Cyprus birds

 

Yellow-legged Gull at Cape Drepanum, Agios Georgios

White Wagtail

Tawny Pipit at Phasouri Reedbeds

Stonechat

Spur-winged Plover

Spoonbills

Spanish Sparrows, Mandria

Sardinian Warbler, these were literally everywhere

Rupell's Warbler

Ruff

Red-throated Pipit

Hoopoe, huge numbers of these on the island

Hooded Crow

Great Spotted Cuckoo

Flamingoes at Akrotiri

Cretzschmar's Bunting

Chukar

Chiffchaff  

Fantastic to see a fall of chiffchaffs with 100's on the point one day and gone the next

Blue Rock Thrush

Blackcap

Black Redstart

Alpine Swift at Aspro Dam

Bulgaria birds

Spanish sparrows nesting in the bottom of storks nests 

Spanish Sparrows 

Syrian Woodpecker - the only new bird that Karen added to her world list 

Turtle Doves - we saw flocks and flocks of these, some as large as 100. They were on all the wires, feeding in all the fields, absolutely everywhere. A total contrast to the UK.  

Spanish Sparrows