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Cyprus Photos 2007 Here's a few photos from our trip to Cyprus in April 2007. A trip report is currently being prepared, but for now you'll have to make do with these! For some more photos from the same trip, take a look at Andy Slades photos here.
Hoopoe near the Aspro Dam.
Spur-winged Plover at Paphos Sewage Works
A Wryneck just outside pur villa.
Alpine Swift at Paphos Headland. Not the sharpest photo to start the collection!
Black-eared Wheatear at Paphos Headland. This site has changed in recent years and now attracts less birds - possibly due to the cessation in grazing. Several birders' moaned constantly at how they had been coming for years and it wasn't as good as it used to be. I just couldn't help thinking they should have gone somewhere else and shut up.
Black-headed Wagtails at Cape Drepanum. One day at least 1000 of these passed through.
This is the 'superciliaris' intergrade.
A 'drombrowskii' intergrade. Probably.
Probably a female Blue-headed.
A definate Sykes' Wagtail. Probably. Despite pretty good views, you may be able to tell that we're not completely sure what many of the 'Yellow' Wagtails were. A right old mixture of different forms.
Crested Lark - at least there was no need to bother with Thekla's. So, if we'd have found the first Thekla for Cyprus, we'd have absolutely no idea!
That's another one.
Female Cyprus Warbler. It had a nest next to our villa. Do they have Schedule 1 birds in Cyprus? Probably not, more likely to end up in some locals pie.
It's other half. This male was an absolute bug*er to photograph.
Do two rubbish photos make one good one?
A Great Spotted Cuckoo recently arrived at
Hooded Crow.
Isabelline Wheatear at Cape Drepanum.
It's a Kestrel. There's loads of them in Cyprus. They're everywhere!
Lesser Whitethroat. I need to remove the annoying stick from across its tail!
Masked Shrike at the Bath's of Aphrodites.
A duff image of an Ortolan Bunting.
A female Pied Kingfisher at Paphos Harbour.
Many flocks of Purple Heron flew over. This is just part of a flock of eleven.
A Red-rumped Swallow making sure it's all nice and tidy.
Male Redstart at Tomb of the King's that isn't really much to do with Kings.
A male Ruppell's Warbler. No, it's not perched on an invisible branch - it's mid flight. I spent ages with a very complicated set up trying to get a flight shot. Not.
A male Sardinian Warbler.
Spanish Sparrow. One species that was much commoner than my last trip all those years ago!
A more interesting shot taken by Andy with my camera, so it's mine really!
Tawny Pipit
A Wood Warbler at the Avgas Gorge. We reckon the Citrus Groves in the gorge contained over 1000 Blackcaps but not one Blackcap was photographed.
This bird was outrageously close but it had a warped sense of humour, always perching just behind a branch or right on top the bush so you could only see its belly, oh yes, it's a Woodchat Shrike but you almost certainly know that.
A Yellow-legged Gull against a sky that never gets that colour in the UK! |
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