Birding Bahrain

Yesterday the weather turned foul yet again - strong winds and dust reduced visibility but trapped the heat so we decided not to go ringing at Badaan but check various sites for migrants. Brendan headed off to the south, Abdulla went east to the shore and I went north to Maharraq -

I was the lucky one as I found a Crab Plover at Busaiteen the first here for several years - a quick call to Brendan and Abdulla brought them running Brendan made it to get a "Lifer" after around 40 mins Abdulla sadly had to divert.

Waders are now arriving in large numbers Curlew Sandpiper, Dunlin, Little Stint, Curlew, Bar-tailed, Godwit, Redshank, Lesser and Greater Sandplover, so with large numbers of Terns and small gulls shorelines are filling rapidly