Bahrain Obs

Although I live in the middle of Manama I have recorded over eighty species from my Garden (I count fly over as well), the garden is fortunately large, I maintain it in a state of clean chaos; that is heavily overgrown and unkempt, it has a great mix of native fruiting trees and once I repair the leeking pond permanent water.

Common Myna Acridotheres tristis In the UK you have chickens to wake you - in the morning here its Myna's particularily as nesting season is now in full swing for many of our local garden Birds.

Rose-ringed Parakeet Psittacula krameri

White-cheeked Bulbul Pycnonotus leucogenys and Red-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus cafer happily co-exist, the Red-vented nests in a nearby lamp post while the Whitecheeked of which I have at least 3 pairs nests in my thick hedges and shrubs.