No trip to Paphos is complete without a visit to the sewage works, and once
again this morning it didn't let me down with at least 30 spur-winged plover
including some displaying, also bluethroat and red-throated pipits. Elaine
stayed in bed.......
I had excellent views of these birds in the fields near the sewage works, and
as long as I stayed in the car they would approach quite close. Lots of other
birds too, including pipits, larks and corn buntings, plus zitting cisticola,
bluethroat, serins and chiffchaffs. From the calls the chiffchaffs were either
spp. colybitta / abietinus "huweet" or
brevirostris "peep". At the sewage works I would say it was split
50/50, but everywhere else I went today I only heard "peep".
I think you can see the spur on the wing in this photo.
A couple of birds decided it was time to display and dropped their wings to
show everybody their spurs.
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