Not a lot about really but from a single visit to Alba Marsh I did manage a few decent species images
Purple Gallinule
Wood Sandpiper
Marsh Harrier
Clamourous Reed Warbler
Isabelline Shrike
Mallard
Black-winged Stilt
Snipe
No month passes without something interesting turning up in the garden, but being able to snap a picture is not always possible. However, this month the birds were exceptional in that a real rarity turned up - an Evermann's Redstart. Initially, I had thought it just a Common Redstart having just glimpsed one but it soon showed well enough for ID. It was a chance not to miss, so it was a case of sit and wait.
Common Redstart -
A regular over the years but always nice to see
Masked Shrike
A regular around at the same time
Whitethroat
My route between my home and the office is always prone to rush hour traffic often as a means to easy that time I often stop on accessible bits of the shore - it's always rewardng just for the peace of mind it offers then with a few birds thrown in for good measure it can be - well you know the feeling
Lesser Sand Plover
Turnstone
Pied Wheatear both Females and Males
Unfortunately, Old Age caught up with me, by way of collapsed back vertebrae, 6 in total, and as a consequence, I haven't been able to move much further than a chair in front of a garden window since shortly after my talk on Hawar given in late March. Hopefully, it is a period of time that will end soon.
Interestingly even with this - the task turned up its own anomalies. The obs I had of the few migrants I clocked in and out, in terms of the time frame noted, didn't fit with the previous period recorded data. Several Species of whom I had thought would have long passed were recorded in the case of the Whitethroat in quite good numbers up until the end of the May whilst for a Female Blackcap, it remains a regular seen even today June 14th.
A most interesting obs for early May and a first for the Garden was the all too quick visit from a Wryneck -
A seasonal regular was a solitary Nightingale which stayed a week early in the month and then left as expected
The whitethroats on occasions 5 or 6 birds started being noted on the 5th and stayed up until the 29th - It had been a species I thought to pass almost completely by April end.
The last obs
Blackcap were in the garden when I first put the camera up one remains a female mentioned above
This is her - my semi-resident Female and a real prize for any sporting chap passing
So April fools day has successfully passed - time to catch up
Masked Shrike
Pratincoles passing
Red Rumped Swallow
Swallow
Northern Whaetear
Northern Whaetear
Pied Wheatear
Pied Wheatear
Pied Wheatear
Isabelline Wheatear
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff
Barred Warbler
Rufous Bushcat
Stonechat
Whinchat
Upchers Warbler
Tree Pipit
Tree Pipit
Saunders's Tern
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