drrezakhan
04-12-2010, 21:07
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Pivots on 3<SUP>rd</SUP> December 2010
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I had been to pivot at 6.45 am, moved to STP at 8.50am
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Pivots
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2 northern lapwing
34 WT Lapwing
1 female and 3 males Siberian Stonechat
7 Bluethroat
4 yellow Bishop
6 Streaked Weaver all in winter plumage
4 Isabelline Shrike + 1 in the bird trap
10 Glossy Ibis
1 southern grey shrike
80+ Cattle Egret
6 Common Snipe
15 Little Stints
2 Temminck’s stint
7 LR plover
5 Wood Sandpiper
20+ Water Pipit
8 white wagtail
9 yellow wagtail
2 western march harrier
20 Common Starling
10+ Bank Myna
2 leaf warblers ?moaning calls heard from the largest reed bed
2 Clamorous reed warbler
20+ ruff
3 pin-tailed sandgrouse
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STP
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100+ Pallid Swifts about 200m above the gushing of fire near the egg-like chambers
200+ over the roundish tank churning liquids that breeds millions of midges and other insects. They were hawking for insects and
6 White-winged Terns
1000+ BH gulls started roosting in the empty spaces surrounding those roundish liquid tanks; these number would be over 3000 by mid-december
42 BW Stilts
18 RWLapwing
22 Green Sandiper
4 Wood Sandpiper
15 ruff
15 Common Sandpiper
4 Temminck’s Stint
15 little Stint
6 WT Lapwing
12 Yellow Wagtail
8 White wagtail
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Al Warsun lake
40+ Juvenile Night Heron in the reed-bed of the of the Al Warsun lake facing the northern boundary where there is a dead tree and many rests on it.
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Naad Al Shiba Ponds-3 Old Car showroom
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15 Shoveler
6 Flamingo
15 Ruff
8 common ringed plover
12 LRinged Plover
10 Little Stint
3 Temminck’s Stint
27 BW Stilt
3 greenshank
2 Redshank
18 Kentish Plover
1 Marsh harrier
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Pond 2
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1 Kentish Plover
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Pond 1 behind Shooting club
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10 Black-necked Grebe
1 White/Great Egret
1 reef heron, blue-grey from
+50 released mallards
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Pivots on 3<SUP>rd</SUP> December 2010
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I had been to pivot at 6.45 am, moved to STP at 8.50am
<o:p> </o:p>
Pivots
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2 northern lapwing
34 WT Lapwing
1 female and 3 males Siberian Stonechat
7 Bluethroat
4 yellow Bishop
6 Streaked Weaver all in winter plumage
4 Isabelline Shrike + 1 in the bird trap
10 Glossy Ibis
1 southern grey shrike
80+ Cattle Egret
6 Common Snipe
15 Little Stints
2 Temminck’s stint
7 LR plover
5 Wood Sandpiper
20+ Water Pipit
8 white wagtail
9 yellow wagtail
2 western march harrier
20 Common Starling
10+ Bank Myna
2 leaf warblers ?moaning calls heard from the largest reed bed
2 Clamorous reed warbler
20+ ruff
3 pin-tailed sandgrouse
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STP
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100+ Pallid Swifts about 200m above the gushing of fire near the egg-like chambers
200+ over the roundish tank churning liquids that breeds millions of midges and other insects. They were hawking for insects and
6 White-winged Terns
1000+ BH gulls started roosting in the empty spaces surrounding those roundish liquid tanks; these number would be over 3000 by mid-december
42 BW Stilts
18 RWLapwing
22 Green Sandiper
4 Wood Sandpiper
15 ruff
15 Common Sandpiper
4 Temminck’s Stint
15 little Stint
6 WT Lapwing
12 Yellow Wagtail
8 White wagtail
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Al Warsun lake
40+ Juvenile Night Heron in the reed-bed of the of the Al Warsun lake facing the northern boundary where there is a dead tree and many rests on it.
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Naad Al Shiba Ponds-3 Old Car showroom
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15 Shoveler
6 Flamingo
15 Ruff
8 common ringed plover
12 LRinged Plover
10 Little Stint
3 Temminck’s Stint
27 BW Stilt
3 greenshank
2 Redshank
18 Kentish Plover
1 Marsh harrier
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Pond 2
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1 Kentish Plover
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Pond 1 behind Shooting club
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10 Black-necked Grebe
1 White/Great Egret
1 reef heron, blue-grey from
+50 released mallards
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