Highlights today included a Laughing Dove at the grain store (finally caught up with these birds), a Wood Warbler in our neighbours garden, a couple of Levant Sparrowhawks, Montagu's Harrier on the village steppe and about 30 Red-backed Shrike in the village. Wood Warbler was new for our project Ebird hotspot HERE
At mid-day we met up with the rather lovely Alex who we are buying a caravan off to sort out the logistics of that. She showed us a secret way down to the beach down the cliffs nearby too which was handy.
There's a moderate north east wind blowing which is never great for migration out here (westerlies are better). Apparantely the wind has been persistent for weeks and it's been dry too resulting in not a great autumn migration round here this year so far.
Laughing Dove at Sveti Nikola grain store. Only took us a year to see one of these resident breeding birds.
Pied Wheatear at the Cape- quite a pale one, maybe a juvenile male. One for the Cape Kaliakra Pied Wheatear collection HERE
Hobby at the Cape
Red-breasted Flycatchers are prominent but haven't seen a single Ficedula flycatcher and just a few Spot Flys. Also no Whinchats and just a few Redstarts. Overall it's pretty quiet- we only had 28 species on Cape Kaliakra which I think has to be a record low.
Lesser Whitethroat is the most prominent warbler at the moment with a few Blackcaps and Whitethroats and very few Willow Warblers and not a single Chiffchaff yet
Syrian Woodpecker- we've got Syrian, Great and Lesser Spot and Green in the village
The moth traps (MV and the Lepiled) have been pretty busy. A couple of highlights include this unidentified rather distinctive moth (above) and what looks something along the lines of Gold-banded Etiella Moth (below). Will sort out the identifications properly on the I-Nat project HERE
The new local spot down the cliffs to the beach
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