ZAKYNTHOS

A brief week away with Mr Cook in Zakynthos,the weather was warm and sunny but breezy,we survived but Mr Cook unfortunately passed away on our last night.Fortunately we got back unscathed more or less on schedule,others were not so lucky.
Zakynthos was not great for birds highlights being a small flock of Alpine Swifts and a few Red Rumped Swallows passing through one morning.

 MYTHOS -the beer of choice.

 BRIGHT AND BREEZY

 GREEK FISHING VESSEL

 ACROSS TO THE MAINLAND FROM ALYKES

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 SUNDOWN ALYKES

 SWALLOWTAIL

 SWALLOWTAIL
To see a bit more of the island we hired a car for two days and saw most it from north to south and east to west, a few villages and a couple of monasteries were visited on the way.

 KILIOMENOS BELL TOWER

 FREYERS GRAYLING

 BIG BLACK BEE

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 FAROS- CAPE SKINARI ON THE NORTHERN TIP.

IN A MONASTERY GARDEN -

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 -GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH

 -MOST OF THE ISLAND IS COVERED WITH PINE TREES WHICH ARE VULNERABLE TO FIRES,

 -MONASTERY OF ST DIONYSIOS

 COMMON BUZZARD

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 ALIKANAS the next village to Alykes

 MEADOW BROWN

 MB

 GREEK SALAD

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 ZAKYNTHOS TOWN was destroyed by the 1953 earthquake.

AGIOS DIONYSIOS CHURCH

 MARE DE LEVANTE arriving in port.

 RED RUMPED SWALLOW

 MARBLED SKIPPER

 LONG TAILED BLUE

 LONG TAILED BLUE

MEDITERRANEAN SKIPPER

 

FAREWELL TO DANNYS- RIP THOMAS COOK.

SEPTEMBER SONG

HERES A FEW PICS FOR THE MONTH SO FAR.

 VIKING SUN arriving at the cruise terminal.

 WHINCHAT posing nicely in Langdon Hole.

 WHINCHAT

ADONIS BLUE Lower Tramway Langdon Cliffs.

 WHEATEAR a pale youngster at Samphire Hoe.

 SEEKER on patrol

 SEEKER

 BLACK REDSTART they have bred successfully again at the Hoe.

 BLACK REDSTART was this bird ringed by EK Ringing group?

 DUTCH SUBMARINE PASSING THE VARNE

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 WHEATEAR near the Polish War Memorial Dungeness.

 STOAT

 STOAT

 COMPARE THE MEERKAT

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 GARGANEY

 -female feeding outside the Hanson Hide ARC pit.

 -the white patches at the base of the bill are diagnostic.

 CATTLE EGRETs also from the Hanson Hide.

 CE

CE

 BAR TAILED GODWIT

 -on the mud at Oare.

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BTG

 BLACKCAP

Langdon Hole.

 JACKDAW

 ADONIS

 ADONIS FEMALE

ADONIS FEMALE.

 OPTIMIST Leaving on a channel swim last Tuesday one of six leaving at 7 am,I followed their progress through the day and this one made it in 12 hours 40 minutes  to Cap Gris Nez.

ANOTHER WHEATEAR AT THE HOE.

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 SEEKER Still searching for migrants.

 SMALL COPPER

 LARGE WHITE

 ADONIS

LARGE WHITE

COMMON REDSTART at Dungeness.

 MIGRANT HAWKER

COSTA PACIFICA ..

 SPITFIRE OVER THE CLIFFS

 HORNET ROBBERFLY

I didn`t go to St Ives to see the Brown Booby so here is a Blue Tit instead, bye for now.