Beach morning at Mahboula, January 18th 2012

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Didn't walk much this morning, just stayed at one spot,

let the dogs swim (High tide - yippieh)

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and enjoy the cool air with nice sunshine.

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Hope you enjoy it too ;-)

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Some idiots did drive their car around and many more left their trash behind. But that's Kuwait,...

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Some odd colours on the horizon, usually a sign for dust coming (so it was, just 3 days later and just a little bit. )

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Some Barn Swallows made a brief appearance

Barn Swallow

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And the Black-headed Gulls seem to start a change of plumage

Black-headed Gull

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And some don't...

Black-headed Gull

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Black-headed Gull

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Caught one first winter Black-headed Gull too. I was a bit irritated at the black tail line and had to look it up :)

Black-headed Gull 1st winter

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And my favorite of the day - shot this way by accident though :)

Black-headed Gull and the moon

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Beach Bird morning

Spent some time at the beach this morning. Nice bird flybys and nice sunrise

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I watched a family of Common Mynas take a McD breakfast and sip some water – at least trash and Leftovers seem to be good for some and something, sometimes.

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King won a fight with a stray who wanted to show his female companions who’s the owner of the beach. No dogs got harmed & they went back to their own stretch after a while.

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Birdcount: 64 Greater Cormorants, 75 Black-headed Gulls, 1 Grey Heron, 5 Common Myna, 2 Greater Sand Plover, 1 Kentish Plover, 3 White Wagtails, 9 Yellow Wagtails, 1 Northern Wheatear, 15 Slender-billed and one possible Caspian or Heuglin’s Gull, 1 White-eared Bulbul, 23 House Sparrows on my way home 2 Rose-ringed Parakeet

Yesterdays birds

Great Cormorant, Kormoran, Phalacrocorax carbo

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The weather is absolutely great right now, not too hot during the day and cool, almost chilly in the mornings.

I have spent 3 hours each day for the last 3 days at the beach, collecting sea glass.

Great Cormorant, Kormoran, Phalacrocorax carbo

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I didn’t carry my camera with me and 2 days ago, I paid for it 

My friend, the Parakeet flew around in front of my nose and sat down on a powerline in plain sight. Right. Thanks 

Grey Plover (Black-bellied Plover), Kiebitzregenpfeifer, Pluvialis squatarola

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So, yesterday, I took the cam with me and got some shots, nothing great and no Parakeet, of course.

Common Sandpiper, Flussuferläufer, Actitis hypoleucos

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The loss of my data, including the gallery irks me in ways that just now surface. Birds I take photos of and can’t find in the Collins, but I know I have seen & shot them before…. I can’t go to my gallery and look them up. 

Like this fellow, he looks familiar, but I can’t place him (thanks to the Birdforum guys I know now it’s a Redshank, sigh  My first for Kuwait, but I’ve seen him in Egypt).

Common Redshank, Rotschenkel, Tringa totanus - seen in Abu Halifa

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The task of adding all the posts, Infos and photos back here is huge. It will take me a long while, I guess.

Black-headed Gull, Lachmöwe, Larus ridibundus

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I am sad that I lost all the Infos I collected, about parks and birds and also the Infos I had for birders that want to go to Sharm el Sheikh or come here. Maybe I’ll manage to get it all back together, but it’s a daunting task.

Ringed Plover, Sandregenpfeifer, Charadrius dubius

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