Lesvos 27th April

 

Lesser Kestrel

Little Crake

Squacco Heron

Wood Sandpiper

Masked Shrike

Red-footed Falcon

Golden Orioles

Eastern Orphean Warbler

Eastern Orphean Warbler

Purple Herons

Purple Herons

Bee-eaters

Peregrine with Wood Sandpiper

Purple Heron

Whinchat

Purple Heron

A great find by Paul Trodd of two Purple Herons at the Long Pits today. It took me a while to see one of the two well enough for some photos and then I had my camera settings totally wrong. 80th sec at 100ISO at F13!!! How does that happen?! Thank goodness for Topaz sharpening software. Anyway, I did manage to see one of the Purple Herons on the deck albeit for a moment and then some nice flight views in great afternoon light. 

Purple Heron

Purple Heron

Purple Heron

Purple Heron

The long staying female Long-tailed Duck remains on Burrowes but always distant, generally associating with Tufted Ducks.

Long-tailed Duck

Long-tailed Duck