Close to Hamalah farm in adjacent scrub thanks to birding friends I was finally able to get up close and personal with a Great Spotted Cuckoo
Not a lot seen at Adhari just too much disturbance at weekends but a visit did provide close-ups of a Spotted Crake and Clamorous Reed Warbler
Spotted Crake
On returning from the UK my first port of call had to be the Hypocolius morning roost adjancent to Jasra Water Pumping Sation - it was pleasing to see so many - probably well over five hundred birds pass through the site between 06:30 and 08:00 THE PEAK BEING AROUND 07:00 - this will creep earlier as the time passes keeping pace with sunrise.
Hypocolius
Male
Female
Clamorous Reed Warbler
and Bluethroat
At Hamlah Farm the problem was finding birds the site was relatively quiet and birds were often easily spooked
Richards Pipit is a species they I have been chasing for years I have seen dozens but could never get close enough for a decent phtograph well now I have and what a hind claw they have.
Meadow Pipit
Bluethroat female I believe
Isabelline Shrike
Isabelline Wheatear
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This rather weird looking Dove was keeping company with the Collared
Collared Dove
Corn Bunting
Crested Lark
Curlew
Kestrel
Lapwing
Namaqua Dove
Pallid Harrier
Red-throated Pipit
Graceful Prinia
Skylark
Tawny Pipit
Spanish Sparrow
Stonechats a mix of European and Siberian types
At the Jeble Dakhan
Desert Lark
the long staying White-crowned Black Wheatear
Desert Wheatear
After a late return from the UK the remainder of the month was really exceptional - not a lot of species around mind but what did turn up was exceptional, hence a rather long posting split into two parts
Snipe
Green Sandpiper
Marsh Sandpiper
Wood Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Kingfisher
Glossy Ibis
Pooping on the wing
Little Grebe
Green Shank
Western Reef Heron now in breeding plumage
Squacco Heron
Purple Gullinule (SwampHen)
White Wagtail
Water Pipit
But the bird of month or rather the species of the month observered at Askar has to be the two Pied Kingfishers that turned up in the last week of the month however intitialy it was thought there was only one
Pied Kingfisher
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Manama Seafront at Bahrain Bay can provide some interesting opportunities for interesting shots of fishing or roosting birds
Caspian Tern
Slender-billed Gulls
Dunlin
Great Black-headed Gull
Steppe Gull
Greater Sand Plover
Socotra Cormorant
Whimbrel
Out and about at various locations
Marsh Harrier
Little Stint
Kentish Plover
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