

Sunday 14th of March 2021 and I go to look for a souvenir doll for my friend, without any luck. I walk down to the water front and I start my eBird app and I walk towards the marina. The eBird hotspot: is called “Paphos Lighthouse Area” but no lighthouse to be seen.
Eurasian Collared Dove
Looking for the entrance and I see a lot of House Sparrows and I also see the Collared Doves and Hooded Crows and I found out that I had to enter an entrance reach the light house. You have to enter the Paphos Archaeological Park.
Admission fee 4€ 50¢ and it was worth the money to get inside.
Entrance at the marina so I followed the water front to the marina and I discovered the building where the entrance to the Paphos Archaeological Park.
Walking along Paphos waterfront
Walking along Paphos waterfront
Ice Cream van at Paphos waterfront
Ice Cream van at Paphos waterfront
I find an ice cream van close to the entrance to the Paphos Archaeological Park and I go to check it out. I find out that they have soft ice cream. I order one BIG soft ice cream and he have to start the van to get power to the ice cream machine.
The ice cream was excellent and when I had finished the ice cream I gave to cone for the birds to eat.
I went to the entrance to the Paphos Archaeological Park and I paid the entrance fee and my ticket was stamped with the biggest stamp I have ever seen.
I got the ticket and I went out on the back and I was soon running in to two Great Tits.
I could hear a lot of birds and we had many Barn Swallows flying around.
I walk towards the light house and I see that there are both Barn Swallows with white belly and some of the Barn Swallows was very red and dark.
I sent a picture to my Guide and it was the transitiva subspecies, middle -east.
But I could not find any references to this in eBird. I will see if I can find anything about the different subspecies.
Stamping my ticket
I spotted several warblers going towards the light house. I hear a lot of birds but did not see any birds before I sat down to have a look around. I never got any good pictures, but good enough to ID the birds I didn't know.
It is a nice area to walk around in and I decided to come here on our next day off from the birding with the CYPRUS BIRD WATCHING TOURS
Paphos Lighthouse Area
Paphos Lighthouse Area
Sardinian Warbler
Eurasian Skylark
Listen to the Great Tit
Remarks from the Recordist
Recorded with my ZOOM H5 Handy Recorder. High Pass Filter applied with Audacity
Sitting in a bush singing. There were many Great Tits in the area.
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Today's track at Paphos Lighthouse Area
eBird Report
Paphos Lighthouse Area, Pafos, Cyprus
Mar 14, 2021 11:14 - 14:16
Protocol: Traveling
2.12 kilometer(s)
14 species
Common Woodpigeon 1
Collared Dove 3
Yellow-legged Gull 9
Great Cormorant 1
Hooded Crow 5
Great Tit 7
Eurasian Skylark 2
Crested Lark 2
Barn Swallow 10
Lesser Whitethroat 1
Sardinian Warbler 3
House Sparrow 6
Meadow Pipit 1
European Greenfinch 1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S83369344
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (https://ebird.org/home)
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I left the Paphos Archaeological Park and I turned off my eBird app. I skipped the ice cream van walking back home, and I also skipped the supermarket. Sunday today and there was a lot of people walking along the water front. People selling balloons, actually one kid lost her balloon and I was running after the balloon. They screamed that it was not necessarily. But I don’t want no flippin' balloon in the nature
Ask me and I would have ban the balloons. Balloons is just trash in the nature.
No more food and I had planned for an “Oatmeal Surprise” but I had fish fingers in the freezer so fish finger it was.
House Sparrow
House Sparrow
My Guide from CYPRUS BIRD WATCHING TOURS will be here tomorrow morning at 6 thirty and we will do birding around Paphos looking for migration birds coming from Africa going north. The migrating birds are a little late this year.
Just need to click HERE to find out what we find.


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