A hot humid day, quieter than expected but still some interesting birds ringed including some more exotics.
Olivaceous Warbler







Scaly Breasted Munia



Yellow-crowned Bishop a male Euplectes afer

A busy weekend with a few surprises by way of a Great Reed Warbler, Pale Rock Sparrow and a Red-rumped Swallow adding interest to a steady flow of birds ringed.
Whimbrel




Sandmartin


Rufous Bushchat


Pale Rock Sparrow




Crested Lark - pic of a juvenile bird illustrating moult
A surprise for everybody was this female Black-headed Bunting Emberiza melanocephala - a scarce migrant normally seen in autumn unexpectedly turned up in the nets in early August




Yet another escape - Green Singing Finch or Yellow-fronted Canary Serinus mozambicus


We have now reach 3000 birds Ringed since we started this project -
With observations of large flocks and the ringing of many individuals including many juvenile birds we can now confirm that Spanish Sparrow now breed in Bahrain
adult Spanish Sparrow male in moult






a juvenile female






Our target species were our migrant breeders - Olivaceous Warblers and Rufous Bushchats - we were not disappointed as we manged to catch some of each plus a single White-cheeked Bulbul a resident breeding species.
Rufous Bushchat



Olivaceous Warbler



Abdulla - will soon become Bahrain's first officially trained Licensed BTO "RINGER" he is Brendan's first pupil here - a keen birder, Abdulla has since a boy always had an interest, according to Brendan it won't be long before he is able to move out on his own.
Master and Pupil


Abdulla show off his digital calipers

Friday we went out to Jarim Reef - on it in the late eighties three man-man islands were put in - two have since become home to thousands of breeding terns each summer - outnumbering all are the Lesser Crested at least 3000 pairs followed by Bridled 500+/- then White-cheeked around 200+/- besides these 15+/- pairs of Western Reef Herons, Kentish Plover and a small number of Saunders's Terns. Each Winter a few pairs of Caspian Terns have been noted as well as a single pair of Ospreys - who have now built a substantial nest - they have yet to successfully rear any young.
We ringed 350 Lesser Crested Tern Chicks and around a dozen White-cheeked Terns - we will revisit the colonies in three weeks when the Bridled and White-cheeked chicks are more numerous.
More pictures under Bahrain Obs.









the lads who joined in - the back of the boat

Khalifa who sat in the front with me

Brendan having a recce

If he can do it so can I
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