Southern Cyprus April 2018

My birding holiday buddy, Greg Adams, and I spent 5 days in Southern Cyprus in early April (11 - 16). We flew from Bristol to Paphos, picked up our hire car and proceeded to our apartment in Pissouri Bay. Pissouri Bay is well placed to get to many of the South's birding spots - such as Akrotiri area, Paphos Sewage works, Mandria and the mountains - all of which we crammed into our short trip.

We were out early every day and had a great time - we found over 100 species with a few lifers amongst them. I am off to Northern Cyprus in late August - can't wait

Here are some of the birding highlights:

Bee Eater

Black Headed Bunting

Collared Flycatcher

Cyprus Warbler

Cyprus Wheatear

Glossy Ibis

Pallid Harrier

Purple Heron

Red Backed Shrike - juv

Squacco

Spur Winged Plover

Wheatear

A few recent beasties.....

I went down to the reserve with my mate last weekend - he wanted to try out his Fuji mirrorless kit. He was using a Fuji X-Pro2 with an F2.8 80mm and he just bought the Fuji X-H1; can't wait to see the results of that. I think mirrorless is the way ahead!

Here are some of the results.

Large Skipper

Ringlet

Red Admiral



Black Tailed Skimmer - very mature female

Beautiful Damsel

Red Admiral

July High Flyer

Black Tailed Skimmer - male

Green Veined White

Emperor - female

Common Blue

Common Darter - teneral