yellow Legged Gull 1 Lesser Grey Shike 2 Whinchat 3 Shag Crested Lark *osprey had been sighted at Asprokremnos Dam | |