Birding Bahrain

Friday

saw our first trip to Jarim this year - bird numbers have increased yet again; the Lesser Crested Terns now number on the first island I estimate over ten thousand Birds with the Bridled close to a thousand and White-cheeked over the islands in general a similar number. Brendan ringed 450 Lesser Crested Tern chicks ably assisted by Abdulqader Kamis with my crew - all the odd bods like Kev AJ Nabeel and Mohammed(our coastguard crew)and myself scrambling through the dirt and dust sweeting our '' off catching the little blighters made worse by yet another dust storm that had descended again on Bahrain.

Lesser-crested Terns

Bridled Terns -

Saturday

Weather just as yucky as Fridays but more humid with less wind
Having crashed out early on our return the day before from Jarim I was up bright and early and spent the morning trolling the gardens around Buri and Dumistan checking out what was active.

Rufous Bush Robin a territorial dispute between males

Collared Partincole

Collared Dove

Crested Lark

Palm Dove

House Sparrow

Dove just a weird one a funny colour