We are both feeling the effects of early starts, disturbed nights over the whole of the Cypriot Easter period (why have fireworks when everyone will hear the bangers let of at 2 or 4 am for miles, stumbling over various rocks secreted in the long grass and now, now it's also starting to heat up. We didn't feel like putting up a lot of nets so settled for a triple full height and a single along a fence line, 66 metres in total.
We got nine birds but there were some good ones.
Black-headed Bunting 5M
Masked Shrike 5M
4M Corn Bunting
6M Cretzschmar's Bunting
Total: 9
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler - 3
Sardinian Warbler - 1
Blackcap - 1
Masked Shrike - 1
Corn Bunting - 1
Cretzschmar's Bunting - 1
Black-headed Bunting - 1
Vretsia, an abandoned Turkish village
Common Mallow
On the drive back, a stop off at a small stream turned up Eastern Festoon, Clouded Yellow, Pygmy Skipper and Common Blue
Pygmy Skipper
Common Blue
Oblisque
At Agia Varvara we found a Woodchat Shrike and a Great Bittern. We're still looking for some of the dragonflies and damselflies that should be out by now. It has to be remembered that with so much scoured from waterways by the floods, some populations will be reduced. Also the late rise in temperature will also affected hatching dates.
Woodchat Shrike
Red-veined Darter
Violet Dropwing
Indigo Dropwing
We finished the day off at Timi, hoping to see the Rose-coloured Starling that had been reported, but there was no sign of it by the late afternoon. A few birds began to come in at the end of the day including a Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, two Hoopoes and a Curlew Sandpiper.
Spur-winged Plover
Curlew Sandpiper