It is a long time since I've posted anything on this blog, so dates may be out of orderš¢
I've just come back from a trip to Corfu (with a day trip to Albania) with Naturetrek. Despite the weather not being particularly brilliant I did see quite a lot including some new orchids which I mainly found myself, a small selection of butterflies and some good birds.
The hotel was nice even though two nights we had a gang of rowdy UK girls who decided to roll in to the hotel in the early hours and proceeded to keep me awake with their banging, clattering and chatting in loud voices.
Outside the hotel was an area of scrub and trees which yielded Wryneck, Scops Owl, Woodchat Shrike and a display by Fireflies every night. One night I managed to call in a Scops Owl right outside my room with my bad impersonation.
Although the hotel didn't have a bar or serve evening meals we went to a couple of local restaurants which served good meals (and lots of it) and beer!.
Birds of the holiday were Roller (x2), Eastern Subalpine Warbler, Eastern Orphean Warbler, Collared Flycatcher, Wood Warbler (a migrant on the south of the island), c30 Gull-billed Tern and Black-eared Wheatear.
Here is a selection of photos:
