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Post details: 4th November 2007

05/11/07

4th November 2007

12:59:09 pm, Categories: Submit Observation

This afternoon I was able to get a couple of hours of birding in but as it gets dark at 5pm these days I could not go far so I spent the time looking around the reclamation areas of Busaiteen a short drive from my house. Several pairs of Caspian Terns were scattered at regular intervals along the shore - they breed from October through to February in Bahrain - on the coast in any quiet corner, normally just above the tide line.

Caspian Tern

The seawall proved a good place to find Wheatears over twenty of three species were observed.
Desert Wheatear

Desert Wheatear
Pied Wheatear

Pied Wheatear
Isabelline Wheatear

In the failing light I was able to grab a few pictures of the species encountered along the shore
Slender-billed Gull

Lesser Sand Plover

Lesser Sand Plover

Turnstone, Plovers and Little Stint, then Lesser Crested Terns with Godwits and Curlew
Waders

terns and Waders
Dunlin
Dunlin
Finally I finished at the mud flats at the northern end of the runway at sunset - if visiting BEWARE there are stupid Military personel in the area who don't understand that people might be interested in something other than them.
Busaiteen Mud Flats