drrezakhan
31-03-2010, 22:46
I was in the, Mushrif Resreve, pivot field, STP and Naad Al Shiba Pond or Old Car Sale Lake and tried to post information this morning when I was repatedly disallowed to enter into the site.
Now I know Tommy was damn busy updating it.
Thanks a lot Tommy for your effort and patience.
from 10.30am to 1.30pm
Mushrif
1 Red-tailed Rock Thrush
1 Female RW Lawing incubating 3 eggs
1 Southern Grey Shrike eating a fird from its butcher post. Victim is possibly a female sparrow or what, see picture.
4-5 Arabian babbler
Pvt Fld
1 Isabelline, which species?
7 WT Lapwing all in the shed of Washington Palm saplings on way to the Nursery
1 Barn Swallow
STP
500+ Black-headed Gull
50+ Cattle Egret
30 plus Bank Myna and many attending nest in a nearby earth bank cut out to build a new
sewage/Gas tank. They are there for the past 3 years or so.
5 Common Sandpiper
1 Red Shank
6 BW Stilt
6 RW Lapwing
1 Barn Swallow
3 Pallid Swift
NO WT Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, Wagtail, Ruff as there is very little water near sludge/manure drying area where last few years WTL built nests. One pair of RW Lapwing had 2 chicks.
Naad Al Shiba Pond (this is the name in the Dubai Municipality Book)
52 Greater Flamingo, this is the largest count for me
25 Shoveler, mostly males
7 Little Stints
3 Common Sandpiper
8 Ruff
12 Kentish Plover, possibly 2 subspecies, one breeding duller in plumage, another larger and in breeding plumage
4 Little Grebe
30+ BW Stilt
6 RW Lapwing
Now I know Tommy was damn busy updating it.
Thanks a lot Tommy for your effort and patience.
from 10.30am to 1.30pm
Mushrif
1 Red-tailed Rock Thrush
1 Female RW Lawing incubating 3 eggs
1 Southern Grey Shrike eating a fird from its butcher post. Victim is possibly a female sparrow or what, see picture.
4-5 Arabian babbler
Pvt Fld
1 Isabelline, which species?
7 WT Lapwing all in the shed of Washington Palm saplings on way to the Nursery
1 Barn Swallow
STP
500+ Black-headed Gull
50+ Cattle Egret
30 plus Bank Myna and many attending nest in a nearby earth bank cut out to build a new
sewage/Gas tank. They are there for the past 3 years or so.
5 Common Sandpiper
1 Red Shank
6 BW Stilt
6 RW Lapwing
1 Barn Swallow
3 Pallid Swift
NO WT Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, Wagtail, Ruff as there is very little water near sludge/manure drying area where last few years WTL built nests. One pair of RW Lapwing had 2 chicks.
Naad Al Shiba Pond (this is the name in the Dubai Municipality Book)
52 Greater Flamingo, this is the largest count for me
25 Shoveler, mostly males
7 Little Stints
3 Common Sandpiper
8 Ruff
12 Kentish Plover, possibly 2 subspecies, one breeding duller in plumage, another larger and in breeding plumage
4 Little Grebe
30+ BW Stilt
6 RW Lapwing