Is is that time of the year again to check regularly for locally breeding birds particularly in and around our few wetland sites, one never knows what will turn up there - and then there is the shore - to check for breeding species and the first returning waders. Elsewhere there is still plenty of time to go before first records of the passerines will start showing up mixing with those locally breeding species but still a lot of ground to cover in the meantime often with little in return. Can be more a question often of glimpsed or heard, rather than fully observed.
Black-crowned Night Heron a very visible day time species at the moment making observations quite easy
One of many juvenile birds seen note a young bird the eye has yet to turn orange/red
Black-winged Stilt an early breeder in April and May
Kentish Plover Chick smallest youngest seen most probably from a second brood
Lesser Crested Tern just started breeding currently on offshore Islands
Little Grebe juvenile this one independent and well developed but others still still dependent on adults
Little Tern Chick breeding more wide spread this year
Saunders's Tern breeds slightly earlier than Little - chicks far more advanced
Socotra Cormorant will start breeding in late September on Hawar here a first year bird
Squacco Heron - breeding well advanced one fledged chick seen so far
White-cheeked Tern breeding season well advanced not fussy about habitat for breeding any quiet corner near the shore will do
Western Reef Heron extensive season well underway breeding in mangrove on coastal scrub, bushes and even trees
Returns on the shore
Greater Sand Plover return increasing
Interesting picture - extreme left locally breeding Kentish Plover and on the hard right a Lesser Sand Plover - central birds all Greater Sands
Lesser Sand Plover (hard right)
Some of the central birds
Greater Sand Plover post breeding molt starting
Dunlin a very early arrival
Ragged yet very interesting 2nd year birds - have they been somewhere and returned or have Black Headed Gulls breed locally
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