This video is called Lesvos Birds Spring 2012.
After the early morning of 6 May in Lesbos, Greece, we continued to the north of the island.
In the central mountains, a blue tit and a rock nuthatch.
The nuthatch has company on the rocks. The biggest lizard species of the island, the stellion, is there as well.
This is a stellion video, showing a Rhodos rock lizard as well.
A Cretzschmar’s bunting singing from the top of a bush. Very rarely, this species is a vagrant in the Netherlands.
The first blackbird that we see on Lesbos.
This spot is famous for raptor migration. Today, however, we see just one sparrowhawk and two short-toed eagles.
We go on to the north coast. A turtle dove on the telephone wire. A black-headed bunting singing on a telephone pole.
A male linnet.
Rüppel’s warbler. A subalpine warbler singing from a leafless branch in a bush.
A red-backed shrike. A masked shrike .
Eurasian crag martins flying around.
Then, a beautiful male blue rockthrush, sitting on a fence to the right of a black-eared wheatear.
Five juvenile shags swimming in the sea below us.
Two ruddy shelducks flying overhead.
Just as we are about to leave, two short-toed eagles come, flying closely to us.
We arrive near the medieval fortress of Mithymna. A little owl sitting on a fence.
Again, stellion lizards.
Over ten bee-eaters flying around.
Alpine swifts flying near the fortress.
A Balkan marbled white butterfly sitting on a field scabious flower.
A great tit on a fence.
At our next stop, more to the east along the north coast, a red-backed shrike. A painted lady butterfly.
A lesser spotted eagle overhead.
A chaffinch singing.
Next, to the Petra reservoir.
Many yellow-legged gulls. A couple of ruddy shelducks, with ducklings.
A male subalpine warbler singing.
Then, something special: a rare Eleonora’s falcon flies past.
Back to the south. Back to our first stop of the morning.
In a bush, two linnets, and a red-backed shrike sitting on the branch under them.
Near Skala Kallonis: a greenfinch singing. Marsh frog sounds.
Barn swallows driving a jay away from a swimming pool.
Late in the evening: a European mole-cricket crossing the road.
2 incompletely described species of Gryllotalpa (Gryllotalpidae) from China: here.
Here we present the first unequivocal evidence that an individual bird of the Alpine swift (Tachymarptis melba) can stay airborne for migration, foraging and roosting over a period of more than 6 months: here.
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