Bahrain Obs

Building and future development as a consequence should be minimal. The site was full of waders’, terns and gulls with numbers increasing as the tide reached a peak in the early afternoon. Not the easiest place to photograph stuff without a long lens but a good place to sit and observe – in time and outside evenings when people crowd the shore this could well develop into a excellent small and accessible site. I spent so long in fact there I only had time after leaving to visit Saar and the Hypocolius roost later in the afternoon. Only one Hypocolius was observed – so the next challenge will have to be to find out where all the others go.

Bartailed Godwits

Curlew

Dunlin

Greenshank

Redshank

Grey Plover

Greater Sand Plover

Lesser Sand Plover

Kentish Plover

Juvenile Western Reef Heron - are often mottled as this individual

The lagoon also held several hundred Saunder's Little Terns.

and numerous common waders, a large flock of Slender-billed Gulls and other mixed flocks of Lesser Crested and Caspian Terns

Slender-billed Gulls