| 1st June. On the coast. We found a little ringed plover; a little egret; a fan tailed warbler; and near home a hoopoe.
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| 4th June. At Rapaniana. A singing sedge warbler.
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| 5th June. At Neo Chorio. A short toed eagle flew over carrying food – a snake.
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| 8th June. At Neo Chorio. A barn owl was hissing and snoring late at night.
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| 9th June. On the coast. A single rough legged buzzard; a pallid swift; and a fan tailed warbler.
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| 11th June. At Neo Chorio. A single eleonoras falcon.
Along the coast. We found whinchat; fan tailed warbler; and the same sedge warbler singing.
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| 12th June. At Neo Chorio. A turtle dove sang all day.
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| 13th June. At Neo Chorio. The first cicada started to sing – we reckon summer has properly arrived when they start to sing.
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| 14th June. At Neo Chorio. A pair of swallows came into the lounge several times, circling around and twittering to us.
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| 16th June. At Neo Chorio. A flock of 10+ eleonoras falcons in the morning and then another 3 in the afternoon.
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| 17th June. At Neo Chorio. A pair of short toed eagles with a newly fledged juvenile were heavily mobbed by a pair of local buzzards. The adults were trying desperately to protect their young, which was obviously very inexperienced at dodging buzzard attacks.
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| 18th June. At Neo Chorio. The turtle dove sang for hours and a grey heron flew along the valley.
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| 19th June. At
Rodopou peninsula. We ventured out onto the Rodopou peninsula but as we got there so did the cloud and visibility dropped to 20 metres. We did manage to see woodlarks; stonechats; wheatears; and a male blue rock thrush. On the way back we saw a fan railed warbler and a grey heron on the coast.
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| 20th June. At Nembros. Both adult short toed eagles.
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| 21st June. At Neo Chorio. A single eleonoras falcon.
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| 23rd June. At Tavronitis. A flock of 47 wood sandpipers in a wide range of plumages from adult breeding to new juvenile.
At Neo Chorio. One adult and a juvenile short toed eagle; a pair of ravens; and a male sparrowhawk.
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| 27th June. At Neo Chorio. 20 swallows were perched on the wires, all juveniles familiarising themselves with the area so they will recognise it if they survive migration and return next year. Sadly one will not even get to start migration as later on it flew into the house and our feline friend Toffee put an and to its short
life. I need to have strong words with Toffee, as he had attacked the scops owl last month and in the last few days has killed three bats as well as the swallow. This will not do! Later we saw 24 pallid swifts; an eleonoras falcon; and the male sparrowhawk.
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| 28th June. At Neo Chorio. The turtle dove competed with the cicadas to see who made the most noise. A lanner falcon came by very low down at first but then started to circle higher and higher until it disappeared into the haze. Both the adults and the juvenile short toed eagle circled for ages. Later 30+ pallid
swifts and a dark phase eleonoras falcon.
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| 29th June. At Neo Chorio. Both adult short toed eagles again, and as I was watching them something floated into the field of view and it took me several seconds to realise it was a juvenile bearded vulture! The first we have seen in our valley. It quickly decided it was not to its liking and very rapidly sped down the valley and
out of sight. It was probably crossing from inland to one of the peninsulas in search of food. At dusk 150+ pallid swifts circled high over the twittering local swallows.
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