Bahrain Obs

A family group of Cattle Egrets - two adults plus Juv were seen at Badaan Farm 11th July 2008 - following on from a previous breeding record in Al Areen last year this is the second breeding record

A distant record image was obtain - AJ got a much closer shot of the youngster see his page for that

Spanish Sparrow

we have now ringed 14 Spanish Sparrows including (see under ringing) numerous juvenile birds -
Considering it is barely a year since we saw our second country record for this species - it is remarkable how quickly they have carved out a niche and obtained a substantial breeding population.