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We were not the only birders there: two Danes were aLready watching. They 
had found the hiil a week to ten days earlier, in the same way that we 
had. They toLd us of the numbers of birds they had been seeing: many 
times more than we had seen from Caralica during the same period. The 
migration over Sariyer Hill is quite different from that at Camlica. From 
the time we arrived (0900), there were birds in the air: 173 in the first 
hour (Taole 1), the i a dull peri od between 1.000 - 1200, wit i under i 
birds seen. From noon, the numbers steadily grew, with the peak time 
between 1500 and 1600. We left at 1700 to get back to the hotel, but 
there were still more birds coming through at that time; some were putting 
down in the forest. 
Time: 0900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600-1700 
Honey Buzzard 1 
Black Kite 1 
Egyptian Vulture 1 3 
Griffon Vulture 4 
Short-toed eagle 11 20 13 8 10 19 48 57 
SparrowhawK. 3274 7521 
Levant Sparrowhawk 7 
Buzzard 25 17 10 68 200 254 279 432 
Lesser Spotted eagle 131 17 6 20 143 150 1113 215 
Booted Eagle 2 1 4 3 5 1 
Hobby 2 1 2 3 2 2 2 2 
Black Stork J 2 2 I 8 69 
Totals 173 59 39 105 375 435 1472 780 -3438 
Table 1: 
Numbers of birds seen per hour from Sariyer Hill, 26 September 
September 27 was our 'Dig day' (Table 2), and the pattern was the satae , 
with birds flying as soon as we arrived (0740), a dull spell between 
1000 - 1200, and picking up in the afternoon; and again when we left there 
were still a great many birds coming through. 
