{"id":5553,"date":"2012-03-08T12:53:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T11:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=5553"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:12:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:12:29","slug":"night-life-in-the-arava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/night-life-in-the-arava\/","title":{"rendered":"Night life in the Arava"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the last few days, things haveslow downa bit with migration. Nevertheless we still get 100-150 birds daily at the IBRCE ringing station and there are many Tawny Pipits and the first Short-toed Larks in many fields.<\/p>\n

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The Cinerous Buntingwhich wasoriginally found by Harvey and Mary Van Diek is still present in Ophira Park (which is located indown-townEilat) and was photographed yesterday by Fabian Mayer, a Duth volunteer at the IBRCE.<\/p>\n

Last night i was joined by the Van Diek’s for a night drive in Yotveta and what a night it was…<\/p>\n

As we entered the fields, a (Desert) Red Fox was running in the beam of light and as we raised our bins, we could see many more shining eyes. it took us a while until we understood that the field was spotted with at least 8-9 Eurasian Stone-curlew.Later in the evening we estimated no less than 15-20 different individuals.<\/p>\n

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Shortly after this encounter, we found the\/a wonderful Pallid Scops Owlat the exact same location where we had it on Saturday (unfortunatelywe couldn’t get any good photos of it).<\/p>\n

We then proceeded and found 3 Egyptian Nightjarsflying and feeding around. One individual was very tame and allowed some really nice close ups (I can’t wait to see Harvey’s photos of it).<\/p>\n

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On the Mammal list we added few more Foxes but the most interesting was a very nice Striped Hyena! this is by no mean a common mammal here and we only see them once every 15 outings or so. We couldn’t get close to it to take a decent photo, but still a great thrill was felt by all participants.<\/p>\n

A 4th Cyprus Warblerwas ringed this morning at the IBRCE and a constant flow of Steppe Eagles, Steppe Buzzards together withfew Short-toed and BootedEagles isvisibledaily.I just hope that the winds which are blowing very fast will ease and allow more birds to move through…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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