Today was going to be another day with much more travelling. After leaving the hotel at the stunning Tolo at around 8:30ish we set off for our only site for the day which was Epidaurus. This was an ancient theatre site with fantastic surrounding scenery and other buildings.
On the whole the birds were pretty quiet, other than Hooded Crows, the odd warbler and Jays. But the insects were very loud and showy in the heat, with tons of butterflies especially.
I was fascinated more by the history so took fewer pics, but here they are.
After a few hours we left in order to return to Athens, where we were staying in the dodgy part of town again. We stopped on the way back at Corinth Canal, where we had lunch.
We then departed again leaving us plenty of time to chill when we got back. While on the coach passing the coast I spotted a large group of birds, probably near 50, feeding quite a distance offshore. I got a few crap pictures from the moving coach and they were just good enough to ID them as Yelkouan Shearwater - thanks to D Campbell and P Alfrey for help on this. It was a bird that I was very pleased to see especially as I hadn't expected seeing them at all. I'll say it now but it wasn't the last i saw of them...
We then had a very calm evening ready for our early start the following day.
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| Jay |
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| Grasshopper |
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| Greek Clouded Yellow |
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| Hooded Crow |
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| ad Yellow-legged Gull |
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| Corinth Canal |
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| Yelkouan Shearwaters |
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