We are delighted to announce the results of our latest photo competition. Myer Bornstein wins First Prize for his brilliant capture “Pair of Macaws”. Stuart Jamieson wins Second Prize for his outstanding composition “Polar Bear and Cub”. Third Place goes to Augusto Atturo for “Red-necked Phalarope”. See detailed results below: (click on thumbnails […]
Tour of the east side
As well as visiting local farms on Friday, I toured some sites east of the city starting at Ayn Hamran. The stop at Ayn Hamran was relatively short but it is never uninteresting. Though there were no wintering birds seen yet apart from a couple of common sandpiper and a grey wagtail. It’s always a […]
Photo Tip #1
PHOTO TIP from Always An Adventure: This is our first post, and it’s about back-lit situations. Photographing back-lit subjects are never easy, and there are a few tricks to consider in situations like this. 1) you can use a fill flash/pop-up flash 2) you can get light from other sources, for example a white sheet […]
Central Winds Park, 10/3/2015
Yesterday I visited Central Winds Park hoping for migrants. It was kind of a slow morning. The cold front up north should have brought migrants down, but weather patterns seem to have held them from coming down to us. So I had 9 warbler species, none of them worth writing home about. The most unusual […]
Time for Cape May
Hawks are migrating now and one of the best places to see them is Cape May, New Jersey. Lots of the birds flying down the Atlantic flyway get channeled into the southern tail of New Jersey and end up concentrated at Cape May Point. They often wait there for weather favorable for the flight across […]
Buraimi
Last Thursday was the only day during Eid when I had no long distance travelling. I stayed in the Buraimi area on the border with UAE. I visited two sites there: Buraimi sewage plant and Jebel Qatar. Both are conveniently on the same road to Mahdah and barely five kilometres apart. The sewage plant is […]
Plenty of waders – Dhahran Expro Wader Roost
A trip to the Dhahran Expro Wader Roost produced plenty of waders of a good variety of species. The tide was not ideal but plenty of birds were along the edges including both Lesser and Greater Sand Plovers in small numbers. Curlew Sandpipers, Eurasian Curlew, Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwits and Dunlins had the largest number of […]
VOTE for the Best Photo of the Week 10 Oct 2015
Welcome to the “Best Photo of the Week” competition showcasing and celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. Voting is easy and lots of fun. First click an image and browse through the slideshow. Then select the three images you like best of all and click the VOTE button at the bottom of the page. […]