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October 25th, 2019

25/10/2019

 

Cyprus Bird Watching Tours - BIRD is the WORD - Half-day Tour Paphos 25/10/2019 

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Water Pipit - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
On the 25th I guided Mark and Christine on a half day tour around Paphos.
We started at Mavrokolympus Dam in hope of some Cyprus Warblers still being around. There was a few though they weren't showing overly well, which isn't uncommon for this time of year. A Cyprus Wheatear flew in and landed next to us for a fair amount of time, so both Endemics in the space of a few minutes. 
Sardinian Warblers and many Stonechat were present and also a group of Chukar showed very well close to the car, with one sitting on top of a rock some meters from the road. There wasn't anything on the water and as we were walking back I spotted a female Common Redstart which showed very well for a lengthy period of time. European Robins were calling with some very brief views and a male Spanish Sparrow showed very well in a nearby bush.
We then headed to the Sewage Plant for the Spur-winged Lapwing, of-which 20-30 birds were showing (though none of the Northern Lapwings were present that I had seen recently). At the entrance we was greeted with a group of Water Pipit next to the road and at the irrigation puddles were White Wagtail, Grey Wagtail and Spanish Sparrow.
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Spanish Sparrow - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
​The Alfalfa field held many Red-throated Pipit and a few Tree Pipit also took up. Just before we left a Common Buzzard shot low over the tree line being mobbed by a big group of Hooded Crows.
Next we headed to Agia Varvara seeing a Long-legged Buzzard perched and in flight causing confusion due to the fact the white rump wasn't visible on this one, but various factors ruled out Common or Steppe Buzzard. 
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Long-legged Buzzard - Cyprus Bird Watching Tours Bird is the Word © Matt Smith All Rights Reserved
We got great views of Common Snipe and Grey Wagtail plus some Pintail and a single Garganey on the pools. Reed Warblers were showing at the ford, Cetti's and Great Reed Warbler called in the distance. A pair of Wandering Glider dragonflies were in copula at the ford also which is a very uncommon sighting in Cyprus. A Green Sandpiper kept flying over but would not settle. Plenty of finches seemed to have arrived in the area recently, with good numbers of Linnet, Goldfinch, Greenfinch and Serin. 
A quick stop at Anarita Park produced a single Finsch's Wheatear on winter territory, and then we finished up at Mandria seeing Skylark, Yellow-wagtail, many Northern Wheatear and a Falcon species very high up that could well have been a juvenile Saker. 
We finished the half day with 49 Species.
Species List:

Chukar Partridge    
(h)Black Francolin    
Northern Pintail
Garganey   
Common Kestrel      
Common Buzzard
Long-legged Buzzard
(h)Water Rail
(h)Common Moorhen  
Spur-winged Lapwing
Common Snipe 
Green Sandpiper 
Yellow-legged Gull 
Common Wood-pigeon   
Eurasian Collared-dove
Laughing Dove
Eurasian Magpie    
Eurasian Jackdaw   
Hooded Crow
Great Tit
Crested Lark  
Eurasian Skylark
Zitting Cisticola  
(h)Cetti's Warbler
Eurasian Reed-warbler
(h)Great Reed-warbler

Willow Warbler
Common Chiffchaff 
Blackcap 
Sardinian Warbler
Cyprus Warbler 
European Robin
Common Redstart
Common Stonechat
Northern Wheatear 
Finsch's Wheatear
Cyprus Wheatear
House Sparrow 
Spanish Sparrow    
White Wagtail
Yellow Wagtail (*Flava)   
Tree Pipit 
Red-throated Pipit
Water Pipit (*Caucasian Water Pipit)
European Serin 
European Greenfinch    
European Goldfinch
Common Linnet
Corn Bunting
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