Birding Bahrain

Elsewhere in the gardens some local late spring early summer breeding species were out and about often with young

Clamorous Reed Warbler and young

Rufous Bush-chat and young

Coot a pair in residence at Buhair breeding - possible

Great Grey Shrike Southern

Southern Red Bishop always nice to see a few around Adhari - a site condemned to destruction

On the shore a few new species to report moving in
Black-tailed Godwit

Bar-tailed Godwits

Broad-billed Sandpiper a lonesome single more will follow very soon

Curlew Sandpiper more and more arriving

Flamingo

Greater Sand Plover

Lesser Sand Plover

Gull-billed Tern

Little Stint huge increase in numbers

Family Oyster Catchers

Non breeding summering birds being joined by birds having completed their breeding somewhere east and north of here

Squacco Heron blue is the new orange