If the keen birder checks all of the small pools surrounding Kalloni saltpans area he might increase his holiday list. The lagoons to the North and East were particularly fruitful, yielding up to ten Great Whites and several Temminck's. I failed to see a Terek sand which got mentioned but stumbled upon this beauty...
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| Spur-winged Plover ( Copyright T D Wright ) |
When I got back to the Hotel, another birder responded to my 'news' by saying 'Oh that's been there a week'. Oh well, I didn't know that this particular pool had anything on it so I feel as though I
earned it, even if somebody already
found it! I hadn't even realised this pool was known to anybody else, as I never saw them checking it! Anyhow, I'm glad that a number of birders got to enjoy it. What an extraordinary-looking bird...
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| Spur-winged Plover ( Copyright T D Wright ) |
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| Spur-winged Plover ( Copyright T D Wright ) |
Sorry the pics aren't better but I couldn't get any closer or I would've flushed it. Fortunately, the Stilts were much more tame...
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| Black-winged Stilt ( Copyright T D Wright ) |
I reckon they were all escapes...
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| Black-winged Stilt ( Copyright T D Wright ) |
All 10,000 of them...
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| Black-winged Stilt ( Copyright T D Wright ) |
Just like all the Black and White Storks are tame, obviously escaped, birds...
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| Black-winged Stilt ( Copyright T D Wright ) |
I mean, the White Storks nest on the little church in Skala Kallonis and the Black stork by the road bridge near our hotel was NOT easily flushable. I think they must have learned to tolerate humans; a reciprocal arrangement, I guess. Or I hope, at least.
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