I had another look at Limassol Salt Lake this morning but no sign of any cranes again. I checked an area of shrub around Kourion about 15km west of Limassol and had a nice selection of passerines in the area including my first Cyprus Wheatears. I had one probable fly-over Cretzschmar's Bunitng the previous day and another around the Kourion in the morning but I eventually had cracking views of an adult male feeding by the roadside further inland near Kouris Reservoir.
For the remainder of the day I headed inland and up to the Troodos Mountains. I caught up with all of the endemic subspecies up there excluding of course the Scops Owl which is very hard to pick up if they aren't calling like they do in Spring. At my first stop I could hear a pair of Jays kicking up a right racket and was amazed to see that they were mobbing a perched Goshawk. I haven't seen many perched Goshawks before.
For the remainder of the day I headed inland and up to the Troodos Mountains. I caught up with all of the endemic subspecies up there excluding of course the Scops Owl which is very hard to pick up if they aren't calling like they do in Spring. At my first stop I could hear a pair of Jays kicking up a right racket and was amazed to see that they were mobbing a perched Goshawk. I haven't seen many perched Goshawks before.
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| Cyprus Warbler |
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| Cyprus Warbler |
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| Cyprus Warbler |
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| Cyprus Warbler |
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| Cyprus Wheatear |
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| Cyprus Wheatear |
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| Cyprus Wheatear |
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| Cyprus Wheatear |
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| Cyprus Wheatear |
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| Cyprus Wheatear |
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| Cyprus Wheatear |
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| Lesser Grey Shrike and Woodchat Shrike. |
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| Woodchat Shrike |
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| Lesser Grey Shrike |
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| Cyprus Jay Garrulus glandarius glaszneri |
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| Cyprus Jay Garrulus glandarius glaszneri |
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| Cyprus Jay Garrulus glandarius glaszneri |
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| Adult Northern Goshawk |
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| Cyprus Coal Tit Parus ater cypriotes |
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| Cyprus Coal Tit Parus ater cypriotes |
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| Cyprus Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla dorotheae |
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| Cyprus Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla dorotheae |
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| Cyprus Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla dorotheae |
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| Cyprus Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla dorotheae |
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| Eurasian Wren |
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