Booted Eagle – Dhahran Waste Water Lake

منتزه البيضاء البري – شعبان 1445

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وصلت مع رفقتي إلى المدينة المنورة يوم الحادي عشر من شعبان الموافق 22 شباط
2024.

في اليوم التالي انطلقت بعد صلاة الفجر لزيارة هذا المنتزه الجميل وفي الطر…

17 hours ago

White Wagtail mystery

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In May-June 2019 (pre-covid, pre-war, another era) I led a Rockjumper tour
to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan (read the tour report here). Our first morning
se…

3 weeks ago

Gambia 2019

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Well behind in posting this one as life has been a bit full on but here’s
pics from our trip to Gambia in 2019. Unfortunately there will be a bit of
a gap…

2 months ago

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Notes from the field – Nader Fahad on using the OSME Birds of the Middle
East Arabic App Nader Fahad is a young bird watcher and photographer based
in Sa…

2 months ago

Home Sweet Home

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09 December 2020 – Kyalami Estate, Midrand

I am now back home in South Africa and re-united with my family after
almost a year due to the Covid restricti…

3 years ago

Stopover 187

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by M. McGrady, F. Al Lamki, B. Meyburg, A. Spalton

As mentioned in yesterday’s post (click here), 187 has been in southern
Russia for the last week or s…

3 years ago

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This morning I went to Jahra Farms, having a feeling that the
Black-throated Thrush should have arrived by now as two weeks earlier one
was found in Pivot …

4 years ago

KAUST week ending May 30, 2019

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KAUST week ending May 30, 2019

Indian Silverbill
Another very quiet week birdwise at KAUST.

A pair of Indian Silverbills have been seen a number of times…

4 years ago

Morocco October 2017

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Trip report for 4 days in Morocco October 2017

Full PDF report and images can be found here : Morocco

[image: Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita)]

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6 years ago

20 Sya’ban 1445 H – 20 days to Ramadan

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Malam Jumaat – 20 Sya’ban 1445H

Waning gibbous, 77.94%
EOS 5D Mark IV, EF400mm f5.6L + 1.4x III (560mm), ISO5000,f8, 1/2500s,
Handheld.

51 minutes ago

28th February

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With most of the day washed out – yet again! – the only meaningful
fieldwork came in the first couple of hours after dawn. A frustrating event
at the Bill …

1 day ago

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An afternoon trip out to Yarner Wood on the edge of Dartmoor to look for *Lesser
Redpoll* and I was lucky enough to get them right away as I entered the…

3 days ago

Shelduck Migration Project

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At the cannon netting session on 19th February the group took part in a
shelduck research project which aims to identify the risks to migrating
individua…

4 days ago

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17th February 2024 An hour on the scooter, north of Chiang Mia and I got
myself a lifer! Long-billed Plover at Mae Taeng Inigation Project No, you
havn’t m…

1 week ago

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January 2024 Private tour booked for the lovely Becki and Andrew on a cold
winter Friday in West Cornwall. We set off from HQ at 8.30 and headed
straight…

5 weeks ago

Rundum Highland, Tenom

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9th – 13th January 2024

Bird survey with the Sabah Birdwatchers Association at Rundum Highland,
revealed some of the exciting mixture of species from …

1 month ago

We’re migrated to a new website…

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This blogspot is no longer active and will continue to be hosted online as
an archive. But never fear, all of your favourite island news and more and
can n…

2 months ago

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SEAWATCHING in Cornwall is my main interest in birding, mainly because the
county lends itself perfectly to an incredible passage of seabirds and a
its …

2 months ago

Start of the winter Chiffs

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It’s not often we start our winter sewage works ringing in December, but a
couple of weekends of cold weather recently gave us the chance to venture
out …

2 months ago

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We can only apologise that tonight’s Blog is dropping on the wrong side of
midnight, but it has been quite a day! It began well before dawn as
inevitably…

2 months ago

30th October – 5th November

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With continued easterlies, we’ve had some more great birds during the last
week, including a yet more additions to the year list. That being said,
espec…

3 months ago

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With the season coming to an end, most of the day was spent busily sorting
out the observatory for the winter. However, mid-morning there was one last
su…

4 months ago

Birds Beaks

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I made this simple explanation about the diversity of beak types in the
birds. You could of course delve deeper into more complex beak types and
their us…

6 months ago

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[image: Lundy]
*Welcome to Lundy Bird Observatory*

As a proud member of the Bird Observatory community, Lundy Bird Observatory
is committed to and promo…

11 months ago

Early June Visit

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Over half term we had a family trip down to Cornwall again. With two out of
three children in tow we headed off on Tuesday for the rest of the week.

The…

2 years ago

What makes for a long life?

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Rob Robinson writes: I am sometimes asked the question: “How long do birds
live?” The answer is, as to many good questions, “It depends”. The oldest
known …

3 years ago

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The migration blog has a new home, head over to
https://www.bto.org/community/bto-blog to check out what species are on the
move and where best to find them.

3 years ago

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Birding at my backyard is a solo activity , that don’t involve large crowd
gathering. Friday, 13 Mar 2020, 10:23 PM MYT – Malaysia positive cases =
197 cas…

3 years ago

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For those who have not heard, I am afraid I have some bad news to share.
Rob, my brother, died suddenly at home in Mauritania from a heart attack on
the 9t…

5 years ago