17 May 2024 - Latchi, Neo Chorio, Cyprus

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Rollers, Redstart, Cyprus Wheatear, Bee-eaters, Spotted Flycatcher, Spanish Sparrow, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler (h), Red-rumped Swallow, Sardinian Warblers, Cretzschmar's Bunting, Little Egret, Chukar, Stone Curlew (h), Nightjar (h)

This morning I walked down towards Latchi, where the Rollers had been on view yesterday. The light is against you from the road in the morning, so I circled round the far side of the field and was able to watch both birds on the wires and flitting back and forth, albeit distantly. A male Redstart was nearby briefly. On the way back I came across about a hundred or so Bee-eaters feeding overhead.

Around lunchtime we drove up to Smygies for a picnic, but birdlife was very quiet apart from a single Cretzschmar's Bunting which dropped into the tops of the trees briefly, though somewhat against the light.

In the late afternoon I went for a walk uphill from the villa and two Chukars flew across the road in front of me before disappearing into the scrub. A Sardinian Warbler sat up nicely on a stalk, and in the evening I heard Stone Curlews calling as well as Nightjars churring. Moth sightings included Crimson Speckled and Pale Shoulder, and a pair of Kestrels were flying around over the fields just down from the villa.

Roller, 1/500 sec, f/7.1, 500 mm, ISO 200