Well that's it. The holiday was over and I was heading to the airport to hand back the hire car. I'd had a good day, I st...

It's only as recently as last December that I first "discovered" Agia Varvara and even then although I was aware th...

I decided to spend most of my last full day in Cyprus at Kourion stadium near Episokpi. It's just a wonderful place, especial...

Eight days after we left Cyprus last December, a desert finch was found on Paphos headland. I was disappointed to have missed it,...

No birding holiday to Cyprus is complete without a trip to the Troodos mountains to see a few of the islands endemic subspecies, ...

Flycatchers are beginning to arrive now, with collared, semicollared and pied all reported of the past 48 hours. Ironically the two I h...

I found another three pools at Agia Varvara that I didn't even know existed prior to today. They held a similar array of bir...

I'd all but given up with masked shrike, there's been a few around but I just couldn't seem to connect with them. Tod...

At Bishops Pool today there was a wonderful semicollared flycatcher which was a new bird for me. Also here, lots of eastern Bonelli...

Since the weekend Mandria and the Paphos birding sites have faced an invasion of British birders, and this had coincided with be...

I called in again at Agia Varvara this afternoon and at least one little crake showed well again, so well in fact that I was able...