Sunny, clear and quite fresh morning spent at Isola della Cona, checking the area for migrants. Finally the first passerines in the form of: 1 GARDEN WARBLER (actually a year-tick), lots of Nightingales, 3 Great Reed Warblers, 1-2 female PIED FLYCATCHERS, 2-3 Blackcaps and a very handsome WOOD WARBLER. All these birds more or less on the same tree... and in the good company of the young Melodious Warblers (from the resident pair maybe?), 2-3 juvenile Red-backed Shrikes and 3 Cetti's Warblers (showing pretty well).
Other birds included: Little Ringed Plover (heard only), lots of Wood Sandpipers, Lapwing, 4 juv. Avocets, few remaining Black-winged Stilts, 1 Green Sandpiper, 26 Little Stints, 4 Temminck's Stints, 3 juv Ringed Plovers, 2 Snipes, 2 female Garganeys, 1 Spoonbill, 3 DUNLINS (summer plumage), several eclipse Gadwalls, 2 Med Gulls (2nd winter and juv), 1 male Honey Buzzard (light morph; over the marsh), 1 Ruff, 2 Common Sandpipers, 1 Yellow Wagtail and a few Bee-eaters still hanging around. Later in the poplar wood by the river Isonzo I heard a calling LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER.
Quick stop in the Doberdob lake NR yielded some Bee-eaters perching on the wires and 2 juv. Hobbies circling in the sky.
The lovely Wood Warbler above was taken by Igor Maiorano, few years ago on the island of Pantelleria.
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