Hampshire birding and beyond

We awoke early around 6am and headed straight to Paphos headland whilst being serenaded by Nightingales singing all around us and Swallows, Swifts and House Martin's buzzing in the sky's. It took abit of finding as we drove around and around in circles but we eventually found it and headed out to the coastal path. The sun was rising and it was a glorious morning with birds everywhere. In quick succession we picked up Sardinian Warbler, Black-eared Wheatear, Crested Lark, Ruppell's Warbler , White Wagtails and hundreds of Yellow Wagtails of various types.  Black-eared Wheatear Ruppells Warbler White Wagtail Continuing on we then found our first Red Throated Pipits of the trip. Initially we found a few on the rocky beach however they certainly wasn't easy to get close to until we got to the point where a bank of wildflowers growing held a good number of them c20 feeding and here we were treated to brilliant views down to a few metres. A Whimbrel was offshore and a group o