Golf course sightings, Sharm el Sheikh (1 Viewer)

Bird count for today (6.15am to 10am / sunny, no wind):

4 Squacco Heron (the most I’ve ever seen in one place)
2 Cattle Egret, 3 Little Egret
7 Collared Pratincole
Lots of Spur-winged Plover / Lapwing
Lots of Black-winged Stilt (incl. 1 one-legged one)
White, yellow, grey & black-headed yellow wagtails
1 Purple Heron
4 Greenshank (incl. the 1 legged one that’s around since a few months)
8 Little Stilt
a flock of yet to be IDed small brown Larks
3 Crested Lark
4 Gulls yet to be IDed
2 Little Gull
2 Hoopoe
8+ Common Kestrel
and a flock with 8 Night Herons

Night Heron pics can be found on my blog if you care
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Bird Count for the Jolie ville golf course in March:

5th

1 Wigeon
8 Coot
various Swifts and Swallows
White wagtails
Red - and Greenshanks
Flock of Spur winged Plovers
3 Grey Heron
1 Squacco Heron
Flocks of House Sparrows
some small yet to be IDed birds
10 Cormorants
5 Common Kestrel
Rock-, Laughing - and Collared Doves
10 Kentish Plovers

06th

Flock of Spur winged Plover
Common Kestrel
White wagtails
Redshank
1 Chiffchaff


12th

5 Cormorant
Red - and Greenshank
Swift type
Black-winged Stilt
Yellow - and white Wagtail flocks
1 Pied Kingfisher
1 possible Buzzard
5+ Common Kestrel
Rock-, Laughing - and Collared Doves
2 Hoopoe
1 Desert Wheatear


13th

10 Black winged Stilt
5+ Common Kestrel
1 Hoopoe
3+ Northern Wheatear
1 Steppe Buzzard
2 Black-headed yellow Wagtail
White wagtail
1 Chiffchaff


19th, 12.15pm - 4pm, hot & a bit windy

1 Caspian Tern
1 (Western) Reef Egret (Heron)
Swifts
5+ Common Kestrel
2 Hoopoe
10 Northern Wheatear
2 Barn swallow
Rock-, Laughing - and Collared Doves
Flock of Spur winged Plover
ChiffChaff
White wagtail flock
9 Black winged Stilt
1 Stone Curlew
5+ Red - and Greenshank
some smaller yet to be IDed birds


20th, 7am - 11am, hazy & windy

3 Hoopoe
5 Yellow Wagtail
1 Black-headed yellow Wagtail
Flock Spur winged Plover
5 Black winged Stilt
5+ Common Kestrel
2 Redshank
Flock of Cormorant
1 Cretzschmar's Bunting


27th, sunny and only little wind

2 different small birds yet to be IDed
1 Lesser Whitethroat
9+ Common Kestrel
Rock-, Laughing - and Collared Doves
7+ Buzzard (Common or Steppe)
1 Cormorant
1 Northern Wheatear
Flock of white Wagtail
2 Spur winged Plover
Little Stint
Hoopoe
3 Black winged Stilt
4 Black-headed Gulls
1 smaller GBull (yet to be IDed)
Swallow & Swifts


31st, sunny and very windy, 7am-9am

2 grey Heron
1 Common Tern (?)
2 Black-headed Gull
1 Black winged Stilt
1 Little Stint
Flock of Spur winged Plovers
2 different Flocks of yet to be IDed birds
Flock of white & yellow Wagtail
1 Black-eared Wheatear
1 Cormorant
3+ Common Kestrel

Photos can be found in my Gallery