#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.

#Bahrain #Birds Black-headed Wagtail

#Bahrain #Birds today no peace at all. As the Holy month of Ramadan came to a close, we were subjected to a massive air raid. Outcome unknown? The building I live in trembled during the numerous blasts. Bahrain fits into an area smaller than metropolitan London, a threat to whom, so WHY

#Bahrain #Birds Citrene Wagtail among the many wagtails currently on passage northwards

#Bahrain #Birds You can always tell when spring has arrived by the birds that you see. Blue Rock Thrush

#Bahrain #Bird At the moment, birding is difficult to say the least, with 288 missiles and drone interceptions. The stories of the ones that hit and exploded on this tiny island, beyond the pale. Was out this morning 5 enormous bangs overhead startled the birds as usual among them a Willow Warbler

#Bahrain #Birds Baltic Gull, quite a few around on most beaches. So dark compared to all the many other types thay are easy to spot

A Clark's Grebe paddling right to left of frame in calm water which looks black due to a dark boat reflection that the grebe is sitting in. Strking red eye is visible, as are the feet at the back and the orange/yellow pointed bill.

The photogenic Clark's Grebe from yesterday also gave me a #SideProfile, just before turning a little towards me, so today's #BirdoftheDay gets the same bird. #Birds #ECK 🪶

From Costa Rica for #BirdsSeenIn2026

#Bahrain #Birds today, we have seen a flurry of reports of Redstarts. The ring was attached here

#Bahrain #Birds first Common Whitethroat of the spring passage recorded today

#Bahrain #Birds First returning Chiffchaff this spring recorded

Today’s #BirdoftheDay is #PrimaryColours and mine are yellow! A White-throated Sparrow and Horned Lark. I’ve been trying for a while to get a photo of the Lark’s “horns!”

According to Min of Interior, no injuries from the missile strikes, but since the initial attacks, over 25 other booms and bangs have been heard, 5 within the last 10 mins to my north

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#Bahrain #Birds My first intended weekend birding after returning was spoiled by the soggy orange baffoon. I shall also share the view from my window an hour ago, after one of the previous barrages had put a big hole in the US Navy base in Bahrain. Centre/Featured species is a Broad-billed Sandpiper

I am currently at home in the UK after the sudden death of a close family member - I SHALL RETURN to Bahrain after the funeral, but until then will not be posting anything in the meantime.

Masked shrike

An unusual picture of a Redshank

The annual post-breeding moult of a shorebird lasts about three months - that's as long as a successful breeding season.
Monitoring moult using digital cameras: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
#ornithology

#Bahrain #Birds #Hawar currently around the Hawar archipelago, over twenty pairs of Osprey are breeding. Last year, we fitted three of the chicks with satellite tags. One chick met a short end, being electrocuted in Saudi Arabia. The other two are well-spaced out but remain within the Gulf.

always a possibility however would be a first for the Gulf

#Bahrain #Birds I DO NOT KNOW what this is, it looks more like some experiment gone wrong, but certainly a duck.. Seen at the max of my 600mm lens through a chain link fence, suggestions as to species, singular or plural, most welcome

#Bahrain #Birds Black-winged Kite, in a matter of years, a species that has moved from being a vagrant to a regular winter visitor, two have already been observed so far this month.

#Bahrain #Birds a regular winter visitor, the Northern Lapwing