Showing posts with label Great Cormorant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Cormorant. Show all posts

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Great Cormorant, Kormoran, Phalacrocorax carbo

Seen in Kuwait 2010 and 2011

Did you know that Cormorants fly in formation?
I mean, not the loooong straight line you usually see.

From Birds Kuwait 2010

Nope. V-formations. Seen them only once like that.

From Birds Kuwait 2011

A Juv. enjoying the company of some Black-headed Gulls

From Birds Kuwait 2011
One in flight

From Birds Kuwait 2011

And most of you remember my all time favorite, I guess ;-)

From Birds Kuwait 2011

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Beach Bird morning



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


From Birds Kuwait 2011

From Birds Kuwait 2011


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.


From Birds Kuwait 2011



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.


From The kids
From Birds Kuwait 2011

From Kuwait

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



Sunday, November 21, 2010

Yesterdays birds


Great Cormorant, Kormoran, Phalacrocorax carbo
From Birds Kuwait 2010
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
From Birds Kuwait 2010
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
From Birds Kuwait 2010

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

Common Sandpiper, Flussuferläufer, Actitis hypoleucos
From Birds Kuwait 2010
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
From Birds Kuwait 2010
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
From Birds Kuwait 2010

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
From Birds Kuwait 2010