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Hi Peter

Pintail Snipe should have similar width of pale edging on both sides of smaller wing feathers. On Common, the edges are broader on the outer web, as in your photo. This feature is...

Maybe Euproctis sp. in Lymantriidae.

Huw

Hi all

Abdulla asked me to send him names for each boat, for coastguard clearance purposes. After consulting a few members of the crew, we decided the best way was to base it on the order in which...

It was still there late afternoon. Good views initially, but still had my lenses in my backpack. No photos unfortunately.

Huw

2pm is the start time on Friday.

Bert, did you find a lift? If so, and you're coming, can you let me know your wife's surname if it's different from yours. Abdulla, our main captain, tells me it's...

1. Huw,
2. Khalifa + 1
4 Simon,
5. Mark,
6.Andrew B,
7. Neil
8. Tommy
9.Stuart B
10. Oscar
11.Steve.

The boat is full now.

Cheers

Huw

HI all

I've checked with Abdulla, and he is available for an afternoon trip on Friday, May 10.

So far the crew is:

1. Huw
2. Khalifa

I've just spoken to Abdulla. We're all set for 2pm tomorrow.

Cheers

Huw

Please what are the coordinates for Maha Forest?

Thanks

Huw

Hi Tommy

Hoping to go there tomorrow. Did you see any Desert Monitors?

The earwig is a male Labidura riparia.

Cheers

Huw

Thanks guys

I've done that for yesterday's Al Qua'a visit.

Cheers

Huw

Hi

There were 9 Whinchats, a Red-backed Shrike, Lesser Grey Shrike and at least 4 subspecies of Yellow Wagtail. Maybe a fifth: a possible white-headed took off before I got a good look at it..
...

It looks like this now.

I tried again today to get photos of it but didn't even see it.

Cheers

Huw

Hi Peter

This is Upcher's Warbler.

I had 12 of these today in Wadi Tarabat and 4 in Green Mubazzarah.

Cheers

Huw

Yes, you're right. Nice one Roland

Huw

For me, Zakher Lake is not an “ecological disaster” in itself. On the contrary, the use of water that is already surplus to requirements to replace the waterholes that naturally existed in these...

There's a follow-up story to the programme here, and a lively debate at the bottom of the page, with 215 comments.

Huw

Hi Peter

I think the fly is a male Actorthia pulchella in Therevidae (Stilletto Flies).

Cheers

Huw

I think it is a sphecid wasp trying to take a prey item to one of its burrows in which it will lay eggs. The hatched wasp larva will then feed on the paralysed caterpillar. :eek:

Hi Priscilla

I'm pretty certain it's Oleander Hawk moth (Daphnis nerii). Very nice.

Huw

No laughing!


http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2013/03/06/inside-middle-east-oman-desert-lake.cnn

Personally, I think Zakher Lake is a very fine place indeed..:D

Huw

Here's the juvenile Steppe Buzzard from today.

No sign of the cranes between 3pm and 6pm today, but there were a few birders on late shift as I left.

Huw

Got the cranes in the end with Khalifa. But had to wait until late afternoon.. after missing them by 5 minutes at about 8.20am, and several hours mostly looking at grasshoppers.

I got some photos...

Hi all

The grasshopper is Schistocerca gregaria (Forsskål, 1775) - Desert Locust.

Cheers

Huw