Since the weekend Mandria and the Paphos birding sites have faced an invasion
of British birders, and this had coincided with better weather which has
slowed down migration compared to last week. In a bid to escape the crowds and
freshen up my birding I decided to have a trip to Larnaca today.
The one thing that the Paphos area is missing is good wader and duck habitat
so Spiros Pool and Larnaca waste water reservoirs were an ideal antidote.
They're 130km from Mandria and a 90 minute drive, but the roads are really
good, dual carriageway almost all of the way, so it's not really a problem and
with an early start there's hardly any traffic enabling me to arrive at Spiros
Pool at 7.15am.
I didn't really go for anything in specific but there has been a red-necked
phalarope on the pool for a couple of days and it was nice to see that.
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| Photo: Marsh sandpiper. |
Also here, several marsh sandpipers, black-winged stilts and Kentish plovers,
plus a decent array of other waders including little stint, ruff and
black-tailed godwit.
Then it was onto Larnaca Waste Water reservoirs which held hundreds of ducks
including 300+ shoveler, 50+ ferruginous ducks and 70+ garganey, as well as 55+ black-necked grebes.
This Cretzshmar's bunting was in a bush at the side of the track to the hide.
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