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Post Info TOPIC: Rhodes 21/09 - 04/10/24


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Rhodes 21/09 - 04/10/24
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2 weeks in Rhodes town Greece produced the following. All seen without any real effort

  • Scopoli's shearwater - up to 4 seen offshore in the first week most days
  • little egret - just a single
  • common sandpiper - 1
  • yellow-legged gull - common
  • Bonellli's eagle - 1
  • buzzard - 1 - 4 seen over several days
  • sparrowhawk - males seen on 3 dates
  • peregrine - 1
  • hobby - 1
  • swift - 11 over the town at dusk on 28/09
  • kingfisher - 1
  • yellow wagtail - flocks of 5 & 9
  • white wagtail - 2
  • feral pigeon - common
  • swallow - several passing through, including a flock of c20
  • crag martin - fairly common
  • chiffchaff - 1
  • Sardinian warbler - several heard
  • spotted flycatcher - c5
  • hooded crow - very common
  • raven - 1
  • house sparrow - very common

butterflies 

  • swallowtail - common
  • scarce swallowtail - fairly common
  • monarch - 1s & 2s at first, but became quite numerous before we left
  • painted lady - 4
  • small white - common
  • large white - scarce
  • Lang's short-tailed blue - very common
  • millet skipper - 1
  • mallow skipper - 1

moths

  • hummingbird hawkmoth - 2
  • crimson speckled (footman) - c6, appeared to be just emerging before we left, either that or I had only just started noticing them after Maxine pointed 11 out to me

dragonflies

  • red-veined darter - very common, despite a distinct lack of standing water

lizards 

  • pelasgian rock lizard - common
  • starred agama (aka roughtail rock agama) - fairly common

fish

not much of a fish fan, but several common garfish in the harbour were new to me

cheers Kevin



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