We had to get the car at noon so I set and alarm and headed out to the salt flats around 7:30. It was a short walk to the water but the flats are huge and I walked a total of 3.5 miles in the two hours that I was out. I saw several kinds of birds along the way. I got back all muddy but just in time for us to get our breakfast downstairs.
A memorial park
With Howitzers
It says "To the Immortal Greeks Cypress Is Grateful" This memorial if for the Greeks who were killed or went missing in 1974 in the war with Turkey over Cyprus
Pink from the salt
A mirror like surface of the water makes it look like a painting
I have happened upon the flamingos
42 in total
Long legs
They are all in a single file
The background is key
The legs look so long
Maximum zoom
Good contrast pink vs. brown
Here there was a bank of grass behind them
So the greens and blues get mixed
I think they are still waking up
One of them is starting to eat
The buildings and trees in the background are making the picture too busy
Eurasian Stonechat
A heron is photobombing
Just trying to blend in
The beak on the heron looks huge
Back to a darker background
Still sleeping
Hooded crow
Armenian gulls
The vegetation on the banks is low scrub
Perfect for the stonechats
This is a female
This is the male
Cypress tree nuts
Lots of snails shells
Something had a nice meal
The gulls
The airport in the distance
The path that offered a different kind of mud to walk through
A big bird hide
No concerts today
Now the reflection is just the cloudy sky
Face off
Stilts
One leg or two
Scratching time
Staring contest
The rule of threes
Odd man out
I wonder what made this track
Two hooded crows and bars on the windows
The Cyprus Civil Defense HQ is here
A boat upon the waves
A building boom in this neighborhood
They look nice
A grumpy cat
Right next to a beautiful rose
Time to fly!
