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FACTS & FIGURES
FLIGHTS WITH JET2 FROM EAST MIDLANDS TO PAPHOS, CYPRUS -‐ £ 300 EACH
CAR PARKING AT EAST MIDLANDS AIRPORT -‐ £ 60 ACCOMMODATION IN CYPRUS, VILLA BAXES, PEYIA -‐ £ 600 CAR HIRE IN CYPRUS -‐ £ 200 SPENDING MONEY – APPROX. £ 500 TOTAL COSTS – APPROX. £ 1900 FOR 7 NIGHTS
ITINERARY
WE FLEW FROM EAST MIDLANDS TO PAPHOS, CYPRUS – FLIGHT TIME APPROX. 4.5 HOURS. OUR RENTAL VEHICLE WAS AT THE AIRPORT – A NISSAN NOTE – IT WAS SMALL, BUT OK FOR 2 WITH LUGGAGE. UNFORTUNATELY OUR FLIGHT WAS DELAYED FOR OVER AN HOUR – WHEN WE ARRIVED IN PAPHOS IT WAS NEARLY DARK – ALTHOUGH WE HAD DIRECTIONS TO OUR VILLA IN PEYIA, IT WAS DIFFICULT TO FIND, BUT EVENTUALLY WE FOUND IT & DUMPED OUR LUGGAGE & WENT OUT FOR AN EVENING MEAL. AN EVENING MEAL FOR 2 WAS APPROX. 45 EUROS – ONE NIGHT WE HAD GRILLED RED SNAPPER & THAT WAS 75 EUROS. I VISITED CYPRUS 20 YEARS AGO, SO I KNEW MOST OF THE BEST BIRDING SITES – OUR LONGEST DRIVE WAS TO AKROTIRI – JUST OVER AN HOUR FROM PEYIA. MANDRIA, NEAR PAPHOS AIRPORT, IS A WELL KNOWN SITE FOR RED-‐FOOTED FALCONS ON AUTUMN MIGRATION – UNFORTUNATELY THIS YEAR THEY DIDN’T HANG AROUND & WE MISSED THEM, BUT IT WAS STILL A GOOD TRIP FOR OTHER SPECIES. I FOUND DAVE GOSNEY’S SMALL BOOKLET VERY HELPFUL – FINDING BIRDS IN SOUTHERN CYPRUS.
SYSTEMATIC LIST
GREAT CRESTED GREBE SHAG – 2 MANDRIA CORMORANT BITTERN – A LOCAL FLUSHED 1 FROM THE ROADSIDE AT MANDRIA NIGHT HERON – 7 JUVENILES BATHS OF APHRODITE LITTLE EGRET GREY HERON – ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE TRIP WAS A FLOCK OF 400 GREY & PURPLE HERONS FLYING OVER THE BATHS OF APHRODITE – ALSO ANOTHER FLOCK OF 60 GREY HERONS JUST DOWN THE COAST. PURPLE HERON – PROBABLY 10% OF THE ABOVE FLOCK WERE PURPLE HERONS – MAINLY JUVENILES. WHITE STORK – 5 OVER CORAL BAY SHELDUCK MALLARD GADWALL SHOVELER TEAL POCHARD TUFTED DUCK GRIFFON VULTURE – 1 KENSINGTON CLIFFS BEING MOBBED BY ELEONORA’S FALCONS. BONELLI’S EAGLE – 2 ADULTS THELETRA & 4 ADULTS NEAR ASPROKREMNOS DAM. BLACK KITE – 1 THELETRA MARSH HARRIER
LONG-‐LEGGED BUZZARD – C. 6 BUZZARD HONEY BUZZARD – A DARK JUVENILE AKROTIRI SPARROWHAWK KESTREL HOBBY – 1 ELEONORA’S FALCON – ALWAYS A DELIGHT TO SEE THESE DYNAMIC FALCONS – C. 15 KENSINGTON CLIFFS PEREGRINE – 1 THELETRA BLACK FRANCOLIN – HEARD ONLY CHUKAR PARTRIDGE SMALL CRAKE SPECIES – 1 FLUSHED NEAR PAPHOS AIRPORT MOORHEN COOT STONE-‐CURLEW – 50 IN ONE FIELD AT MANDRIA RINGED PLOVER KENTISH PLOVER – C. 50 LADY’S MILE BEACH GREATER SAND PLOVER – 2 PAPHOS HEADLAND LAPWING DUNLIN LITTLE STINT – C. 10 LADY’S MILE BEACH COMMON SANDPIPER GREENSHANK CURLEW WHIMBREL – 1 PAPHOS HEADLAND
BLACK-‐HEADED GULL MEDITERRANEAN GULL YELLOW-‐LEGGED GULL WOOD PIGEON COLLARED DOVE TURTLE DOVE DIAMOND DOVE – 1 MANDRIA ( ESCAPE ) HOOPOE – 1 AGIA VARVERA KINGFISHER BEE-‐EATER – QUITE A FEW MIGRATING BIRDS CRESTED LARK WOOD LARK SHORT-‐TOED LARK SWALLOW TAWNY PIPIT – 3 PAPHOS HEADLAND & 3 MANDRIA FIELDS TREE PIPIT RED-‐THROATED PIPIT – C. 50 MANDRIA FIELDS WHITE WAGTAIL YELLOW WAGTAIL – C. 100 MANDRIA FIELDS WREN REDSTART – 2 WHEATEAR CYPRUS WHEATEAR – 6 MAVROKOLYMPOS DAM AREA & 4 THELETRA WHINCHAT STONECHAT
BLUE ROCK THRUSH BLACKBIRD BLACKCAP EASTERN ORPHEAN WARBLER – 1 THELETRA SARDINIAN WARBLER – VERY COMMON CYPRUS WARBLER – C. 10 MAVROKOLYMPOS DAM AREA – DISTINCTIVE CALL ZITTING CISTICOLA CETTI’S WARBLER EASTERN OLIVACEOUS WARBLER – 1 PAPHOS HEADLAND WILLOW WARBLER CHIFFCHAFF SPOTTED FLYCATCHER GREAT TIT BLUE TIT RED-‐BACKED SHRIKE – ONLY A FEW MASKED SHRIKE – 2 JUVENILES PAPHOS HEADLAND & 1 JUVENILE NEAR MANDRIA MAGPIE JACKDAW HOODED CROW RAVEN STARLING HOUSE SPARROW SPANISH SPARROW – PAPHOS HEADLAND CHAFFINCH
LINNET GOLDFINCH REED BUNTING CORN BUNTING
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IMAGES BELOW
JUVENILE NIGHT HERON