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 24th, Turunç

Seven Alpine Swifts flew over the hotel I work together with Barn Swallows and House Martins, heard the song of a Scops Owl before sunset.

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.

2008 October 12th, Göcek

Two Mallards seen in flight and landed by the reeds at the end of the shore on the west of Göcek in the morning. A White Wagtail at the port. A Shag stood on the rocks on the southface of Göcek Island. Over thirthy Yellow-legged Gulls around the islands and bays. Four Robins in the olive trees and a Willow Warbler in St. John's Bread Tree. The hoarse scream of a Jay heard in the ruins of the church and then seen in flight on Tersane Island.

On the way back by boat around 18:00 a raptor seen in flight over the rock-cut tombs at Taşyaka, but could not be identified because of the opposite light. It seemed like an eagle.

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 19th, Turunç

A Blue Rock Thrush perched on the top branch of a tree in the garden of a bar near the hotel I work and flew to the north after it sang there for a while. Two Jays (one of them mewed like a buzzard), two Great Tits in courtship, a Blackbird, Barn Swallows and House Martins, House Sparrows and Collared Doves.

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 April 14th, Turunç

Swifts arrived Turunç. Two Swifts seen on the north, they flew together with House Martins and Barn Swallows and then flew to the east. A Common Buzzard seen over the peaks on the northwest of Turunç where there is a hotel on the hillslopes, and it kept its site in flight like hovering for a couple of seconds, then flew to the west and disappeared behind the peaks. Bee-eaters arrived Turunç. I heard their calls but I could not spot them. Heard the calls of two Scops Owls from the forest on the west at 20:00. A Great Tit, a Blackcap, a Jay, Collared Doves and House Sparrows, too.

2008 October 13th, The Lake Köyceğiz

Hundreds of Cormorants (nearly 300) in the pine wood by the lake at Kızlan Location, nearly thirty or fourty Little Grebes on the southeast of the lake, again lots of Little Grebes, three Little Egrets and a Marsh Harrier after the biggest island on the east of the Lake Köyceğiz.

2008

2008 October 11th, Horozlar
2008 October 11th, Dalyan
2008 October 11th, Dalyan
2008 October 11th, Dalyan
2008 October 12th, Göcek
2008 October 13th, The Lake Köyceğiz
2008 October 13th, Sultaniye
2008 October 13th, Hamitköy
2008 October 13th, Köyceğiz
2008 October 13th, Köyceğiz
2008 October 13th, Dalyan
2008 October 13th, İztuzu
2008 October 13th, Horozlar
2008 October 14th, Ölüdeniz
2008 October 14th, Kayaköy
2008 October 14th, Fethiye
2008 October 15th, Dalyan
2008 October 15th, Dalyan
2008 October 18th, Dalyan
2008 October 19th, Göcek
2008 October 20th, Dalyan
2008 October 20th, Dalyan
2008 October 21st, Ovacık
2008 October 21st, Ölüdeniz
2008 October 21st, Kayaköy
2008 October 21st, Fethiye
2008 October 21st, Sarıgerme
2008 October 21st, Mergenli
2008 October 21st, Sulungur
2008 October 23rd, Dalyan
2008 October 23rd, Dalyan
2008 October 24th, Dalyan
2008 October 25th, Dalyan
2008 October 26th, Dalyan
2008 October 28th, Ölüdeniz
2008 October 28th, Kayaköy
2008 October 28th, Fethiye
2008 October 28th, Dalyan

2008 November 15th, Kavakarası
2008 November 15th, Yangı
2008 November 17th, Dalyan
2008 November 17th, Dalyan
2008 November 29th, Gökbel
2008 November 29th, Okçular
2008 November 29th, Sulungur
2008 November 29th, Dalyan
2008 November 29th, İztuzu

2008 December 2nd, Dalyan
2008 December 12th, Dalyan

2009

2009 January 2nd, Turunç
2009 January 5th, Turunç
2009 January 11th, Turunç
2009 January 16th, Turunç
2009 January 17th, Turunç
2009 January 19th, Turunç
2009 January 23rd, Turunç
2009 January 25th, Turunç

2009 February 16th, Dalyan
2009 February 16th, Dalyan
2009 February 16th, Dalyan
2009 February 16th, Dalyan

2009 March 1st, Turunç
2009 March 6th, Turunç
2009 March 8th, Turunç
2009 March 10th, Turunç
2009 March 11th, Turunç
2009 March 14th, Turunç
2009 March 19th, Turunç
2009 March 20th, Turunç
2009 March 21st, Turunç
2009 March 22nd, Turunç
2009 March 24th, Turunç
2009 March 28th, Turunç
2009 March 28th, Marmaris
2009 March 28th, Çamlı
2009 March 28th, Akçapınar
2009 March 28th, Çetibeli
2009 March 28th, Çıtlık
2009 March 28th, Kızılyaka
2009 March 28th, Karaböğürtlen
2009 March 28th, Toparlar
2009 March 28th, Zeytinalanı
2009 March 28th, Yangı
2009 March 28th, Gölbaşı
2009 March 28th, Dalyan
2009 March 29th, Ortaca
2009 March 29th, Dalyan
2009 March 29th, Okçular

2009 April 4th, Turunç
2009 April 5th, Turunç
2009 April 6th, Turunç
2009 April 7th, Turunç
2009 April 9th, Turunç
2009 April 10th, Turunç
2009 April 11th, Turunç
2009 April 12th, Turunç
2009 April 14th, Turunç
2009 April 15th, Turunç
2009 April 16th, Turunç
2009 April 18th, Turunç
2009 April 19th, Turunç
2009 April 20th, Turunç
2009 April 21st, Turunç
2009 April 23rd, Turunç
2009 April 24th, Turunç
2009 April 25th, Turunç
2009 April 26th, Turunç
2009 April 28th, Turunç




2008 October 13th, Sultaniye

Two Cormorants, two Little Grebes, a Marsh Harrier and a Grey Wagtail at Sultaniye Location (southwest of the Lake Köyceğiz).

2008 October 13th, Hamitköy

Hundreds of Cormorants, ten Little Grebes, nearly fifty or sixty Little Gulls flew close to the water surface, Barn Swallows and more than hundred Coots at Hamitköy Location (northwest of the Lake Köyceğiz).

2008 October 13th, Köyceğiz

A Blackcap, four Willow Warblers, an Orphean Warbler, a Chiffchaff, three Collared Doves, House Sparrows,a White Wagtail, a Grey Wagtail, a Spotted Flycatcher, a Red-backed Shrike, Barn Swallows, a Robin and ten Goldfinches at Karabatak Location near the Köyceğiz Harbour (northeast of the Lake Köyceğiz). Feral Pigeons at the Köyceğiz Harbour.

2008 October 13th, Köyceğiz

Three Cormorants, nearly twenty Little Grebes, three Little Egrets, two Kingfishers, a Moorhen, a Whiskered Tern flew over the Cormorants at Karabatak Location near the Köyceğiz Harbour (northeast of the Lake Köyceğiz). A Kingfisher at the harbour.

2008 October 13th, Dalyan

A Peregrine Falcon flew off at Maraş Str. this morning and two White Wagtails.

2008 October 13th, İztuzu

A Ringed Plover on the beach.

2008 October 13th, Horozlar

Six Hooded Crows, ten Corn Buntings perching in a leafless bush, a Little Grebe in the canal, a Marsh Harrier, four Little Egrets perching in the dead tree and fifteen Little Egrets together in the marsh, a Kingfisher flew off after Dalyan Mud Baths and two Kingfishers perching on the reeds near the marsh where I saw the Little Egrets, three Moorhens in the branch of the canal after the mud bath and six Cormorants in a pine wood by the mud bath at Horozlar.

2008 October 14th, Ölüdeniz

Two Chiffchaffes and heard the call of a Robin in the camping area at Ölüdeniz.

2008 October 14th, Kayaköy

A Robin and a Jay at Kayaköy.

2008 October 14th, Fethiye

Two Yellow-legged Gulls and two Little Gulls in flight and two White Pelicans at the Fethiye Harbour.

2008 October 15th, Dalyan

A Red-backed Shrike, nearly twenty Goldfinches in flight and I have spotted an Orphean Warbler in a fig tree at Maraş Str.

2008 October 15th, Saklıkent Kanyonu

A Grey Wagtail by the stream in the canyon, heard the song of a Rock Nuthatch in the backyard of a restaurant out of the canyon.

2008 October 18th, Dalyan

A Peregrine Falcon and a Kestrel (both in flight), two Kingfishers in the canal, four Cormorants in flight and a dead Cormorant in water, two Red-backed Shrikes (both juvenile), a Spotted Crake in the branch oh the canal before the farm, fifteen Crested Larks, Hooded Crows at the other side of the canal, three Willow Warblers, three Goldfinches, heard the song of a Cetti's Warbler in the reeds, House Sparrows and Collared Doves around the farm by the Dalyan Canal.

2008 October 19th, Göcek

Yellow-legged Gulls at the Göcek Harbour and its bays and islands, a Grey Heron standing and waiting by the seaside and two Robins in the pine wood in Büyükova Bay, a Robin and a Kingfisher in Bedri Rahmi Bay, two Kingfishers flew from the rocks and two Stonechats catching the flies over the bushes and two Jays at Tersane Island, a Shag standing at the edge of the light buoy.

2008 October 20th, Dalyan

Five Spotted Flycatchers together on a wire, four Chiffchaffes, two Black Redstarts, two Great Tits, a Robin, two Goldfinches and two Cetti's Warblers around the farm by the Dalyan Canal.

2008 October 20th, Dalyan

A Kestrel perching on the top of a tree, heard the call of a Little Owl (day time), a Jay strolling around the bushes on the rocky hill slopes, nearly fourty Hooded Crows and six Crested Larks, ten White Wagtails on the ground of a field, a Grey Wagtail in a ditch by the same field, a Kingfisher flew over the Dalyan Canal, all these observed near the farm by the canal.