1^st Sep.  At Neo Tavronitis.  A flock of 60+ purple herons.
               At Skoutolonas.  A single fan tailed warbler shows that at least some survived the winter weather.
               At Episkopi.  A Steppe buzzard.
               At Malathiros.  An adult golden eagle.
               At Kamisiana.  A flock of 33 white storks; then a flock of 59 purple herons with a single juvenile white stork; then a flock of 6 purple herons; then a flock of 285 purple herons; then a flock of 8 purple herons.

2^nd Sep.  At Neo Chorio.  A group of 3 honey buzzards.
                At Tavronitis.  Flocks of purple herons kept going by - 20; 6; 4; 6; 4; 20...  In  a tree 7 little egrets were perched whilst an eleonoras falcon was hunting over beds of giant reed.
                 

3^rd Sep.  At Neo Chorio.  3 separate pairs of honey buzzards.
                At Tavronitis.  A flock of 9 purple herons followed by another flock of 20+.

4^th Sep.  At Tavronitis.  A female hen harrier and an eleonoras falcon.

5^th Sep.  At Neo Chorio.  3 honey buzzards and a pair of long legged buzzards were circling with our trio of common buzzards.  The trio did not like the intrusion into their air space at all, with lots of dive bombing and calling as they drove the migrants away.                

7^th Sep.  At Neo Chorio.  A flock of 25+ bee-eaters.
 

8^th Sep. At Tavronitis.  A flock of 92 black storks of which 2/3rds were either juvenile or immature flew up and down along the coast trying to find somewhere to land and feed.  A pair of juvenile lesser spotted eagles were harried by the pair of resident marsh harriers before moving on.
               At Neo Chorio.  A flock of alpine swifts and another of bee-eaters could be clearly heard but not seen, being too high up.  

9th Sep. At Tavronitis. A flock of 7 white storks; then one of 26 black storks.  A flock of 19 yellow legged gulls very noisily circled;  then a flock of 31 purple herons flew along the coast.  Good close up views of a juvenile rough legged buzzard and, very obligingly, an adult isabelline wheatear stood at the edge of the road asking to be positively identified.
                 At Neo Chorio.  2 honey buzzards.  Then flocks of bee-eaters came through - 100+; 150+; 100+; and 30+.  Others could be heard but were too high up to see.

10^th Sep. At Tavronitis.  A single glossy ibis.

11^th Sep. At Tavronitis.  A glossy ibis and a pair of woodchat shrikes.
                 At Neo Chorio.  A golden oriole was calling but could not be seen as it was skulking and wisely keeping itself hidden from predators.

12^th Sep. At Neo Chorio.  Several flocks of bee-eaters could be heard but again were too high to be seen.  Very sensible to fly so high as any lower might provoke hunters to blast them with shotguns.

13^th Sep. At Tavronitis.  1 black stork and a flock of purple herons.
  

14^th Sep. At Neo Chorio.  A flock of 9 bee-eaters rested on the power lines and raided the bee hives just above our house.  Luckily the bee-keeper was not around.
           

15^th Sep. At Neradzia.  A single booted eagle.

18^th Sep. Over Chania Harbour.  Thronged with thousands of tourists taking in the sun and filling their stomachs with local delicacies, a lone white stork circled several times.
                  At Neo Chorio.  More bee-eaters and alpine swifts flew by but again very high up.  A single eleonoras falcon at dusk.  

19^th Sep.  At Neo Chorio.  Yet more bee-eaters.
                  At Tavronitis.  A flock of 76 white storks; then a flock of 11 purple herons followed by another 82.  This second flock was calling repeatedly and must have been distressed for some reason as usually they are silent or we just hear the odd grunt call.

20^th Sep.  At Tavronitis.  A flock of 37 caspian terns was calling and circling.  These were the first I have seen and I was most impressed by size.  With their big bills and as big as many of the larger gulls they were quite a sight.  Then a flock of 57+ white storks; a flock of 61 purple herons; and a flock of 5 little egrets.  Just to show that I also record the more ordinary birds there was also a pair of wheatears foraging in a field near the estuary.

21^st Sep.  At Neo Chorio. A booted eagle.

22^nd Sep.  At Tavronitis.  2 purple herons; a great white egret; and a flock of 15+ little egrets flew along the coast.
                  

23rd Sep.  At Neo Chorio.   The first of the wintering black redstarts have arrived and are busy fighting each other to set up a winter territory.  Robins and black caps have also arrived.

26^th Sep.  At Tavronitis. A pair of glossy ibis.