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Watching Shorebirds in Chomes when Birding Costa Rica
The mountainous country of Costa Rica is better known for its wealth of hummingbirds, highland endemics shared with Panama, and rainforest species rather than shorebirds but waders certainly do find...
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Fort De Soto, 4/21/2013
My father and I had a fantastic time at Fort De Soto this morning. We went hoping for some nice migrants, and we came home with twelve species of warbler, including my first Black-throated Green....
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Up and down and again…
This Spring is surely the one to be reminded as one of the least stable migration we had for years down in the Arava. While some morning start in full swing and there seems to be birds on every bush...
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Whimbrel
A little while ago at Fort De Soto I found a couple Whimbrels, and one was pretty cooperative. It landed in front of me for just a few seconds, and then took flight. The photos of the Whimbrel in...
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Bar-tailed Godwits in various plumages – Dhahran Expro Wader Roost.
Another early morning trip to Dhahran Expro Wader Roost, arriving just before high tide, produced the first returning Broad-billed Sandpipers of the autumn. Three birds were present but remained at...
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Rare white-throated needletail killed by wind turbine
Hundreds of twitchers travelled the length of the country to see the “bird of the century” – only for it to fly into a wind turbine and die. Bird-spotters were ecstatic about the first UK sighting of...
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August Migrant Shorebirds
I visited Daijyugarami, Saga prefecture, last Friday to see what birds had started migrating through. The highlights were a solitary juvenile Asian Dowitcher, a Long-billed Dowitcher in breeding...
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More migrants – Sabkhat Al Fasl
Last weekend’s birding at Sabkhat Al Fasl produced a few different migrants to the birds seen in previous weeks. Most birds were similar with waders being common even though numbers had dropped...
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Lesser Sand Plover numbers increasing – Dammam/Al Khobar Wader Roost South
Development of the Dammam/AlKhobar Wader Roost South is still on going, with tarmac being laid along some of the high bunds. It will not be too long now before full-scale house building starts and...
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Eight Crab Plovers – Dammam Al Khobar Wader Roost south
A 05:00 hrs trip to Dammam Al Khobar Wader Roost south to catch the high tide proved quite successful. The tide was well in and all the birds had been pushed up onto the newly made sand banks and...
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Plenty of waders – Dhahran Expro Wader Roost
A trip to the Dhahran Expro Wader Roost produced plenty of waders of a good variety of species. The tide was not ideal but plenty of birds were along the edges including both Lesser and Greater Sand...
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Rain and Dotterel
As Hannibal Smith was prone to say: I love it when a plan comes together. We haven’t had rain for over a week and none is forecast for the coming week either but overcast skies and the chance of...
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Pennington Marsh – 13th May
Another morning at Pennington Marshes was needed and I was on site by 06:00. It was remarkably cold for this late in the year with a north-easterly wind blowing and so I set off with fleece and gloves....
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Alaska – 8th June (Day 12)
Today was a key day in the Nome section of the trip with one of the star birds to see. We were up early and headed up the Kougarok Road to Mile Post 72 we arrived at around 06:00. This site is known as...
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6th and 13th August – Pennington Marsh
A free Saturday morning on 6th August and I couldn’t resist the pull of Pennington Marsh but a few beers the night before meant a slightly later start so I wasn’t in the car park at Lower Pennington...
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Whimbrel At Carlos Pointe: Part I
Although there was a very welcome breeze at dawn on the morning of 11 August, I was not prepared to walk miles from Carlos Pointe at Big Carlos Pass along Little Estero Lagoon with the temperature...
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Whimbrel At Carlos Pointe: Part II
The Whimbrel that had been reported daily at Carlos Pointe for nearly a week prior to my visit was of course not guaranteed to be there. The Whimbrel was difficult to identify as it was found to be...
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Baird’s Sandpiper at Reculver
We decided on a trip to Reculver this morning despite knowing we could encounter trouble with the M20 being closed. We set off at 5am and arrived at Reculver towers around 6.30am. With a pound in the...
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Curlews in crisis?
To the layman, the curlews are a shy, unassuming family of birds. Their mottled-brown plumage makes for effective camouflage against their marshland and mudflat feeding grounds, meaning they can go...
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Mongolia – 18th May (Day 11) – Barig Mountain to Sangiin Dalai Lake
We were up at 05:15 to the sound of screaming Saker Falcon, packed our bags and after a quick coffee headed back up Barig Mountain at 06:00 for a last try for Hodgson’s Bush-chat. After climbing the...
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