Cyprus Birdwatching, Spiros Pools & Cape Cavo Greco (2026)

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]Yeah. So, this is where it's all happening. Spiral speech. This little bush has been crushing. So, it's rock and roll here. Well, these um Hang on.

[00:00:09]Let me I think these are a couple of Well, I'm going to get to this in a second. Ah, come on. Yeah. I think I Let's go through those quickly.

[00:00:36]Right. So, made it to the Spirals Bird Hide. Yes, a lot of you will be watching this who are familiar and going, "Oh, I've been there. I've been there." So, yeah, my first time here. And as with most bird hides, you get excited when you see it. And as you go up the steps and look out, there's nothing much there. It's literally empty apart from a few bits and pieces. just adding to my list. I mean, what's weird is I was in Malta, well, a couple of weeks ago, and I got my first ever fuguinous duck. I will say I got here and there were two pairs right there. So, okay. Waited six years to get one and then I got one within a two or 3 weeks. And malards, there's some malards over there. I mean, they're just they're just bulking up my list. And blackwing stilts dotted along this kind of rubber wall that's going on.

[00:01:22]And down below the Sardinia Warbler jumping around. I've tried to get a bit of video, but they're not sitting still very long. I can you can hear the planes taking off. I'm looking right at the airport right now, the Lanica airport.

[00:01:34]Then the only thing I went along the south coast of the quieter road, not the main road, cuz I wanted to be where there are fields so I could look in the fields. And I tell you, it's dead as a dodo. Nothing. The only thing I found, one thing I found, I don't even know how I saw it, was stone color in a field, camouflaged like crazy and filmed it from a great distance because I noticed I did try to get a bit nearer and it kind of hunkered down a bit. So, I backed off and it just about showed itself. But that's just it. But loads of rough on the other pool, the first big pool you come to. I'm trying to learn. I think they do have unique names if I get the name because they're not labeled technically on the map, but the birders have names for them, I think. So if I do, I'll put them along the bottom. But loads of rough in there and a couple of Blackwing stilts. I just got a bit of video of those because that went on the list. I hadn't seen a rough since I'd been here. And then the the a nice surprise. Great to I went not surprised cuz I've seen them here in in Cyprus already. Couple of spur wings plver came in and I managed to get my dot site on just in time to get a flight shot. That should clean up pretty nicely. And then after that it was just hunting. The the the water was just so many flies, tiny flies on the on the the surface and it was just sitting there picking them off having a nice little snack. So I just pulled up next to the the the water as I did with Lesos. They're very easy birds to pull up next to. They really don't scare easy at all. Although I don't want to push my luck and get too close. But yeah, just filmed it from the window for a little while. Really, really chill birds. Not like our lapwing. I mean, yeah. No, arguably our lap wing the northern lap wing at Elmley let you pull up. Some are a bit more friendly than others.

[00:03:19]But yeah, unfortunately, um yeah, well, we're down this end now and hopefully we'll uh we'll start adding to the the species count. Yeah, so this is where it's all happening. Spiral Beach, the eastern end further north, there's a dog beach apparently. I've seen some dogs go past these. I'll just get to it. Little turns and other birds, little stints, and they're not moving, which is great.

[00:03:40]So, they're obviously used to the dogs.

[00:03:41]I don't think the dogs give them any trouble because they didn't take off.

[00:03:45]The only thing I did see were there are a lot of spur-winged plver here, and I noticed if I drove down, the plver came out and kept an eye on me, and when the dogs went by, it flew over and hung by the dogs. Wow. Pretty pretty, you know, tough birds. But I've just added 10 new birds to the list just from being here.

[00:04:06]And a lifer, big lifer. This bird has I mean I didn't I've never gone chasing it. I thought one day it's just gonna appear right in front of me and I don't know how I knew it was what it was. A little goal. Yeah. I just it flew right past my face. Dot site. Back down gang.

[00:04:23]Absolutely razor sharp photos. Going to run those through DXO and they're going to come through absolutely phenomenally.

[00:04:30]Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. Yeah, it's really kicking off here. I mean I have to go back and forwards a little bit. Uh which way should we go? Let's go back. Let's go to the start. First thing I saw on the pool between me and the airport were a lot of goals. So I went, "Right, we're going to start kicking off here. Hopefully there'll be a few species." Immediately I saw a blackhead goal. Okay, so that's good one. And then all the other goals, pretty much all of them, even though I think I've only ever seen one before about four years ago in Pharaoh, slender bill goal. I kind of knew what they were. Dozens and dozens of them. Brilliant. So, I've got loads of video from the distance and then when one came along uh closer to the road, filmed it. Yeah. Kind of ready reddish beak. I saw a few of them with a very slight tint to the chest and the underside and I looked it up online and make sure. Yeah, I think I'm in the right department. Slender build goal.

[00:05:19]And I've heard other people talking about it on the group so I know I'm in the right place in the right uh naming area. And then these Yeah, these I I got some amazing frame filling photos of these plver jumping back of these spurwing plver there. Quite a lot of them. Yeah, in this area. I thought I had it lucky having three of them over in Aquatori. Acur Aciri. I still can't get that right. Acroi.

[00:05:43]See, I thought I had three over there and that was good. But here, rock and roll. Fill your boots as they say. And I've just got loads of photos. And then little turns. A little island of little turns.

[00:06:44]They were making a racket and I thought it might be the dogs. Uh but no, it was some sort of mating call. That was really fascinating. And I've been getting a few pictures of I'm not I'm not sure how many usable ones I've got so far, but they're going over and coming back with little fish and I'm trying to catch those. But there's a little bit of a shower. Even though the rain there's no rain predicted today, but it's gonna it's going to rain the next couple of days. That's going to be trouble. 80 90% chance. There's going to be a lot of chilling out. I'll probably do a lot of editing in the car. Wait for the rain shower to die down. Find a really good spot like this. Come back to it. Yeah. the um then I heard a call above me that another one I didn't recognize but I just I don't know instinct fired off with the dot site the finally the collared pratting cole in flight now weirdly I've got the oriental in Hong Kong only in flight so Here I got them on the ground in Acriri. I mean there are so many I mean the yeah the plvers the spowing plver from flying in the distance there. There are loads of blackwing stilts having a having baths little stints. I've looked it up because I saw what I thought was a done sandling and aceti and I thought right I must remember one of these things the stint and the little stint the the teming stint. One has black legs one has light legs. These have all got black which points towards little. So these are probably a couple of dozen little stints all pining over there running around and yeah I've seen a flock flying around and then in amongst them a couple of and they look you think the Kentish plvers are small until you see them with something like a a little stent. Yeah, the the plvers actually look quite big. The the Kentish plvers.

[00:08:44]So let's rock and roll here. Well, these um hang on, let me I think these are a couple of I'm going to get to this in a second. I think these will probably be glossy ibis. I thought they were corns.

[00:08:54]Yeah, the right. So, yeah, the two glossy ibis, which is another one. But the main thing is look at this. It was a huge flock. I don't know 30 or something and they kind of came in, landed, circled. Uh I'm just What are you just I'm just checking and my camera whatever that was I didn't focus on it right. I I don't know where my camera is. Must have been focused in the distance somewhere.

[00:09:19]Right. I've got to remember to do that.

[00:09:21]Yeah. It's like when I missed that golden oral last night, I was in video mode. I should like instinctively as soon as I'm finished whatever I'm doing, video, whatever, flick it back to photos, uh 5,000 of a second and whatever the shutter speed I need and the ISO for the conditions. I didn't do that last night with the Aurora. Every time now video, make sure it's in photo mode.

[00:09:44]for ID purposes. I think these actually I just think they're wood sandpipers.

[00:09:48]I've just seen another one. And yeah, so a big flock of glossy ibis. They've gone up twice and landed in a field over there. So awesome. I mean those numbers.

[00:09:57]Yeah, a lot of the bird reports have been coming in with 85 colored patting, 75 this 85 that. That's a black wing still. Can we have we got one for you? Yep. That's a good one. I'll put that over. Uh, what's going on here? Oh, a couple of the Right. I don't think they like the um the hooded crows. One just went over the pool and the and the the lap wings went after it. So, 30 seconds after I last spoke to you, I saw a little red blob on the pool just further ahead of the little turn and I thought, got to be a curu sandpiper, isn't it? Yeah. And yeah, pulled up next to it. 4K crop and luckily with the cloud cover, minimal heat hazard a tiny bit. My lens struggles a little bit, but that's a beautiful bird. We can see why people go crazy about curu sandpipers. Yes, the first time I got it was distant at all marshes in the UK and then I got better at levos. They were in a flock, small flock. And in this one, weirdly, it's on its own and it was hanging around with the wood sandpipers and the kish plvers.

[00:11:03]Beautiful. So, we've got a load of good footage of that.

[00:11:07]And so we go carry on round to the sewage treatment plant. And I say keep your eyes in this sort of scrubby area on the left cuz immediately I saw kind of beigish blob. It's got to be a squawker heron. I was hoping it would be a little bitten.

[00:11:21]Um but squawker heron and yeah just filmed it for several seconds. Went round. There was another one and sort of hunkered down a little bit when it first saw me. Beautiful kind of like streaky hair at the back. And I was just filming it, filming it. And I was hoping if it turns its head back to me, I'd flick to photos and get a photo of that. This the framing would be really cool. It's an unusual angle, but it didn't. What it did was it looked right. It something caught its eye and it caught it. And I I thought it was going to be, you know, something worthwhile filming a big fish.

[00:11:53]It must have been a tiny little bug or something and um maybe something that the little turns are bringing in little shrimpy things. I don't know. But it was that was all it was. And then a bit further on from there. Must just be a a holding ground for lots of egrets.

[00:12:06]Couple of little egrets caught my eye, but then two heads up. Gray herand. Uh, one flew off. I'm surprised I haven't seen any yet up until this point. Gray herand down this side of the island. The purples up the other side of the island, the west side. So yeah, they're the grey herands are about. And yeah, just hanging about. I don't know what they're doing in that area that I think that's where all those glossy ibis went in.

[00:12:30]They were going up and down all the time and I thought I'd done well with the glossy ibis about 30 some messages were coming in the WhatsApp group saying you know oh 80 and no 115 glossy ibis and I thought what is this a competition all right you win but I didn't see any of them down there I saw a couple flying but in this harsh lighting not worth it and um spun the car around and there were some barn swallows collecting nesting material on the around in this lovely red soil and filling Yeah. filling their beaks with that and let me pull up next to them. And the next step I wanted to get um coffee uh Route 66 had good reviews.

[00:13:12]So I went for that and it went past an area that I had clocked. Somebody in the WhatsApp group had said some Kandra Larks, which would be a lifer. And I have been checking the crested locks and the difference is that the kundra's got like a black ring, black neck thing going on. Black tie. Well, it's not a tie, isn't it? Because tie goes down.

[00:13:33]It's a ring. So I So I made sure to clock that. And I've been checking the few crested lark for black and not seeing it. And she put a pinpoint on.

[00:13:41]I'm not going to name any names cuz privacy, but thank you. Went to this spot and they were bang on. I found them. It was needed in a hay stack, but things moved in the field on the pinpoint she gave on Google Maps. And I got my 4K crop 2317 mm and with the minimal heat coming through the cloud cover, not bad. You know, did a couple of different angles and they kind of stood up. Um, I don't even think the crested locks crested locks were moving around feeding. So, very slight behavioral difference. Definitely.

[00:14:14]Definitely. So, that's another lifer.

[00:14:16]And that brought us I think up to like 75 I think 76 species. Uh where's my yeah Kim two phones it's yeah 75.

[00:14:26]Excellent.

[00:14:28]And yeah sorry that's another one.

[00:14:30]Common ring plver there were I mean the Kentish plver were going around all the time but I kept checking. I I knew I bet if I go back I'll see something else.

[00:14:41]But yeah little ring plver common ring plver. Other people have mentioned little. I'm sure we'll get those as well. So, we got all most of the plvers now. And then I wanted to come to the flamingo observation point that pulled above the airport and drove in expecting to see a platform, but it's not. I think it's just observed from the road and this bit of, you know, I don't know what kind of algae covered lake on the left.

[00:15:07]I was driving along looking for anything feeding around the edge. Nothing at all at the moment. I haven't had a really really really good look, but nothing going on here. Looked out there on the main lake. Couldn't see anything. And I, oh, okay, it was one of those. And as I got to about this point, it's easy to think it's a a line of salt or foam. And I'll show you from my this is roughly I can put it over the top roughly what I'm looking at and what I saw. And I thought, "Yeah, I can even from that distance, I couldn't see they were flamingos, but something visually told me they were." And there they are. Yeah.

[00:15:44]So, I just put it on the 4K crop and I panned. Yeah. And there were a few grey herands in there. That gives you an idea of scale. Those things look half the size. That's how big flamingos are. But I don't know, about 100 over there.

[00:15:58]Greater flamingo. So, that pumps us up to 76 species we're rocking. So, I was really worried this morning with the 60 species and now we're at 76. So, we jumped up 16 already because I saw somebody on Facebook say they were leaving after 11 days with 137. I went, "Oh my gosh, I've got I've got work to do." Yeah. So, I don't want to make it a competition. And I'm only here for 6 days, probably technically five and a half. So, half the time. And I've got to get Yeah.

[00:16:29]Next stop is the Oracini Lake and the two hides north and the south. Now when I first got to the southern one, I could already hear reed wobbler. So jetties. Plenty of jetties here. I haven't seen one yet.

[00:16:45]I went into the the hide. I thought I'll put it as a herd to start with. And I went into the into the hide and I mean it's it looks pretty decent the the view. There's lots of pools and lots of things going on. And straight away I couldn't really see much, but I got my camera up and scanned around and I saw a duck with some chicks. Duck ducklings chicks.

[00:17:09]And for a minute I thought, okay, is it a malard? Female malard. And I looked at him. No, it's got the kind of half marbled head. I thought, is it a marble duck? And then my brain, because I haven't seen one for probably years, is it a red crested pchard female? H. So, I looked at some images online with a little pink beak at the little tip at the end of the beak. Pretty much I'm conf Yeah, I think that's a red crested potard female with some with some chicks.

[00:17:37]And um then when I got my camera and scanned around a bit more, I noticed some color on one of these little islands and I zoomed in on it. It's definitely a rest a red crested parch female because there are the drakes, the males. Yeah, no doubt about it.

[00:17:53]And funny enough with those now I've already got it. There were a couple of feruinous duck off to the left. Well, their right and my left.

[00:18:03]So, yeah. And nothing. I mean, yeah. The only other thing was I'd managed to get a few seconds of the reed wobbler.

[00:18:18]So, yeah, just a few seconds to confirm it was what it was. But this this is a north hide. Unfortunately, there are only little Greaves and Coot. I haven't seen anything else. Even though it's got a much bigger car park and yeah, just a bigger lake. I suppose there's not many places. It'd be better if there were islands, but all I can see a little group going down and coots are fighting.

[00:18:40]Um, so yeah, I mean, I'll stay here for 20 minutes cuz it might be a surprise. A reed wobbler almost came out down there and something else might come in. I don't like to dismiss a place. I'll try and get back here for a second time during my visit here. I'm in the area for a couple of days. So, as I had another 2 hours to the night and there's nothing else going on locally, I thought I'd try the Parimony Lake at least to sort of scout it to see if it's worth coming back to. And yeah, I mean, I think I I never like dismissing a place.

[00:19:11]I probably got there a bit late in the day. It was very gray and all I saw were blackwing stilts.

[00:19:38]and a bunch of the red crested potard flew in. This this side of the island seems to be full of them. And even though it was really low light, I've I tried for some flight shots and I got a few. I mean, I've gone from having almost no red crested potard photos or video to having some and having flight shots to boot. Yeah, low light. I'm going to have to run those through DXO for sure. Somebody did see Great Spot Cuckoo there. Didn't see it. And they photographed Little Turns. I saw Little Turns on the North side of the lake. The north side doesn't have a tower like the the south side had had the big uh metal tower if you've been here before. And a really good lookout point. Yeah. I mean, I think if you stay there long enough, you'll get things flying by. But the north side viewpoints are just along sort of tracks around the back of houses. And there are things like um there were I think what was it coot chicks lots of coots. It was like there were no coups I think one coupe on the east side of the well not the east the acra acia side and then all of a sudden there are loads over here. Yeah, small our islands can vary like that. But loads of chicks and yeah, I was hoping for a little bit bitten or squawk heron.

[00:20:50]No. And went back to the flamingo viewpoint just before well literally the sun had gone and the the flamingos were slightly closer and I didn't have to go up to too high an ISO seeen as they are quite bright birds. So I got some bit more frame filling, less heat hazy stuff. But I did the usual thing. I I just panned all the way across from the roadside and got pretty close. So yeah, that those are really pretty. I mean, I suppose it depends what day you show up. You could show up and they could be all the way out like they were in the beginning of the day or they could be right up close to the roadside for some great shots, but other than that, I I thought it was a chaff moving around in a bush. And after I'd cleaned it up through DxO, I thought the ice stripe looked very sort of, you know, prominent. So, and I zoomed in on the leg. Apparently, the chiff chaff legs, like I said, are black and the willow wobbler are more pinky. They can overlap. People say they overlap. Fair enough. You know, I'm not going to get into those, but it looks like a willow warbler and it was 16,000 ISO and I cleaned it up through the DxO.

[00:21:57]Looks pretty good. So, that ended the Yeah, the session and I'm quite happy with that. Overall, a good day. I think I bumped up by 20 odd species. Right, we have done Cape Greco. It is actually really tiny. It looks tiny on the map, but scale is hard uh to get unless you zoom out, which I'm doing now. Yeah, it's a little blip right at the end of the island. So, you can't go out to the lighthouse. Somebody told me that. Yeah, it's got a fence over it. Yeah, small area. First thing came in uh just before it sort of gets to the the main bit of the island. the all these kind of wheat fields and reeds and step I believe ST PPE very good for birds. I could see straight away I went this is going to be a good place. Woodat Shrike I think a juvenile based on how kind of calm it was around me and sort of not the thick full colors or maybe it's coming into its fullon adult plumage but something tells me juvenile looked like a bit a bit of down fluffy feather in there. So that's a good start because that that takes me up to 79.

[00:23:05]Carried on down. Then another chakra.

[00:23:08]Awesome. I thought it was going to be it looked like a big bird. It was up on the the step the the hill and I thought it was going to be my first some sort of raptor eagle. Eagle in terms big big eagle like a benellis which is being spotted. But no chakra. So I got chakra again and uh what was it? Yeah. got down to lighthouse, did a U-turn, lots of Sardinian warbl and then I saw a 4x4 parked up and I thought hm suspicious. So I pulled in and I was going to go walk down to the water and got all my stuff on and as I went heard somebody shout taxi.

[00:23:52]So I can't even escape here. I wasn't even wearing my my visor which is kind of the giveaway. It's me. And I don't think he knew I was here. Does he know I'm here? Cuz he what? He follows me on my socials. I don't want to name names cuz I don't mean obviously privacy. I don't know who does who does and doesn't want to be named. So yeah, apologize for that. But the male wind uh woodchhat strike definitely there must be two because this is a full-on this is a full-on male. I believe it's male adult.

[00:24:22]Anyway, woodchhat strike. So very very good for wood strike here. It's obviously very showy, so there could be more stuff here. And um I think that's a just another Kez. Let's have a look.

[00:24:37]Oh, it's got a Can we? I don't think we can get that.

[00:24:41]Uh it's already gone down. It looked like it had a tail in its beak. So, probably a little lizard.

[00:24:49]Um, I'll have a look and then I'll cut if I'm if I take too long to find it.

[00:24:54]I'll uh Did it go down on those rocks?

[00:24:58]No, I don't see anything too obvious, but but nice touch. I thought, would this be the Elonorus Falcon closeup?

[00:25:07]Eurasian Hobby. Very, very similar.

[00:25:09]Probably from the back. Very similar, but the Eurasian Hobbies probably got more white on the face and lighter on the the chest. It's got the same sort of rusty underside vent area. Remember that from my bird video where I describe all the the field marks. I've got to do an update of that one cuz I got the eye stripe wrong and the is it the superilium? Yeah, cuz they're two different things. I think the superilium is the eyebrow and the eye stripe is the eye stripe. Right, so we're back at Spyros. Yeah, this this is the best place. I keep seeing people coming here and saying something else arrived and something else arrived and I'm driving around further east and finding nothing. Yes, it's only just stopped raining about half an hour ago.

[00:25:54]It was a complete wash out after I last spoke to you. But in terms of number of birds, it's you're literally you're driving around the east just looking for the odd bird that's unusual here. Come here and you will feel your boots. This is the place to come. And it's it's at 4:00. I got here maybe about 3:00 2:33 and I've just been filling my boots as soon as I arrived. I have to get into this.

[00:26:19]Um I briefly saw it on the WhatsApp group, but whitewing turn. Now, what's better than getting a lifer? Getting 25 of the same bird species as lifers all on the one mound. Just brilliant. I had to I had to actually look it up because I saw somebody mention it was a white wing turn like one or two but I had to look it up because it was black with white wings and I know there's there's all these random ones like whitewing turns uh blackwinged white turn and black turn and all these variations. So I don't know if it was a black turn white wing whitewing black turn or whatever. So, they're whitewing turns apparently.

[00:27:01]25 of them about hanging with the little turns.

[00:27:06]Uh, brilliant. So, I just filled my boots. I got I tried for loads of photos with the wings up, but really black and white birds are really hard to photograph. Yeah. So, there's going to be a lot of work putting those through DxO to keep the whites down and to bring up the shadows, but some of those are really crisp. They'll come out nice. I can't even see the eye through the viewfinder. That that bit is so dark.

[00:27:28]Yeah. I mean there were there were times when they were going up. They were being chased by these spur-winged plver which is one is in a road now. I'm sick of seeing them now. There are dozens and hundreds probably. They're just everywhere. And they came in and chased everything off. So they're really aggressive these plvers. Yeah. They just chase everything. All the birds went up and it the plver sat on the island for ages and yet the turns just circled until it went away and they came back.

[00:27:54]Brilliant. And then it Oh, hang on.

[00:27:57]What's all that? Sorry.

[00:28:01]Sorry. There was a big flock of I reckon they're going to be rough or something like that. Yeah, the sky has really improved now. And yeah, there were little stints in there.

[00:28:12]Yeah, they came really close this time.

[00:28:14]And yeah, the weather has this is beautiful. This is absolutely perfect. I couldn't have asked for anything more.

[00:28:19]We got lovely overcast conditions for filming and photos. I can stay at about 4 to 5,000 ISO. Not too bad. And the other ones were the Kentish plver. Now, somebody has been mentioning these things called greater sand plvers. And in my m in my mind, I'm thinking, uh, what would that look like? Like a maybe a a gray plver or an American plver. I don't know. But then I looked and it looks very much like the Kentish plver.

[00:28:48]But the the air is absolutely filled with swifts and hurdines. Well, particularly swifts where the cast um the slenderbuild goals were yesterday.

[00:29:00]The whole all of the water was just filled with all those swifts coming in.

[00:29:04]But um it was it was raining for ages and I just the wind was blowing from west to east. So I parked myself opposite so the wind just blasted the car and I just worked on the turns and anything that landed in the water here and I saw I I thought did I see yesterday a Did I see yesterday? That's terrible English. Did I Did I see a common sandpiper yesterday or was it just another wood? No, that is definitely a common sandpiper. I saw it as I drove in. And then I managed to eventually get some video of it pining just for confirmation that it was another type of sand pl another type of sand piper, not sand plver.

[00:29:45]Yeah. And right this I think we get to this point now. These trees over here, this little bush has been crushing. Yes.

[00:29:57]Lots of little dots moving around. And first of all, we've got I mean there's some sparrows in there, but spotted spotted fly catcher. They've been constantly flitting in and out catching stuff. And as I was, you know, checking out, is that definitely a because there was lots of birds. I could see movement in the silhouette. Checked one on the right. Greater white throat, common white throat. Another species.

[00:30:22]Excellent. So that's And I think there might be juveniles in there and some other something. I think Yeah. Um, there's one, this one, I'll show you it.

[00:30:29]I've just asked the WhatsApp group because I cannot ID it. There's no way is this a Sardinian warbler female. And the cypress warbler has got black on the chest, so it can't be that. So, I'm baffled. It's got an like a white eye ring. H, I hope it's not something really embarrassing. I think I just saw my little WhatsApp message come up there. So, I'm going to be looking after I speak to you, and I really hope I've not embarrassed my myself on the group.

[00:30:53]But, I was really really stumped on that one. And the other one was I'm sure I've only briefly seen this once before in an orca. There was a bit of debate what it was is an ictine wobbler. It definitely wasn't a reed warbler cuz it was too yellow and it had the wrong kind of beak or color to be a reed wobbler. And Merlin, not confirmed because we never say confirmed as an ictine. So we've had um so the list is uh where are we now?

[00:31:22]So I've added Oh, and I saw wood wobbler. Yeah, I got some video of that.

[00:31:26]Did I get video? I think. Yeah, I got a bit of video pining. Definitely a wood war. White belly and very yellow. But this is just my I don't know how to explain it. It's the sky is just full of herandines and swifts just shattering away. And I've been here. I just start throwing over photos playing. The wind is blowing that way.

[00:31:47]So, they're getting caught in it, which means I can catch them. It is just bliss.

[00:31:54]And yeah, they're just like some of them. I thought they're gonna fly into my face sometimes. It's Yeah. And every so often we've got sand martins and house martins coming in. I'm trying to get those and I can see them, but they don't come as often or as close as the the swifts. And the swifts are bigger, so I can I can zoom back a bit more with the lens. But with the the Martins, I have to zoom in.

[00:32:17]And it's they're still not they're so small. They're still not filling the frame. But I think I'll find this one now. There was one I caught at sand marting. It looks I think it scratched his face. But I caught it mid-scratch.

[00:32:28]It looks like it's saying hi to me.

[00:32:29]Really adorable. But yeah, this I mean look at it. I you can't I can't explain it. It's just Yeah, sometimes there's like a big fogg like this where there's about 100 in the sky and then it sort of disappears for about 2 minutes and then it's all over the place and it's the the the the little bubbling chatter is are the house martins and the sand martins.

[00:32:49]So they alert me. Right, here we go. 2 4 6 8 10 12 They're probably if they've got an orange beak. They're catalyt.

[00:32:56]There has been word of cattle, right?

[00:32:59]Can you turn for me, please? I did have a couple of squawk heron earlier and Oh, no. Those are little egret. They've got black. Uh can we film that for you in real time? They're really really white.

[00:33:14]Two, four.

[00:33:17]There's about 10.

[00:33:22]Nice against the storm cloud.

[00:33:26]That's it. I can't hold it still anymore. So, I wait until any of these come right. So, in that tree, I'm sure that's a female common red start. Yeah, I'm I'm It's some sort of Yeah, cuz the tail was flicking and people think it's they say red because of the the color.

[00:33:40]It's not. Apparently, the start is something to do with the tail.

[00:33:45]Um so yeah in that bush what we had we had so this one yeah sardinian wobbler if it's confirmed ectarine warbler pi fly catcher spotted fly catcher common red start wood warbler and then in yeah the ectarine down in the reads and have I missed it a white throw a common white throw that was a mental right we got we have had glossy ibis I better put some of these over some flight shots there's a they've been going uh left to right to left coming in and out in droves And I have been getting Yeah, I've one I cut the tip of the wing off because I was too zoomed in. But I'll crop in.

[00:34:22]I'll cut the other bit of wing out. And it means you can see the bird closer. It gets more more detail. That's the excuse I use cuz yeah, that's the problem with birds with big wings. You've actually technically got to lose a lot of the detail of the body to get the wings in when you really It' be nice to zoom right in on the face and the body while it flying right there. Yeah, another one took off lossy Ibis, but it flew that way. So there there'll be too much heat haze between, but yeah, initially I was down the road filming them and taking photos and I thought get up here so that you are between the sun. So remember this folks, have the birds. I was over there initially, but I need the sun that way and it's perfect because the wind is blowing that way, which is slowing all of these swifts and horendines. I'm looking up. Yeah, it's like flies in the sky and Oh yeah. Um, I was on the phone to my wife and and telling her that she was interested. I always say, "Sorry, honey, if this bore you," telling her all the species and I was saying, "Yeah, there was this lovely red bird, this curu sandpiper last night." And as I said it, I could see two in the water.

[00:35:25]So, there you go. There's the video while I just Yeah, carry on and watch for any of these guys that come closer.

[00:35:33]Um, but yeah, that's the dream, isn't it? those colored cuz sometimes you get the you the ones with not so much color on. When I was in Lesos, I remember there was about maybe eight or 10 in the pond and they were all different colors.

[00:35:46]The other things that are going by are lots of rough. There are so many rough here.

[00:35:53]And you got the blackwing stilts always fighting with lots of other plvers and the glossy ibis. And yeah, everything's battling with wood sandpipers.

[00:36:06]Yeah, we're just we've been here since the what 2 2:00 or whatever and we're just going to stay here. You're not going to get This is arguably the best spot on the whole of Cyprus, the Spyros Pools. Yeah. And you think anything that's the Middle East and Africa and that's like anything is going to stop by here this spot because of this water.

[00:36:28]There's none of this water further along towards like Point Greco.