Song Trush
Common Redstart
Black Redstart
Honey Buzzard
Hawfinch
juv. Bluetits
Thursday 15 May 2014
Local patch
Calm days around. I was just checking my garden surroundings these days and some nice birds are hanging around. Yesterday 6 Honey Buzzards flew ower the house (2 of them presents the local pair which will probalbly nest in the forest behind our house). Wryneck is common around I would say 2 pairs are in our small willage and also this year pair of Common Redstarts is nesting above my balcony (total about 5 pairs in the willage). Other interesting birds around like pair of Red-backed Shrikes, Golden Orioles, Spotted Flycatchers, Hawfinches, Cuckoos etc.
Sunday 4 May 2014
Island of Pag
Currently i got home from 1 week photo-birding holidays from 26th April to 3rd May with Alen on island of Pag (Croatia).
Weather was bad this year with daily showers but even sun periods on a daily basis. As usual many birds around the island. We checked well known locations Velo blato, Malo blato, Kolansko blato and Dinjiške saltpans every day and also some other locations. Every morning we wake up at 3.30 and went on morning photo sessisions. We wait for about 5 ours and than had a breakfast. After that we drive around the island and look for some birds until 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon when we again went photographing. All in all we managed to get some interesting species and some very good photos. Together we recorded 108 species but no lifers this time.
1. Mute Swan
2. Greylag Goose: not really common in this time of the year
3. Shelduck
4. Mallard
5. Gadwall
6. Shoveler
7. Garganey
8. Rock Patridge: very common, singing everywhere and also some seen well
9. Quail
10. Pheasant
11. Little Grebe
12. Great-crested Grebe
13. Cormorant
14. Shag (desmarestii subspecies)
15. Pygmy Cormorant
16. Night Heron
17. CATTLE EGRET: 3 individuals at flooded fields near Dinjiške saltpans
18. Squacco Heron: fairly common, up to 12 at Dinjiške saltpans
19. Little Egret
20. Great Egret
21. Grey Heron
22. Purple Heron
23. Glossy Ibis: large flock of 21 individuals at Dinjiške ssaltpans
24. Spoonbill
25. White-tailed Eagle: 1 at Velo blato; probalbly very rare on the island
26. Short-toed Eagle
27. Marsh Harrier
28. Montagu's Harrier: 3 pairs nesting at Malo blato
29. Kestrel
30. Red-footed Falcon
31. Peregrine Falcon
32. Moorhen
33. Coot
34. Avocet
35. Black-winged Stilt
36. Stone Curlew: common on the rocky slopes of the island; some calling even at daylight and about 6 were seen.
37. Little-ringed Plover
38. Ringed Plover
39. Kentish Plover
40. Grey Plover
41. Dunlin
42. Wood Sandpiper
43. Green Sandpiper
44. Common Sandpiper
45. Redshank
46. Spotted Redshank
47. Greenshank
48. Marsh Sandpiper
49. Black-tailed Godwit
50. Curlew
51. Whimbrel
52. Snipe
53. Ruff
54. Black-headed Gull
55. Yellow-legged Gull
56. GULL-BILLED TERN: 3 seen, 1 at sea in front of Malo blato and 2 at Dinjiške saltpans
57. Common Tern
58. White-winged Tern
59. Whiskered Tern
60. Rock Dove
61. Collared Dove
62. Turtle Dove
63. Little Owl
64. Swift
65. Hoopoe: common, singing everywhere
66. Bee-eater
67. Wryneck
68. Skylark
69. Crested Lark
70. Short-toed Lark: 3 were seen well on the rocky slopes above Velo blato
71. Calandra Lark: common on rocky slopes above Velo blato, up to 5 singing males at one point
72. Sand Martin
73. Barn Swallow
74. House Martin
75. Tawny Pipit
76. Red-throated Pipit
77. White Wagtail
78. Yellow Wagtail: ssp. flava, cinereocapilla
79. CITRINE WAGTAIL: 2 seen well at Kolansko blato
80. Nightingale
81. Redstart
82. Black-eared Wheatear
83. Whinchat
84. Blackbird
85. Blue Rock Trush
86. Whitethroat
87. Sardinian Warbler
88. Subalpine Warbler: commonest warbler on the island, at one location i've had about 10 singing males at only one point and points like that are common
89. Great Reed Warbler
90. Willow Warbler
91. Wood Warbler
92. Chiffchaff
93. Spotted Flycatcher
94. Pied Flycatcher
95. Collared Flycatcher
96. Great Tit
97. Red-backed Shrike
98. Woodchat Shrike: fairly common everywhere
99. Hooded Crow
100. Golden Oriole
101. House Sparrow
102. Spanish Sparrow: large colonies at some places
103. Linnet
104. Goldfinch
105. Greenfinch
106. Serin
107. Cirl Bunting
108. Corn Bunting
Some Photos:
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Weather was bad this year with daily showers but even sun periods on a daily basis. As usual many birds around the island. We checked well known locations Velo blato, Malo blato, Kolansko blato and Dinjiške saltpans every day and also some other locations. Every morning we wake up at 3.30 and went on morning photo sessisions. We wait for about 5 ours and than had a breakfast. After that we drive around the island and look for some birds until 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon when we again went photographing. All in all we managed to get some interesting species and some very good photos. Together we recorded 108 species but no lifers this time.
1. Mute Swan
2. Greylag Goose: not really common in this time of the year
3. Shelduck
4. Mallard
5. Gadwall
6. Shoveler
7. Garganey
8. Rock Patridge: very common, singing everywhere and also some seen well
9. Quail
10. Pheasant
11. Little Grebe
12. Great-crested Grebe
13. Cormorant
14. Shag (desmarestii subspecies)
15. Pygmy Cormorant
16. Night Heron
17. CATTLE EGRET: 3 individuals at flooded fields near Dinjiške saltpans
18. Squacco Heron: fairly common, up to 12 at Dinjiške saltpans
19. Little Egret
20. Great Egret
21. Grey Heron
22. Purple Heron
23. Glossy Ibis: large flock of 21 individuals at Dinjiške ssaltpans
24. Spoonbill
25. White-tailed Eagle: 1 at Velo blato; probalbly very rare on the island
26. Short-toed Eagle
27. Marsh Harrier
28. Montagu's Harrier: 3 pairs nesting at Malo blato
29. Kestrel
30. Red-footed Falcon
31. Peregrine Falcon
32. Moorhen
33. Coot
34. Avocet
35. Black-winged Stilt
36. Stone Curlew: common on the rocky slopes of the island; some calling even at daylight and about 6 were seen.
37. Little-ringed Plover
38. Ringed Plover
39. Kentish Plover
40. Grey Plover
41. Dunlin
42. Wood Sandpiper
43. Green Sandpiper
44. Common Sandpiper
45. Redshank
46. Spotted Redshank
47. Greenshank
48. Marsh Sandpiper
49. Black-tailed Godwit
50. Curlew
51. Whimbrel
52. Snipe
53. Ruff
54. Black-headed Gull
55. Yellow-legged Gull
56. GULL-BILLED TERN: 3 seen, 1 at sea in front of Malo blato and 2 at Dinjiške saltpans
57. Common Tern
58. White-winged Tern
59. Whiskered Tern
60. Rock Dove
61. Collared Dove
62. Turtle Dove
63. Little Owl
64. Swift
65. Hoopoe: common, singing everywhere
66. Bee-eater
67. Wryneck
68. Skylark
69. Crested Lark
70. Short-toed Lark: 3 were seen well on the rocky slopes above Velo blato
71. Calandra Lark: common on rocky slopes above Velo blato, up to 5 singing males at one point
72. Sand Martin
73. Barn Swallow
74. House Martin
75. Tawny Pipit
76. Red-throated Pipit
77. White Wagtail
78. Yellow Wagtail: ssp. flava, cinereocapilla
79. CITRINE WAGTAIL: 2 seen well at Kolansko blato
80. Nightingale
81. Redstart
82. Black-eared Wheatear
83. Whinchat
84. Blackbird
85. Blue Rock Trush
86. Whitethroat
87. Sardinian Warbler
88. Subalpine Warbler: commonest warbler on the island, at one location i've had about 10 singing males at only one point and points like that are common
89. Great Reed Warbler
90. Willow Warbler
91. Wood Warbler
92. Chiffchaff
93. Spotted Flycatcher
94. Pied Flycatcher
95. Collared Flycatcher
96. Great Tit
97. Red-backed Shrike
98. Woodchat Shrike: fairly common everywhere
99. Hooded Crow
100. Golden Oriole
101. House Sparrow
102. Spanish Sparrow: large colonies at some places
103. Linnet
104. Goldfinch
105. Greenfinch
106. Serin
107. Cirl Bunting
108. Corn Bunting
Some Photos:
Kentish Plover
Spotted Sandpiper
Little-ringed Plover
Common Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Black-winged Stilt
Ruff
Citrine Wagtail
Short-toed Lark
Gloosy Ibises and Little Egrets
Tawny Pipit
Subalpine Warbler
Sardinian Warbler
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