Pelagic 22 september 2011

[khalifa]

I was in Wamm farms and joined Abdulla this evening to check the pouys hopefully to find something. It was active and nice excluding the terns that floods the place (maybe 300 in total:Common Sounders's bridled mainly):

Arctic skua 4 (one immature please ID it was seen the dark time)
Persian shearwater 30
Red necked phalarope 90
Large white-headed gulls 2 (they were scary to feed in the see)
Brown noddy 3
Putative lesser noddy 1 (check the photo it was feeding with terns the body size was very interesting so that we chased him Plus the white covers more area of head !)


later will add more photos for other species if possible.

Tomorrow i will join you guys 2 PM hope to find new birds....

[MarkS]

Putative lesser noddy.......
Tomorrow i will join you guys 2 PM hope to find new birds....

I'd be quite happy to find your "old" bird. Nice one Khalifa - we may not be going so far out tomorrow.......

[Sandman]

Khalifa. Habibi. I agree with Mark's understatement of the year.


Lesser Noddy Anous tenuirostris
Vagrant.
1. Two Ra’s Dibba 14-23 Sep 1994, one remaining to 14 Oct 1994 (M Fouquet, O Girard et al).
2. One Al Ghurfa Breakwater 18 Jul 2004 (SL James, SJ Aspinall, I Boustead).
3. One Fujairah Port Beach 9-10 Aug 2008 (SL James, T Pedersen); different bird Fujairah Port Beach 10 Aug-24 Oct 2008, with two present 14 Aug-4 Oct 2008 (T Pedersen et al).
4. One Khor Kalba pelagic 22 Sep 2011 (K Al Dhaheri, A Al Zaabi).

[khalifa]

Thanks Mark and Tommy.

Some photos of the Noddy and the skua