This isn't much of a report, just a list really but what's the point me typing it out if no-one reads it - so I thought I may as well post it here.
I didn't have any target species or much knowledge of sites I would vist. I just travelled about and looked at birds and tried to ID them all correctly.
Anyway... here it is, it was 5 years ago and I'm afraid I did not write it all up properly so please forgive me.
James
13 May (Marmaris, Turkey)
Cetti’s Warbler
Nightingale
15 May (Dalyan)
6 White Storks (from bus in)
Great White Egret
27 Little Egrets
Roller
Jays (middle eastern race)
m. feldegg Yellow Wagtail
Also, wild tortoise, and, Turtle noted in river at Dalyan. (Loggerhead are known there.)
16 May (Oludeniz)
Squacco Heron
Nightjar (heard)
17 May Oludeniz – Olympos
(from bus)
20 White Storks at nest site (near Dalyan)
Alpine Swifts
18 May Olimpos
2 Masked Shrikes
Middle Spotted Woodpecker
4 Cirl Bunting
1m. 1 f. Ruppells Warbler
1 Krupers Nuthatch
3 Rollers
2 LRPs
f. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Woodchats
approx 10 Alpine Swifts
Scops Owl (heard)
Tawny Owl
21 May Egirdir
4m. 2f. Red Backed Shrikes
7 Masked Shrikes
4 Black Headed Buntings
3-4 Cretzchmars Bunting
8 White Throated Robins (3 f.)
3-5 Rock Nuthatches
1 Long Legged Buzzard
3-4 Ruppells Warbler
1 Peregrine
approx 15 Rose Coloured Starlings
2 Lesser Whitethroats
2 m. Cirl Buntings
2 Crag Martins
2-3 Blue Rock Thrush
Linnets
2 Nuthatch
Corn Bunting
Yellowhammer
22 May Ankara
(from bus in)
8 White Storks
1 Hoopoe
Calandra Lark
Buzzard
Kestrel
Shrikes
23 May Ankara
2 Olivaceous Warblers
Golden Oriole (heard)
25 May Goreme
1 Hoopoe
2-3 Lesser Grey Shrikes
3 m. Golden Oriole
3 Rock Sparrows
1 Cretzchmars Bunting (on a chimney)
4 Bimaculated Larks
2 m. Rock Thrush
2 Rock Buntings
2-3 Ortolons
4 Short Toed Larks
2 Rock Nuthatch
2 Isabelline Wheatears
5 Alpine Swifts
2 Bee Eaters
2 Serins
1 Long Legged Buzzard
1 Whitethroat
1 Lesser Whitethroat
Tree Sparrows (noted as being abundant)
1 Cetti’s Warbler
2 Nightingales
1 Little Owl
26 May Goreme
Nightingales
1 Cetti’s Warbler
2 Golden Oriole
1 Lesser Grey Shrike
27 May Sultan Marshes
3 Gull Billed Terns (flight)
4 Short Toed Larks
10 Isabelline Wheatears
1-2 Calandra Lark
1 Bimaculated Lark
Crested Larks
50 + White Storks
50 + Squacco Herons
2 Cattle Egrets
Little Egrets (1 with red legs!?)
2 Great White Egrets (flight)
3 m. Red Crested Pochards
4 Collared Pratincoles
approx 10 Marsh Harriers
f. Red Backed Shrike
an unidentified large falcon
1 Bittern (flight)
1 Black Stork (high)
3+ Pygmy Cormorants
2 Little Owl
Scops Owl (heard and then seen as it nearly flew right into me!)
Tawny Owl (heard)
28 May
Sultan Marshes (punt ride amongst reeds and waterways)
5 Savi’s Warbler (saw 2)
3 Little Bitterns
1 Pygmy Cormorant
15 White Headed Duck
3 Garganey (2 m.)
Red Crested Pochards
1 Spur Winged Plover
1 m. 1 f. Ferruginous Duck
approx 100 Great Reed Warblers
1-2 Moustached Warblers
Squacco Herons
Little Egrets
1 Cattle Egret
2 f. Bearded Tit
1-2 Purple Herons
(also in the area)
White Storks
2 Hoopoes
Little Owl
f. Red Backed Shrike
Isabelline Wheatears (number not noted)
Calandra Lark
Bimaculated Lark
2 Lesser Short Toed Larks
3 Night Herons
Golden Oriole
Nightingale
29 May Goksu Delta
3-5 Marbled Teals
3+ Black Winged Stilts
3 Little Egrets
3 Marsh Harriers
1 Purple Heron
5 Spur Winged Plover
1 Peregrine
approx 20 Kentish Plovers (in group)
Crested Larks
Olivaceous Warblers
approx 15 Graceful Prinea
50+ Little Stints
2 Ruddy Shelducks
1 “caspius” Purple Swamphen
2 Black Francolins (others heard)
30 May
(Mahlassah, close to Goksu)
Olivaceous Warbler (alarm clock bird – grrr)
2 Black Francolins (heard)
2 Bulbuls (Spectacled?)
31 May and 1 June Aleppo, Syria
Laughing Doves
Swifts (Pallid and Common)
2 June (Qa al Salaam)
1-2 m. Menetries Warbler
2 Finsch’s Wheatear
4-5 Spectacled Bulbuls
3 June Dayr ez zar
Hoopoe
Black Winged Stilts
Little Swift
Swift
House Martins
Great White Egret
4 June (Palmyra)
1 Mourning Wheatear
m. Lesser Kestrel
8 June Petra, Jordan
Mourning Wheatear
f. Palestine Sunbird
4 Sinai Rosefinch (1 f.)
Spectacled Bulbuls
1 m. Tristam Starling
Desert Lark
5+ Fan Tailed Ravens
Rock Martins (numerous)
9 June (Wadi Rum)
approx 20 Tristams Starling
1 White Crowned Wheatear
5+ Dunn’s Lark
Desert/Bar Tailed Larks
10 June (Eilat)
(from cab to Eilat)
1 Hoopoe Lark
(Eilat)
2-3 Little Green Bee Eater
1 Rufous Bush Chat
1 White Eyed Gull
1 House Crow
6 Sooty Gull
10 Caspian Terns
possible 1 White Cheeked Tern
Common Terns
Spur Winged Plovers
Graceful Prineas
1 Hobby
1 Kingfisher (only one of entire trip)
11 June Eilat
(reserve)
1 Spoonbill
1 juv. White Pelican (feral?)
Black Winged Stilts
Spectacled Bulbuls
Graceful Prineas
13 June Mitzpe Ramon
1White Crowned Wheatear (from bus in)
Brown Necked Ravens
3 Hoopoes
Rock Martins
Desert Larks
Mourning Wheatear
White Crowned Wheatear
14 June Ein Avat
2 Rock Partridges
3-4 Rufous Bush Chats
4 Blackstarts
3 Griffon Vultures
1 Bonellis Eagle
Unidentified eagles
a probable Red Rumped Warbler
Rock Martins
Hoopoe
f. Blackcap
Olivaceous Warbler
1 Trumpeter Finch
f. Palestine Sunbird
Spectacled Bulbuls
Desert Larks
Crested Larks
Alpine Swift
15 June Ein Gedi
1 Little Green Bee Eater
1 m. Palestine Sunbird
5 Arabian Babblers
Tristams Starlings (numerous)
Blackstarts
approx 60 Fan Tailed Ravens
16 June Ein Gedi
100s Tristam Starlings
3 Arabian Babblers
Spectacled Bulbuls
Fan Tailed Ravens
4 Palestine Sunbirds (1 m.) (1 f. in her hanging nest)
Sand Partridge with 5 chicks
Barbary Falcon(?)