April 1998 - scanned from Fuji slides and negatives
The Fujichrome 100 ASA slides have held their vivid colours well .Unfortunately, the 400 ASA films got very hot when I left them in the car for about an hour. The canisters were so hot I'm amazed any of the films survived. The first few pictures of each film were lost.
All photographs copyright Paul Gale Bird Photography
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| Highlight was a quail migrating in off sea at Paphos, and the Caspian Plover | 17 April 1998 Hooded crows, swallows, house sparrows from jeep from airport Cape Greko - 7 am, Masked Shrike, 2 black-headed buntings, hoopoe, bee-eaters, red-rumped swallow, isabelline wheatears, m Marsh Harrier in tree.
Larnaca - salt pools many waders, Little stints, Greenshanks, Black-winged stilts, 50+ Marsh Sandpipers, Ruff, 1x Greater Flamingo, 10+ Slender-billed Gulls (pinkish hue on breast), Male Collared Flycatcher, dark phase Eleonora's falcon (very slender winged), 20+ Bee-eaters on lines outside Larnaca.
B3, Crested Lark, eastern form of Jackdaw, 2 rollers. |
18 April, Saturday Larnaca, 2 Greater Flamingoes, 10+ Kentish plovers, 50+ Marsh Sandpipers, Ruffs, Common Sandpiper, Crested Larks, Little Stints, Greenshanks, 10+ Slender-billed gulls (red eye, black bill, long slim body)
Coast road to Aija Napa, 1 Wryneck |
19 April 1998, Sunday, trip to Akrotiri/Pahpos From car, Montague's Harrier, Roller on line, Alpine swifts 2 Zakaki Pools 1f Pallid Harrier (very pale), Marsh Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, Squacco Heron, 2 Purple Herons Little Egrets, 1f Pintail, Garganeys, Shoveller Kentish Plover, Little Ringed Plover, f Collared Flycatcher Drove around Lake Akritiri - Marsh Sands, KPs and Kestrel Phasouri Reed beds, 20+ Glossy Ibis, 11 Cattle Egrets, Garganey, f Marsh Harrier, 1 Bittern, Squacco Herons, Fan-tailed Warblers, Purple Heron, 20+ Marsh Sandpipers
Episkopi Road, 2 Alpine swifts Pafos Lighthouse Hoopoe,. Blue-headed Wagtail, 20+ Black-headed Wagtail, Woodchat, 2x Grey Herons flying over, Crested Larks, f Caspian Plover, Swallows, Kestrel, Asprokremnos pools, 2 Little Crakes, 1 Squacco Heron
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| 20 April 1998 - Monday Zakaki pools, 15 Purple herons flying over, Marsh Sandpipers, 5 Wood Sandpipers, Black-winged stilt, Little Egret, 1 Squacco Heron - feeding along far edge, Reeve, 4 Squaccos along far bank, Grey heron, LRP,
Phazouri reed beds, Little Egrets
Akritiri gravel pits Whinchat, 2 pratincoles flying, 2 rollers, 1 spotted flycatcher
Paphos lighthouse, f Caspian plover, Black-headed Wagtails, Pied Flycatcher m, Asprokremnos pools, 1 Night Heron, 10+ Alpine swifts, 2 red-rumped swallows, 1 great-spotted cuckoo |
21 April 1998, Tuesday Paphos lighthouse, 6-00 am to 8:30 am 2Red-throated pipits, many Black-headed Wagtails, 1 Ruff, 2 Short-toed Lark, Woodchat Shrike, Hoopoe, Crested Larks, 2 Tawny pipits, Nightingale Black Francolin singing in corn from road to Asprokremnos pools - 2 Little Bitterns (f), 3 Squacco herons, m Garganey, Little Crake, Coot, Moorhen, Chuka Marsh Harrier, Roller displaying, 1 Squacco heron nearly run-over in road
Afternoon trip to west coast, 8 Night herons flying, singing Cyprus pied wheatear, Bee-eater on lines, red-rumped swallows,
Paphos lighthouse, 21 Short-toed larks, Ruff, 15 Spoonbills flying over Paphos lighthouse, 1 Woodchat, 1 m Collared Flycatcher, f Golden oriole flying, Kestrel, Great tit |
22 April 1998 - Wednesday Paphos lighthouse - 1 m Masked shrike, Black-headed Wagtails, 1 Woodchat, Nightingale, Hoopoe
Road to Pollis - Roller flying Polis, Cyprus Pied Wheatear, Corn Bunting
Stream by church - Black-headed Bunting - male drying after bath, m Collared Flycatcher, Woodchat, Great tit, Bee-eaters, Red-rumped Swallows picking up mud, Goldfinches, Linnets, m Redstart, Spanish Sparrow, Olivaceous Warbler, Sparrowhawk, m Golden oriole in tree, m Sardinian Warbler
Paphos lighthouse - pm, Masked shrike, 2 Cyprus pied Wheatears, flock of shor-toed Lark, Crested Lark, 3 Gull-billed Terns, 6 Night herons, trying to land in trees by Apollo, 1f Northern Wheatear, Yellow-legged gull, m+f Pied Flycatcher, Wood warbler, 1 Tawny Pipit, Greenfinch, 2 Whinchat, Hoopoe, 2 invasions of Bee-easters, Collared dove, house sparrow, 4 LRP, Kestrel, Black-headed Wagtails |
23 April 1998 Thursday Paphos lighthouse 6-30 am 5 Caspian Terns, 2 Gull-billed Terns, 3 Stone Curlews (2+1) flying in off sea. Woodchat shrike. After breakfast, 1 Isabelline wheatear, 3 Tawny Pipits, 15+ Short-toed Larks, 4 Little-ringed Plovers
Mandria 1 Collared pratincole, 2 Woodchats on posts, 1 Stone Curlew landed on beach, 1 Isabelline wheatear, 1 Tawny pipit, m Golden Oriole Asprokremnos dam - 1 pm Cyprus Warblers singing, Spectacled Warblers display flight, Temink's stint, Wood Sandpiper
Road to Troodos from Aspro-pools 2 Rollers
Mandria - f Black-eared Wheatear
Aspro pools 3:30 pm Little Bittern flying into reds, 2 Ortalon Buntings, 1 Corn Bunting, 2 red-rumped swallows and Alpine Swifts skimming over pools to drink. 2 Squacco Herons flying
Paphos light house 5:00 pm Eastern Bonelli's Warbler (pale grey different contact call to Chiffchaff) Bee-eaters flying through, f-Black-eared Wheatear - eastern race, 4 Northern Wheatears
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