There weren’t many waders in Mukawa but on the way home the flock of Sanderlings near Oshamanbe was in their usual place.
And the Kentish Plovers from last week were still around.
The way home
Category: Oshamambe
Another plover…
A change from the usual stints and sanderlings….
Some Plovers…
Some plovers were on the beaches yesterday…
More September Stints…
Common and probably to many local birders not very interesting. But I love ’em.
I got this burst lying down on a non-muddy part of the beach.
September Stints
Ubiquitous at this time of year…
Some more common waders
Wader season is in full swing. At the weekend I saw Common Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Terek Sandpiper, lots of Red-necked Stint and these 2 common species…
A hot Sunday afternoon
A hot sunny afternoon: terrible light for photos. Quite a few nice birds around: the above scruffy Stejneger’s Scoter was a surprise. This Marsh Sandpiper was on one of the beaches with some stints…
Other stuff around included flocks of White-throated Needletail and Pacific Swift, Osprey, Peregrine, several Great Egret…
But as I said the light was not helpful.
Stints
Quite a few stints passing through now…
Common spring shorebirds
There were a couple of Turnstones mixed in with all the Grey-tailed Tattlers and Red-necked Stints. The former were very common up and down the coast.
Not really a shorebird but kind of…
A night away
We spent last night camping (well actually we slept in a cabin). There were lots of birds around but not many photos. Most interesting was a Grey Nightjar which was singing all night. Amazingly I saw it fly near our cabin in broad daylight the next morning but of course I didn’t have my camera handy.
Several Jays were around and posed for some photos.
Other stuff at this location included Eurasian Woodcock, Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Siberian Blue Robin, Brown-headed and Japanese Thrush, Eastern Crowned Warbler and Japanese Green Pigeon.
Chestnuts
The ports were full of Chestnut-cheeked Starlings feasting on flies…
A lull
We headed north today but it was a bit quiet. There were a few Buff-bellied Pipits passing through and a couple of Red-necked Stints in summer plumage. But not much else…
