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

Teal (Eurasian), Krickente, Anas crecca

From Birds Egypt 2009

From Birds Egypt 2009

Tufted Duck, Reiherente, Aythya fuligula

From Birds Egypt 2010

From Birds Egypt 2010

Beach clean-up, Doha, July 16th

Back from the beach clean-up.
Boy, the wind helped, but it was HOT. (120F/50C)
We had 15 people/Volunteers, not bad.
And collected around 250-300kg of trash, a lot of it will be recycled.

We have been at Doha beach for the 3rd time now and got finally one nasty corner at the fence cleaned up (thanks, Andy and Robert - hope I am not mixing up names). One more clean-up to go next weekend, then's Ramadan break (not allowed to drink water in public = no clean-ups).

Bird count for the day (some more will come tomorrow, when my head works again and I'll be able to look at my books without my head spinning): 1 Cormorant 7 House Sparrows 1 Graceful Prinia (sound) 6 White-eared Bulbuls 4 Kentish Plover 1 Namaqua Dove (1 possible Curlew Sandpiper?)
The tide was out very far & I didn't get very close without getting stuck or chase them away