Showing posts with label Red-rumped Swallow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red-rumped Swallow. Show all posts

2009 August 20th, Turunç

A Wheatear by the roadside before the village Dereözü and also a Blackbird, two Jays by the roadside after that village on the way back to Turunç. A Red-rumped Swallow and two Great Tits in Turunç.

2009 June 22nd, Turunç

Two Blackbirds, two Red-rumped Swallows, Barn Swallows and House Martins, and four Jays seen on the north today. Two of the Jays were juveniles and one of them was a cannibal. It was eating a newborn bird. I heard the song of a Rock Nuthatch in the west forest where there is a rocky hill and water house this afternnon and the call of a Scops Owl in the same forest at about 21:00.

2009 May 7th, Turunç

Birds seen today: an Alpine Swift, a Red-rumped Swallow, Barn Swallows, House Martins, House Sparrows, Collared Doves.

Birds heard today: a Blackbird (sang afternoon), a Scops Owl from the west forest, a Tawny Owl from the north forest.

2009 May 6th, Turunç

First I heard the call of a Raven over the north rocky hills. Then I saw it while it was flying to the northwest by jarring and then it flew to the south. The other birds seen today: a White Wagtail, two Jays, a Red-rumped Swallow, a Blackbird, House Martins, Barn Swallows, House Sparrows and Collared Doves.

2009 May 1st, Turunç

Thirteen Bee-eaters flew off from northwest to the north and at the same time a Raven jarred over the north rocky hills at around 14:00. I heard the call of a Scops Owl near the hotel at 20.00. Other birds seen in Turunç today: a Blackbird, a Great Tit, a Red-rumped Swallow, an Alpine Swift, Barn Swallows, House Martins, House Sparrows and Collared Doves.

2009 April 28th, Turunç

A Bee-eater seen at the same location as same as on 26th April, a Red-rumped Swallow, Barn Swallows and House Martins (one alighted on the top chimney of the hotel, looked around for a while and then flew off) , House Sparrows and Collared Doves, a Great Tit and a Blackbird seen today, and a Scops Owl heard on the west forest in the evening.

2009 April 25th, Turunç

Two Alpine Swifts, two Red-rumped Swallows, House Martins and Barn Swallows seen over the hotel today. Barn Swallows have perched on wires near the hotel.

2009 April 23rd, Turunç

A Blackbird, a Red-rumped Swallow, over fourty Alpine Swifts flew to the east over sea at noon, heard the call of a Bee-eater on the south but I could not spot it, heard the song of two Scops Owls at the same moment on the west forest area at 21:00, Barn Swallows and House Martins, House Sparrows and Collared Doves.

2009 April 21st, Turunç

A Raven jarred in flight from north to the west forest. Twelve Bee-eaters seen on the southwest and six more after them, they flew to the north at noon, nearly twenty minutes later about thirthy or fourty of them appeared in chorus over the west forest, they flew back and forth untill the sunset over Turunç. A Scops Owl's call heard at noon. A Blackbird, A Red-rumped Swallow, Barn Swallows and House Martins, a Great Tit, a White Wagtail, House Sparrows and Collared Doves.

2009 April 20th, Turunç

Nineteen Bee-eaters seen over the west forest and they flew to the north. A Blue Tit seen and heard its song. A Blue Rock Thrush seen in flight. A Red-rumped Swallow together with Barn Swallows and House Martins on the north. Heard the call of a Song Thrush near the hotel I work this morning and another one in the south forest after the sunset. A Blackbird on the north and another one in the south forest before the sunset. A Great Tit, a White Wagtail, House Sparrows and Collared Doves. Heard the call of a Scops Owl near the backyard of the hotel I work at 19:00 and heard another one in an old St. John's Bread Tree by the roadside on the south at 22:00.

2009 April 18th, Turunç

Five Alpine Swifts on the west and sixteen Alpine Swifts over the sea on the northeast seen at the same moment, a Red-rumped Swallow, Barn Swallows and House Martins, a Blackbird, a Yellow-legged Gull, House Sparrows and Collared Doves, heard the call of a Scops Owl and a Tawny Owl in the west forest at 20:00.

2009 April 16th, Turunç

Alpine Swifts arrived Turunç. Five Alpine Swifts, a Swift and two Red-rumped Swallows seen together with Barn Swallows and House Martins on the north. A Cormorant and a Yellow-legged Gull standing on a rock together on the north rocks by the shore. Heard the call of a Scops Owl in the west forest at 20:00. A Great Tit, a Blackbird, House Sparrows and Collared Doves.

2009 April 15th, Turunç

Two Jays, two Red-rumped Swallows, a Great Tit, Barn Swallows and House Martins, House Sparrows and Collared Doves, and heard the call of a Scops Owl in the west forest at 19:00.

2009 March 11th, Turunç

A Red-rumped Swallow flew off to the north.