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| Little Bittern |
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| Little Bittern |
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| Little Bittern |
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| Graceful Prinia |
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| Graceful Prinia |
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| Clamorous Reed Warbler |
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| Clamorous Reed Warbler |
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| Clamorous Reed Warbler |
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20 October 2012
Ringing at Alba Marsh - Bahrain
Nicole and
I went ringing again at Alba Marsh on Friday Morning leaving Dhahran at 04:30
hrs to get to Alba for first light. It is proving to be a good time to go as
the causeway to Bahrain is quiet at this time and when we come back at around
11:00 hrs it is also not very busy. This makes life a lot more pleasant than
getting stuck in the traffic as I often did when coming back in the evening.
Nicole is going to be buying some new nets but in the meantime we are using the
four nets Brendan left behind for us when he went back to Ireland. We set all
four nets in similar places to last weekend with one positioned changed to a
location where we used to have it at the start of the year. Our normal two nets
caught all the birds this time and numbers were down compared to the last two
trips with only six birds trapped and ringed. Two were recaptures, both ringed
at the same site previously, with one a Graceful Prinia from 26th
August 2011, which was my first Graceful Prinia ringed and so I was happy to
see it still doing well. The other was a re-trapped Savi’s Warbler, which we
caught last week in the same place. We also ringed two Clamorous Reed Warblers,
Great Reed Warbler and an immature male Little Bittern. The Little Bittern is
only the third one we have caught at the site so was a good bird for us.