Two flocks of 220 and 60 White Storks were the highlight of the waterbird count around Larnaca this morning. Numbers of Black-winged Stilts on Meneou Pool are slowly dropping as they start to leave (see photo of a juvenile there).

Interesting sightings included:

Meneou Pool

Black-winged Stilt 133

Common Ringed Plover 10 (incl six that flew out to sea)

Kentish Plover 3

Little Stint 111

Ruff 20

Grey Heron 6

Greater Flamingo 4 (1 juv)

Glossy Ibis 1

Common Sandpiper 10

Green Sandpiper 6

Little Ringed Plover 4

Western Yellow Wagtail 1h

Slender-billed Gull 2

Black-headed Gull 1

Temminck’s Stint 1

Curlew Sandpiper 2 (1 ad and 1 juv)

Little Egret 2

Larnaca Airport Pools South

White Stork 218 roosting at 08:15.

Spur-winged Lapwing 1

Larnaca Sewage Works

Spur-winged Lapwing 33

Mallard 236

Great Cormorant 1

Ruff 9

Common Coot 4

Grey Heron 4

Greater Flamingo 1 juv

Common Sandpiper 2

Common Shelduck 1

Larnaca Salt Lake

Greater Flamingo 3 juvs

Masked Shrike 2 juv

Red-backed Shrike 1 m

White Stork c60 gaining height and moving SE N of Tekke Mosque at 10:15

Cattle Egret 7

Spur-winged Lapwing 11

Little Egret 9

Wood Sandpiper 1

Common Kingfisher 1