My last weekend's birding of this year before I head down to SA for my long overdue summer holiday. I spent a few hours at JPR in the afternoon trying to re-locate the Waterhen, White-tailed Eagle and interesting Martins seen by visiting birders earlier in the week, without success.
Nevertheless, it is still a reserve to be enjoyed and there were still good numbers of Greater Spotted coming in to roost for the night.
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| Greater Spotted Eagle (Aquila clanga) |
The Western Osprey is still here and has been present for a couple of weeks now
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| Western Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) |
I was surprised how few Water Pipit's there were
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| Caucasian Water Pipit (Anthus s. coutelli) |
I had one White-winged Tern over the big pool
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| White-winged Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus) |
and down at the beach, a few Eurasian Curlews in the inter-tidal zones. These had really long bills, so possibly orientalis
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| Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata orientalis) |
Checking the skies for any Hirundines, I had two Barn Swallow and plenty of Pallid Swifts
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| Pallid Swift (Apus pallidus) |
Got a bit creative with the back and rim lighting on the reeds, as the sun slipped to the horizon
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| Backlit Phragmite Reeds |
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| Sunset over Jahra |
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