This was possibly the most numerous bird that I saw in Cyprus - at the Cape Greco area they were literally everywhere, particularly on the cliffs, and their default behaviour, other than making an absolute racket (far more so than Red-legged Partridge here which I rarely hear) was to fly off a great distance, usually in an enormous arc. I hadn't taken a scope, so only once did I get decent views of a bird and that was from the car. I found that I could drive by and the birds took no notice, but of course the moment the car rolled to a stop, the bird was off! I had just enough time to snap this out of the window before the bird went off behind a ridge - running, not flying, and I quite like the sense of movement from the photo as it's not something I often manage to get. This was another new bird for me, though not high on the list of targets - as mentioned that was the Wheatear - would that we had regular birds in this country, or at least down south. The passage this year has been very poor so far on the patch, I've barely seen ten individuals. I hope it isn't over, but there is always the autumn.