With Christmas and then the New Year- December is alsways a short month and also with January normorally fairly quiet but for a few the appearance of some Calandra Larks at Hamalah changed all that. With a single Observation in 1982 it was really nice to be able to get to grips with this species with a camera in Hand. Found in a mixed flock of hundreds of other larks conataining a few Bimaculated but mostly Skylarks it was hard work sifting through them to spot our wayward intoloper.
At Ras Tubli the Staiated Heron now resident showed briefly at the back of the mangrove at the same spot where the juvenile was last seen
White-crowned Black Wheatear winter on the Jebel wonder if its white cap will develope before it leaves
Steppe Buzzard on the Jebel Dakhan proved a delight
Starling a large wintering flock near the Refinery never settled unfortunately for a photo session
Common Kingfisher
Common Sandpiper
Tufted Duck looking odd in eclipse plumage here with a Mallard
expected but interesting
Red-throated Pipit
Meadow Pipit
Ruff
Snipe
Osprey
Marsh Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper and Red Shank in background
Lapwing
Glossy Ibis
Great White Egret
Greenshank
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