Birding Bahrain

This last weekend saw the mercury rise to the mid forties which with the increase in humidity made for a sweaty weekend. Needless to say most migrants have now passed so I spent my time seeing what was left mostly on the shore.

Some non-breeding waders Curlew, Grey and Ringed Plover a Northern Cormrant and an Oyster Catcher plus a few Grey Herons and a small number of Slender-billed Gulls remain on the shore amongst our summer breeding terns and Reef Herons. In the gardens very little now around a few Bushchats and Olivaceous warblers supplement our resident birds along with the last of the Flycatchers.

Breeding Birds are always worth finding Black-winged Stilt chicks are beginning to show as are the first Reef Heron chicks around the Mangroves of Tubli bay. The Kentish seem to have finished although some might second brood otherwise its birds building nests or tending young.

Western Reef Heron

Black-winged Stilt

Chick

Kentish Plover - a really washed out and odd looking bird

Namaqua Dove - a juvenile bird indicating continued successful breeding

Wood Sandpiper

Ringed Plover

Eurasian Curlew

Northern Cormorant

Large Gull species unknown

Slender-billed Gulls with Caspian Terns

Night herons returning from a nights hunting