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28 Apr 2015
Curlew Sandpiper (partial summer plumage)
28 Apr 2015
28 Apr 2015
28 Apr 2015
26 Apr 2015
Whinchat (female)
26 Apr 2015
Whinchat (male)
25 Apr 2015
25 Apr 2015
24 Apr 2015
18 Mar 2015
18 Mar 2015
18 Mar 2015
15 Mar 2015
05 Mar 2015
05 Mar 2015
Black Guillemot (check Isle of Man home page for more Black Guillemot images)
05 Mar 2015
26 Feb 2015
24 Feb 2015
Jackdaw with some characters of 'Nordic' race
24 Feb 2015
Glaucous Gull (2nd winter)
Catching up on last autumn...
28 Oct 2014
27 Oct 2014
27 Oct 2014
26 Oct 2014
Ring-necked Duck (1st winter)
25 Oct 2014
23 Oct 2014
23 Oct 2014
Red-breasted Flycatcher (sporting adult-type plumage)
21 Oct 2014
Ring Ouzel (male)
19 Oct 2014
23 Feb 2015
Rock Pipit (with normal, uncoloured underparts)
23 Feb 2015
Rock Pipit (with buffy-orange flush to underparts)
21 Feb 2015
Red-throated Diver (winter plumage)
14 Feb 2015
13 Feb 2015
13 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015
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Iceland Gull, probably kumlieni (2nd winter)
10 Feb 2015
Glaucous Gull (2nd winter)
07 Feb 2015
05 Feb 2015
05 Feb 2015
04 Feb 2015
04 Feb 2015
04 Feb 2015
24 Jan 2015
24 Jan 2015
Jackdaw (possibly of the 'Nordic' form monedula)
24 Jan 2015
24 Jan 2015
24 Jan 2015
Goosander (female)
24 Jan 2015
Goosander (male)
21 Jan 2015
 
19 Jan 2015
19 Jan 2015
19 Jan 2015
29 Dec 2014
29 Dec 2014
29 Dec 2014
29 Dec 2014
02 Dec 2014
02 Dec 2014
02 Dec 2014
02 Dec 2014
30 Nov 2014
20 Nov 2014
14 Nov 2014
14 Nov 2014
14 Nov 2014
10 Nov 2014
06 Nov 2014
02 Nov 2014
02 Nov 2014
09 Oct 2014
09 Oct 2014
11 Sep 2014
08 Sep 2014
08 Sep 2014
08 Sep 2014
04 Sep 2014
03 Sep 2014
03 Sep 2014
31 Aug 2014
 
After two fantastic years in Qatar, we have moved to the Isle of Man.
 
10 Apr 2013
Sterna Tern sp. (salvaged from my photos from last year, tentatively identified as Common, but opinions welcome)
25 Jun 2014
22 Jun 2014
Egyptian Nightjar (returning post-breeding adult?)
21 Jun 2014
Striated Heron (one of 2 juveniles among 21 birds this morning)
21 Jun 2014
18 Jun 2014
Little Ringed Plover (two juveniles)
18 Jun 2014
18 Jun 2014
18 Jun 2014
Purple Heron (local juvenile)
18 Jun 2014
Greater Spotted Eagle (non-breeding second calendar year)
14 Jun 2014
Sooty Falcon (perched and distant flying adult)
14 Jun 2014
Socotra Cormorant (gathered on the rocks)
14 Jun 2014
14 Jun 2014
Collared Pratincole (juvenile, representing only the third breeding record for Qatar)
14 Jun 2014
Ferruginous Duck (juveniles)
14 Jun 2014
Lesser Emperor (dragonfly)
12 Jun 2014
Broad Scarlet (dragonfly)
12 Jun 2014
Black Penant (dragonfly)
27 May 2014
Lesser Crested Tern (beautifully close, but sadly ailing)
27 May 2014
Little Tern (nice clear-cut individual sitting very close on the beach at high tide)
27 May 2014
27 May 2014
27 May 2014
Lesser Short-toed Lark (third confirmed breeding record)
27 May 2014
Cream-coloured Courser ('massing' on the coast in the cool of the mangroves)
21 May 2014
21 May 2014
Greater Sandplovers compared (two different taxa?)
21 May 2014
21 May 2014
18 May 2104
18 May 2104
18 May 2104
18 May 2104
Blue-headed Wagtail (with a touch of Syke's)
18 May 2104
18 May 2104
18 May 2014
Black-eared Kite (one of three this morning heading north up the peninsula)
15 May 2014
15 May 2014
15 May 2014
15 May 2014
15 May 2014
13 May 2014
13 May 2014
13 May 2014
13 May 2014
13 May 2014
13 May 2014
13 May 2014
13 May 2014
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Crested Honey Buzzard (first for Qatar, adult female)
11 May 2014
Crowned Crane (distant flock of free-flying birds)
11 May 2014
Common Whitethroat (male of the icterops race)
11 May 2014
Lesser Grey Shrike (one of 18 seen today, along with more than 40 Red-backed Shrikes)
11 May 2014
Whinchat (male)
11 May 2014
11 May 2014
11 May 2014
White-cheeked Tern (sky-dancing pair)
11 May 2014
Marsh Warbler (on the lawn)
11 May 2014
Golden Oriole (male, distant)
11 May 2014
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Icterine Warbler (third Qatar record lingering from the weekend)
11 May 2014
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Corncrake (most likely the lingering individual from the weekend)
11 May 2014
11 May 2014
Lesser Short-toed Lark (second confirmed breeding record)
09 May 2014
Little Bittern (distant female migrating north along the coast)
09 May 2014
09 May 2014
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Corncrake (in the park, and a long-awaited lifer!)
09 May 2014
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07 May 2014
07 May 2014
Striated Heron (displaying a striking mohican)
07 May 2014
07 May 2014
07 May 2014
07 May 2014
Eastern Nightingale (surely, a future split - or have I said that already!?)
07 May 2014
07 May 2014
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07 May 2014
07 May 2014
07 May 2014
07 May 2014
07 May 2014
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Black-eared Kite (showing six long fingers)
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
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Thrush Nightingale (seven Qatar record, and the first of 'the invasion')
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
Cattle Egret (showing orange crown, mantle and breast of summer plumage)
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
Golden Oriole (distant uncooperative male)
05 May 2014
Ortolan Bunting (female)
05 May 2014
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Garden Warbler (sixth Qatar record; oh so 'borin'!)
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
Turkestan Shrike (male; one of six Shrike species seen today, seven if you include this hyrbid)
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
Marsh Warbler (one of more than twenty today)
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
05 May 2014
01 May 2014
Lesser Kestrel (adult pair)
01 May 2014
Marsh Warbler (audio of more than twenty-five individuals actively calling in a single tree!)
01 May 2014
Marsh Warbler (one of more than forty seen today!)
01 May 2014
01 May 2014
Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush (summer-plumaged male)
01 May 2014
Golden Oriole (snatched fuzzy record shot of a fleeting adult male)
01 May 2014
Grey-headed Wagtail (adult male)
30 Apr 2014
30 Apr 2014
Sanderling (partially summer-plumaged)
30 Apr 2014
Grey Plover (distant, summer plumage)
30 Apr 2014
Eurasian Whimbrel (resting group)
30 Apr 2014
Lesser Sandplover (distant, summer plumage)
30 Apr 2014
Ruddy Turnstone (summer plumaged adult)
30 Apr 2014
30 Apr 2014
Little Bittern (adult male)
30 Apr 2014
Curlew Sandpiper (gorgeous summer-plumaged adult)
29 Apr 2014
Socotra Cormorant (huge feeding flock)
29 Apr 2014
29 Apr 2014
29 Apr 2014
28 Apr 2014
28 Apr 2014
26 Apr 2014
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Arctic Skua (adult-type pale phase)
26 Apr 2014
20 Apr 2014
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Kumlien's Gull (long-staying, now second calendar year)
18 Apr 2014
Scandinavian Rock Pipit (showing summer hues of greyish and pink)
18 Apr 2014
18 Apr 2014
Brambling (fuzzy pic of a late male)
09 Apr 2014
Common Redstart (female)
09 Apr 2014
  Eastern Nightingale
09 Apr 2014
  Wood Sandpiper
09 Apr 2014
  Western Black-headed Wagtail
09 Apr 2014
  Terek Sandpiper
03 Apr 2014
03 Apr 2014
03 Apr 2014
Yellow Wagtail (presumed male beema x feldegg?!)
03 Apr 2014
03 Apr 2014
03 Apr 2014
Common Redstart (male of the western form)
03 Apr 2014
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03 Apr 2014
03 Apr 2014
Turkestan x Red-backed Shrike (presumed hybrid )
03 Apr 2014
Collared Pratincole (couldn't get any closer)
03 Apr 2014
Western Siberian Stonechat (first summer male)
03 Apr 2014
03 Apr 2014
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear (smart male black-throated form)
03 Apr 2014
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Eurasian Crag Martin (very poor record images of this rarity)
03 Apr 2014
Barred Warbler (spanker!)
03 Apr 2014
Common Redstart (female)
03 Apr 2014
03 Apr 2014
03 Apr 2014
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02 Apr 2014
Pallid Harrier (juvenile female)
02 Apr 2014
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02 Apr 2014
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Desert Whitethroat (another very pale halimodendri-type)
02 Apr 2014
European Bee-eater (arriving at last)
02 Apr 2014
Fat-tailed Scorpion (dangerous fella, this one!)
01 Apr 2014
01 Apr 2014
01 Apr 2014
01 Apr 2014
01 Apr 2014
01 Apr 2014
01 Apr 2014
01 Apr 2014
01 Apr 2014
01 Apr 2014
01 Apr 2014
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01 Apr 2014
01 Apr 2014
Lesser Whitethroat (dark morph)
01 Apr 2014
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31 Mar 2014
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Black Scrub Robin (about the tenth Qatar record)
31 Mar 2014
Turkestan Shrike (with apricot wash on underparts)
31 Mar 2014
Menetries's Warbler (female in the shadows)
29 Mar 2014
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Richard's Pipit (fourth or fifth Qatar record)
26 Mar 2014
26 Mar 2014
26 Mar 2014
Common (?) Quail - presumed male with fully chestnut face
26 Mar 2014
26 Mar 2014
Barn Swallows - white and orange forms
26 Mar 2014
26 Mar 2014
26 Mar 2014
Pallid Harrier (near-adult male)
26 Mar 2014
Pallid Harrier (sub-adult male)
26 Mar 2014
Pallid Harrier (juvenile)
26 Mar 2014
25 Mar 2014
Pallid Harrier (sub-adult male)
25 Mar 2014
Pallid Harrier (sub-adult female)
25 Mar 2014
25 Mar 2014
Pallid Harrier (adult male)
25 Mar 2014
25 Mar 2014
25 Mar 2014
25 Mar 2014
Pallid Harrier (juvenile male)
25 Mar 2014
25 Mar 2014
25 Mar 2014
25 Mar 2014
25 Mar 2014
24 Mar 2014
Swift Tern (courting pair)
24 Mar 2014
23 Mar 2014
23 Mar 2014
23 Mar 2014
22 Mar 2014
22 Mar 2014
22 Mar 2014
Willow Warbler (distant!)
22 Mar 2014
22 Mar 2014
22 Mar 2014
Common Redstart (samamisicus)
22 Mar 2014
22 Mar 2014
Lesser Whitethroat (putative blythi type)
22 Mar 2014
Chiffchaff (with long primary extension)
22 Mar 2014
Tawny Pipit (colourful juvenile)
22 Mar 2014
22 Mar 2014
22 Mar 2014
22 Mar 2014
22 Mar 2014
Putative Eastern Black-headed Wagtail (melanogrisea)
19 Mar 2014
Namaqua Dove (first-summer male)
19 Mar 2014
19 Mar 2014
19 Mar 2014
19 Mar 2014
Collared Pratincole (a real performer)
19 Mar 2014
Common Redstart (male samamisicus)
18 Mar 2014
18 Mar 2014
Pin-tailed Whydah (non-breeding male)
18 Mar 2014
18 Mar 2014
Siberian Stonechat (male maura)
18 Mar 2014
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18 Mar 2014
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17 Mar 2014
17 Mar 2014
Pied Wheatear (male vittata)
17 Mar 2014
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear (male of the black-throated form)
17 Mar 2014
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear (male of the black-throated form)
17 Mar 2014
Isabelline Wheatear (grey-backed individual)
17 Mar 2014
17 Mar 2014
17 Mar 2014
17 Mar 2014
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear (male of the black-throated form)
17 Mar 2014
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Putative Hume's Warbler (althaea or possibly caucasica)
17 Mar 2014
Common Chiffchaff (race collibyta/brevirostris)
17 Mar 2014
Northern Chiffchaff (race abietinus)
17 Mar 2014
Northern Chiffchaff (race abietinus)
17 Mar 2014
Northern Chiffchaff (race abietinus)
17 Mar 2014
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Siberian Chiffchaff (race tristis)
17 Mar 2014
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Siberian Chiffchaff (race tristis)
17 Mar 2014
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear (probable first summer male of the black-throated form)
17 Mar 2014
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear (male of the black-eared form)
17 Mar 2014
Red-wattled Lapwing (with gunshot injuries)
17 Mar 2014
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17 Mar 2014
Cinereous Bunting (gorgeous semenowi)
16 Mar 2014
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Caspian Plover (summer-plumaged male in the heat haze)
16 Mar 2014
Red Thumb (parasitic plant)
16 Mar 2014
Turtle sp. (carcas on the beach)
15 Mar 2014
15 Mar 2014
Little Stint (with pale legs)
15 Mar 2014
14 Mar 2014
Menetries's Warbler (male of the race mystacea)
14 Mar 2014
14 Mar 2014
Common Redstart (male still wearing through into full summer plumage)
14 Mar 2014
Meadpw Pipit (my first in Qatar)
08 Mar 2014
Greater Sandplover (showing intense summer plumage)
06 Mar 2014
06 Mar 2014
06 Mar 2014
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Richard's Pipit (fourth record for Qatar)
06 Mar 2014
Turkestan Shrike (karelini type)
03 Mar 2014
03 Mar 2014
03 Mar 2014
03 Mar 2014
03 Mar 2014
27 Feb 2014
27 Feb 2014
27 Feb 2014
27 Feb 2014
25 Feb 2014
25 Feb 2014
25 Feb 2014
Great Black-headed Gull (third calendar year)
25 Feb 2014
Great Black-headed Gull (second calendar year)
25 Feb 2014
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Baltic Gull (second calendar year)
23 Feb 2014
23 Feb 2014
23 Feb 2014
23 Feb 2014
23 Feb 2014
23 Feb 2014
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23 Feb 2014
23 Feb 2014
23 Feb 2014
23 Feb 2014
23 Feb 2014
23 Feb 2014
22 Feb 2014
21 Feb 2014
Squacco Heron (with Indian Pond type loral markings)
21 Feb 2014
21 Feb 2014
21 Feb 2014
19 Feb 2014
19 Feb 2014
19 Feb 2014
Great Black-headed Gull (loafing summer-plumaged adults)
19 Feb 2014
19 Feb 2014
19 Feb 2014
19 Feb 2014
18 Feb 2014
18 Feb 2014
18 Feb 2014
18 Feb 2014
18 Feb 2014
18 Feb 2014
18 Feb 2014
18 Feb 2014
18 Feb 2014
18 Feb 2014
29 Jan 2014
29 Jan 2014
29 Jan 2014
29 Jan 2014
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Intermediate Egret (first for Qatar still present)
29 Jan 2014
29 Jan 2014
25 Jan 2014
  
24 Jan 2014
  
24 Jan 2014
 
23 Jan 2014
  
23 Jan 2014
  
23 Jan 2014
 
22 Jan 2014
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22 Jan 2014
  
22 Jan 2014
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Intermediate Egret (1st Qatar record, 4th for Gulf region)
20 Jan 2014
  
20 Jan 2014
  
20 Jan 2014
  
20 Jan 2014
 
17 Jan 2014
 
17 Jan 2014
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Great Knot (2nd Qatar record)
16 Jan 2014
 
14 Jan 2014
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To be added ...
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