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May 16, 2008
18:31
Migration nearly over
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The number of birds and species passing at Badaan Farm has slowed to a crawl - a few surprises in what's been turning up but nothing really exceptional. Collared Pratincoles, Yellow Wagtails, Winchats, Ortolan Buntings, Willow and Reed Warblers and the odd Red-throated Pipit all put in a show. The only Shrike seen today was an Isabelline who kept company with a few swallows and Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters. Gone are the Kestrels but hanging on are a Great White Egret, Little Egret and a Purple Heron...

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May 09, 2008
0:24
strange week
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Just an update on whats been happening Here- May 1st - A Stonecurlew with 2 chicks was observed between Al Jazair beach and the horse endurance center. This represents a first breeding record for this species if confirmed. Observer a Falconer caught and examined one of the chicks before returning it to waiting parent. May 7th - A Corncrake was reported at Anwaj Islands - this observation has some quality as the observer not a birder is familiar with the species in Ireland - last record...

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May 06, 2008
9:43
a short afternoon
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We did some ringing this afternoon so this meant that time for actual birding was minimal however of the birds around, the ones of note were the Blue-cheeked and European Bea-eaters Swallows and Swifts that continue to pass through. The Purple Heron all four remain, the Yellow Wagtails and Ortolan Buntings a stream that never seems to end and the dozens of warblers of various species now found throughout the farm. Another Scops owl was seen along with numerous Nightingales and Pratincoles. The...

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May 04, 2008
15:12
Saturday - dull but an improvement on yesterday
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Overcast and windy but still with a heavy haze from the dust - lingering on. Spent some time down on Tubli Bay in the morning to see what was around - still plenty of waders but tern numbers collecting prior to breeding are increasing daily - Lesser Crested, Saunder's, White-cheeked and the odd Gull-billed - these together with good numbers of Caspian Terns (winter breeding) and Slender-billed Gulls now out number wading species. A few hundred Flamingos for which we have no breeding records...

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May 01, 2008
17:30
More sand but hot and muggy
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Horrible weather yet again no wind but sand drifting down covering everything with a fine powder including the camera which I now have to get cleaned. Not a single Yellow wagtail remains but four Lesser Kestrel are still hunting the fields. Lesser, Masked, Isabelline Red-backed and Grey Shrike are now faily common. Spotted Flycatchers the odd Wheatear Roller and Bee-eater along with a variety of Warblers continue to be seen along with both Thrush Nightingale and Nightingales. A few Ortolans and...

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April 25, 2008
21:27
The weather has become suddenly hot and ...
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The weather has become suddenly hot and so has the migration through our neck of the woods. A busy week watching to see whats passing some things are still hard to find like Warblers but otherwise numbers are good for some species. Ortalan Bunting, Wheatears, Shrikes, Pratincoles, Nightingale, White-throated Robins, Red-Pipits Throated Pipits, Rollers Lesser Kestrel Bee-eaters, Swallows, are more numerous this year than in previous. Out numbering all must be the Yellow Wagtails they are...

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April 18, 2008
20:37
horrible day
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Have been in the UK for a few weeks - after I had return my house was burgled - the bast---ds stole my laptop some camera kit my satellite decorder plus a host of other things but the worst was the fact that they stripped the house of its copper water pipe leaving me with a flood. To make matters worse today the first day that I could get out since returning yet another dust storm blew up cutting vis down to around 500 mts. Anyhow birds continue to pass -these last few weeks its been Buntings...

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March 30, 2008
22:05
an odd weekend
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Friday was dull and gloomy with a thick dust haze while Saturday bright and sunny - Still slow in terms of species and numbers turning up, the weekend was notable not for the first collared Pratincole more Yellow Wagtails, Pied Wheatears or Woodchat Shrikes but for an end of day spectacle put on over head by over three hundred House Martins three Swifts and a few swallows. Impossible to photograph, we had set up a net in a vain hope of catching some based on a tape lure - the flock whirled...

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March 16, 2008
21:48
an odd weekend
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Friday was dull and gloomy with a thick dust haze while Saturday bright and sunny - Still slow in terms of species and numbers turning up, the weekend was notable not for the first collared Pratincole more Yellow Wagtails, Pied Wheatears or Woodchat Shrikes but for an end of day spectacle put on over head by over three hundred House Martins three Swifts and a few swallows. Impossible to photograph, we had set up a net in a vain hope of catching some based on a tape lure - the flock whirled...

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March 09, 2008
16:22
Observations from Saeed Abdulla Al Khuzai
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27 February 2008 Mallards 9 (1 male, 8 Females) Tubli near sewage outfall. Woodchat shrike 1 sakhir near oil museum Desert wheatear 2 males near Jabal Isabelline shrike 3 adults near Janusan Great Black headed Gull 5 Janusan coast 6 March 2008 Bluethroat 1 male Adhari Area 18 February (Hawar island) Still thousands of socotra cormorant present, not counted. Saeed Abdulla Al Khuzai

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