#Birds #Bahrain #Waders are arriving in good numbers: Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, Common Redshank. Wood Sandpiper

#Birds #Bahrain Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin is an early summer migrant breeding species.

#Bahrain #Birds It's never been anywhere near Tibet, so it remains to me at least for now, a Lesser Sand Plover

#Bahrain #Birds Bar-tailed Godwits have started to return

#Bahrain #Birds Kentish Plover

#Bahrain #Birds Socotra Cormorant incoming

#Bahrain #Birds White-cheeked Tern on the nest

#Bahrain #Birds Squacco Heron now a regular breeding species

#Bahrain #Birds. Near miss this morning with an incoming gift from Iran, they hit a nearby building penthouse. No injuries, but the next building, on its line, was a HOSPITAL. Back to more amiable incoming objects in flight, Lesser Crested Terns

#Bahrain #Birds Juvenile Black-winged Stilt

#Bahrain #Birds Previously scarce, almost vagrant, both the Spur-winged and Red-wattled Lapwing are now locally breeding residentS. This year, there are two pairs of the former and seven pairs of the latter.

#Birds #Bahrain Bridled Terns are a regular spring migrant and summer-breeding species. They have the longest breeding cycle of all our terns, over 90 days

#Birds #Bahrain Saunders's Tern chick not long to go before it flies

#Bahrain #Birds I just received a message from our #BTO ringer Abdullah Al Kaab that he had just recovered a White -cheeked Tern he had first ringed as a chick here on 13/6/2011, making it 15 years old

#Bahrain #Birds Lesser Crested Tern, one of many that breed each summer, mostly on small uninhabited offshore islands.

#Bahrain #Birds White-cheeked Tern, a widespread summer breeding migrant that will depart south from October into early November

A few snaps from my trip to #Northumberland last weekend. 1/3 Tern #UKBirding #Birds #nature #wilfdlife 📷 Arctic Tern 📷 Arctic Tern 📷 Arctic and female American Black Tern 📷 2 Roseate and 1 Sandwich Tern

#Bahrain #Birds Greenshank bookends, the only two migrant waders I found on the shore yesterday

#Bahrain #Birds A late addition to migrants passing through, a Spoonbill

#Bahrain #Birds from today White-winged Tern

#Bahrain #Birds Locally numerous breeding male Kentish Plover

#Bahrain #Birds Pair bonding Little Terns

#Bahrain #Birds Clamorous Reed Warbler, a breeding, residential species

#Birds #Bahrain Environmental issues, a consequence of Trump's Gulf war, must now include early departure of 99% of wintering migrant wader species - after 700-plus disruptive intercept explosions, today's migrant wader count was zero, breeding tern count 1 pair Saunders's

#Bahrain #Birds getting out & about has been difficult; however, key species were seen: Lesser Grey Shrike, Roller, Starling, and White-throated Robin. Tiny Bahrain, only 780 sq km, intercepted 97% = 515 Iranian drones and 194 missile attacks, alas also suffering three killed and nearly 50 injured.

#Bahrain #Birds Curlew Sandpipers, won't be long before they depart

#Bahrain #Birds In 1992, only 18 Squacco Herrons were recorded for the year, with none between October and January. Today, the species is now a prolific breeding resident with numbers in the hundreds at a variety of wetland sites.

#Bahrain #Birds A Tree Pipit, a common regular spring passage migrant

#Bahrain #Birds The beauty of spring birds, The Woodchat Shrike :

#$Bahrain #Birds Greater Sand Plover, having been the subject of a recent split, the suggested new name is Desert Sand Plover. A bad choice IMO, it spends 9 months of its life cycle on the coast in places like Bahrain.