A week trip to the beautiful Greek island of Kefalonia. As I already knew, not a bird hot spot so very few species seen. However, plenty of butterflies, but with temperatures rising to 40C it was not always possible to be out to photo them.
Bird wise: kestrel, Eleanora's falcon, yellow legged gull, wood pigeon, collared dove, turtle dove, swift, hoopoe, greater short toed lark, crag martin, swallow, red rumped swallow, house martin, wren, robin, blackbird, whitethroat, olivaceous warbler, (ssp
elaeica), chiffchaff, woodchat shrike, jay, hooded crow, starling, house sparrow, chaffinch, goldfinch, greenfinch.
On the butterfly front: cleopatra, southern white admiral, scarce swallowtail, wall brown + plenty of fast flying whites, probably southern small whites and several small brown jobs that refused to settle whilst I watched them.
Moth; a stunningly large surreptitious palm borer on the bonnet of a chevrolet. Just been informed only 2 records exist for the whole of Greece. Strange, as I saw 3 in 2 days, all at different locations, but I suspect, Kefalonia remains somewhat under recroded for moths.
Mammals; goats!! not even a donkey
Reptiles; an Ionian wall lizard
Not a great haul, but then this was a none nature holiday and I only saw what was about as we wandered short distances in high temperatures. Wonderful break and some glorious scenery. Oh, and thousands of cicadas.
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| Podarcis tauricus ionicus, Ionian Wall Lizard |
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| Podarcis tauricus ionicus, Ionian Wall Lizard |
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| Surreptitious palm borer |
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| southern white admiral |
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| cicada |
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| swallow |
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| wall brown |
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| woodchat shrike |
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| Myrtos beach, 1000 feet below |
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| To the beach |
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| Assos |
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| Fiscardo |
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| Drogorati caves |
1 comment:
Thanks Jono! You've helped me identify the moths I spotted in the Saronics in June 2014 - I had photographed these two beauties, but couldn't find anything about them until I found your photos on flickr indentifying them as Surreptitious Palm Moths. Shame that the information I'm generally finding now shows them to be pests, but they are truly beautiful.
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