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End of spring- May 2014

1/6/2014

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At Mid May i guided a 2 day birding tour at some sites such as- Beit shean valley, the carmel coast and jerusalem. On those dates of mid - end of may most of the migrants have allready left, though there are still some left and some of the nesting species, of course, are still noticeable. 
I guided Rachel- an enthusiastic birder from the states. Although she didnt know much of the European and israelis birds, she shortly learned all that needed to be learned.
We had some nice Black francolin, rollers and bee eaters at Beit shean valley, some nice spur winged lapwings and black winged stils chiks at Maagan Michael and a few warblers at jerusalem. We also went to see a colony of lesser kestrels not far from Maagan Michael. All in all , nice birds for those dates.

Bird List for the tour: 

Little Grebe                                                   Black winged stilt

Pygmy  cormorant                                        Stone curlew

Little Bittern                                                  Ringed plover

Night Heron                                                   Spur winged lapwing

Cattle egret                                                    Ruff

Squacco Heron                                              Yellow legged Gull

Little egret                                                      Common Tern
 
Great egret                                                     Collared dove           

Grey Heron                                                     Turtle dove

Purple Heron                                                   Laughing dove     

                                                                                                                                                                 White Stork                                                      Barn swallow

Black Stork                                                       Namaqua Dove

Glossy ibis                                                        Common swift

Mallard                                                             Red rumped swallow

Short toed eagle                                               Blackstart      

Marsh Harrier                                                     Hoopoe

Long legged Buzzard                                         White throated kingfisher              

Common Buzzard                                               Pied kingfisher

Common Kestrel                                                  European Bee eater   

Lesser Kestrel                                                      Little green Bee eater

Black Francolin                                                    European Roller

Chukar                                                                 Rose ringed parakeet                

                                                                                                                                                                    sand   partridge                                                    spectacled Bulbul
  
Common Moorhen                                                Crested Lark

Common Coot                                                       Sand martin


White crowned wheatear

Common Blackbird

Garden warbler

Black cap

Lesser whitethroat

Gracefull prinia

Reed warbler

Great Tit

Masked shrike

Palestine sunbird

Eurasian Jay

Jackdaw

Hooded crow

Brown necked raven

Tristram's starling

Fan tailed raven

House sparrow

Dead sea sparrow

Green finch

Corn bunting

Indian silver bill

Common myna


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Spur- winged lapwing chick. Photo: taken by Rachel.
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