Iz ornitolo{ke bele`nice / From the ornithological notebook
154
the night was moonless, the sky was almost cloudless and
the wind and temperatures were very mild. At around
21:30, when we were a little less than 1 km away from Sv.
Vid, we suddenly but clearly heard two or three successive
mating calls of a male Little Crake from the drainage
channel running along the road. The bird was in a very
dense and impassable 1 to 3 m high vegetation belt at a
distance of around 5 to 10 m from us on the opposite bank
of the channel. The drainage channel on this spot runs
parallel to the road and borders on small vegetable and fruit
gardens on its other side. After a couple of minutes we
compared the heard voices with the recordings we had
brought with us [Feindt, P. (1968): Vier europäische
Rallenarten. – Eigenverlag] for the sake of certainty. D.
Rucner [Rucner, D. (1952/53): Birds of the Neretva valley.
– Larus 6/7: 53–138] reported only one collected specimen
from the lower Neretva region, shot on 2 Apr 1949 at
Njivice. Other so far unpublished data were obtained in the
lower Neretva valley during the census of Bittern and other
reed birds carried out between 26 Apr and 2 May 2001 (see
Sackl et al. 2003). During the census, Dominik Bombek,
Barbara Pihlak and Jakob Smole heard, in the evening of 28
Apr 2001, mating calls of a single male in the reed beds near
Opuzen. The same group heard one calling male again in the
reed beds near Sv. Vid early in the morning of the following
day (29 Apr 2001). The short calls were repeated only few
times and the absence of reaction to the tape corresponds very
well with explosive calls, one to two syllables long. On the
grounds of our data, an occasional Little Crake’s breeding in
the lower Neretva is therefore possible.
Peter Sackl, Steiermärkisches Landesmuseum Joanneum, Raubergasse 10, 
A-8010 Graz, Austria, e-mail: peter.sackl@stmk.gv.at
Jakob Smole, Cafova 4, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia, e-mail:
jakob.smole@kiss.si
^oketa Gallinago media
Great Snipe – 4 ind. observed on 17 Sep 2003 on the
rocky side of Velo blato on Pag island (UTM WK01, N
Dalmatia) in addition to 1 Greenshank Tringa nebularia,
Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos, Ruff Philomachus
pugnax, and Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria
Dne 17.9.2003 sem se odpravil na obhod Velega blata na
Pagu. Na zahodni strani jezerca sem opazil zelenonogega
martinca Tringa nebularia, med hojo ~ez kamenje malega
martinca Actitis hypoleucos, togotnika Philomachus pugnax,
za njima pa {e zlato prosenko Pluvialis apricaria, sicer dobro
skrito v tamkaj{nem kamenju. Ve~ te`av sem imel s ~oketo,
saj sem jo tokrat videl prvi~. ^oketa se v hrva{kem Primorju
sicer redko pojavlja [Rucner, D. (1998): Ptice hrvatske obale
Jadrana. – Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej, Ministrstvo
razvitka i obnove, Zagreb]. Tokrat pa so se ve~krat spreletele
tik pred mano kar {tiri in pristale nekoliko dlje. Na vodi so
{tevil~no prevladovali ~opasti ponirki Podiceps cristatus in
liske Fulica atra. Med temi pa so plavale posamezne race –
reglja Anas querquedula, sivka Aythya ferina, konopnica Anas
strepera in `li~arica A. clypeata. Iz skoraj popolnoma suhe
krajine je priletel veliki {kurh Numenius arquata.
Dejan Bordjan, Ulica 8. februarja 50, SI-2204 Milklav`, Slovenija, e-mail:
dejanonih@email.si
^ebelar Merops apiaster
European Bee-eater – 12 ind. on 25 Apr 2003 near
Bobovi{~e on the west side of Bra~ island (UTM
XJ10, central Dalmatia), and 2 ind. on 27 Apr 2003
near Sutivan (UTM XJ10)
Na biolo{kem taboru na Bra~u se je skupina za ptice
25.4.2003 mudila pred mestom Bobovi{~e na zahodni
strani otoka. Tja smo prikolesarili in ob majhnem slanem
mo~virju po~ivali. Pred odhodom smo na majhni razdalji
opazili samca gril~ka Serinus serinus in ko smo si ga
ogledovali, sem zasli{al neko znano ogla{anje. Takoj sem z
daljnogledom sledil ogla{anju in hitro pre{tel dvanajst
~ebelarjev. Dne 27.4. sem opazoval {e dva osebka pri
Sutivanu.
Dejan Bordjan, Ulica 8. februarja 50, SI-2204 Milklav`, Slovenija, e-mail:
dejanonih@email.si
Rde~a lastovka Hirundo daurica
Red-rumped Swallow – between 13 and 20 Sep 2003
four Swallow species observed on their migration across
the Sea of Karin near Zadar (UTM WJ18, N Dalmatia):
House Martins Delichon urbica (which were prevalent in
flocks with more than 300 individuals), Barn Swallow
Hirundo rustica (seen in smaller flocks or individually),
Red-rumped Swallows (mixed flocks with House
Martins, especially juveniles, but also in flocks of adults
with up to 100 individuals), and a single Sand Martin
Riparia riparia. Additionally, a larger group of Crag
Martins Hirundo rupestris was observed in the nearby
Paklenica (UTM WK30).
Med 13.9. in 20.9.2003 sem dopustoval ob Karinskem
morju vzhodno od Zadra. Tam so me `e od samega za~etka
spremljale zelo {tevilne mestne lastovke Delichon urbica,
venomer v jatah s po ve~ kot 300 osebki. Med njimi so bile
tudi kme~ke lastovke Hirundo rustica, a so bile precej
redkej{e in v manj{ih jatah. Najve~krat sem jih videval
posami~, redko pa v jatah s po ve~ deset osebki. Tretja vrsta
lastovke je bila rde~a lastovka. Sprva sem videl samo
posamezne osebke, kasneje se je izkazalo, da so med mestnimi
tudi mnogi mladostni osebki rde~ih lastovk. Naslednje dni
sem videl ve~ odraslih tudi v jatah, ki so {tele tudi do 100
osebkov. To ka`e na dokaj mo~ne populacije te vrste na
Hrva{kem, katere {iritev je bila zaznana {ele v zadnjih 50 letih
[Kralj, J. (1997): Ornitofauna Hrvatske tijekom posljednih
dvjesto godina. – Larus 46: 1–112]. Prav na koncu sem opazil
{e breguljko Riparia riparia v me{ani jati mestnih, kme~kih in