28 northern lapwing for watched 8 minutes

[drrezakhan]

I spotted part of a flock of 28 or 29 Northen lapwing in the ploughed and cleanly levelled lawn grass field in the main pivot of the Pivot Field at 1.58pm. By the time I counted and took few shots they were airborn by 2.06pm.
From the overhead but longdistance shot I could count 28 birds. Possibly 1 was not in the frame or they were just 28.119621196311964

[Clive]

Bloody hell.

[drrezakhan]

just an accident!

[simonpeterlloyd]

Yeah, I saw them around midday flying through the pivots. I thought I was hallucinating at first.

[khalifa]

Nice to see this count for this beautiful bird.
nice photos too. few places to see the northern lapwing in UAE


It migrates mainly by day, often in large flocks

[Sandman]

Just landed from 'a flight from hell', the two words Mach 0.72 and Boeing 777-300ER should NEVER be in the same sentence! Not helping is 'there is a funny smell from one of the IFE units' and 'a passenger was found unconscious in his seat; we'll see if we can revive him'. This makes for an unhappy Cappy.
It's now either very early or very late. Not too early (or late) for a cold Heineken though ;)

So, does Simon & Reza get the honour of sharing the highest count ever in the UAE of this great bird!
I think yes.

Steve & Simon (A) gets second place, Dave Diskin gets third, and who would have thought Wamm Farms would have 6 & 7 birds (Dave Diskin both)??