It takes no great skill to get decent pictures of Greater Sand Plover at this time of the year, they are both numerous and very prominent on the shore besides being very easy to approach however, this situation will rapidly change as other waders start their return passage as the month progresses. Most will stay to build up body fat before moving on in a southerly direction but a surprising number will stay the duration of the winter. Just which breeding wader populations we have in the Gulf has never been scientifically proven, ringed returns have been minimal not enough even to suggest probabilities.
Greater Sand Plover
Kentish Plover do flock at high tide but otherwise remain paired or in family groups along the shore
Socotra Cormorant are still fairly common but birds will soon disappear to their breeding island in Hawar
Lesser Crested Tern currently only small numbers on the shore on fishing forays with breeding in full swing on offshore islands currently peaking
White-cheeked Tern an opportunistic breeder on the main island now many with fully fledged and mobile chicks
numbers will dramatically increase as they are joined by offshore breeding populations
Curlew Sandpiper now returning in increasing numbers
Curlew now a prominent species with a dramatic increase in numbers this last week
Bar-tailed Godwit small flocks seen expect more to arrive anytime soon
Greenshank starting to make a show along with the slightly more numerous Redshank
Redshank
Whimbrel one of those species where some don't migrate but with more being seen migrants could be the reason for the increase
Western Reef Heron in the middle of their breeding cycle fishing is the most important part of their daily routine methodology used does vary
Reef Heron and Redshank share the shore
Curlew and Redshank
Terek Sandpiper first returns just being noted
As always we have our more common species keeping every neighborhood company
White-cheeked Bulbul
Crested Lark
and then the oddities like this resident breeding Alexandrine Parakeet
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