Indian House Crow

Indian House Crow 


How nice it feels to have a good bath. The pleasure of having the precious desalinated water flowing from the shower is a luxury that i treat myself whenever i get home. A sticky humid air in the hot summer is what you get outside and you end up in dripping perspiration if ever you dare walk in the streets.
I got home this afternoon from work and i immediately turned on the air-conditioner because i was feeling so sticky from the heat then i immediately dropped myself on the bed without even changing my clothes. I got up after around 2 hours of sleep then prepared myself to go out to get a haircut. I'd been planning this one for days but the heat just wouldn't let me out. So i fixed myself to go out and get a taxi. I was hearing the sound of Indian House Crows so i took a moment to follow them as if they were being disturbed from their resting place. I am very familiar of these birds because i see them everyday on my way to work around the old king's palace in Adliya. This is the first time I'm seeing a flight of crows in the night so my curiosity got me walking. There were like hundreds of them and someone seems to be shooting at them wherever they stop. I remember reading from the GDN about the way the locals wanted to get rid of these creatures. They say these birds have become a burden and should be eliminated because they are rapidly growing in numbers, preying on other minor birds, messing up the garbage and sometimes can even get inside your house if you have an open window and steal whatever jewelry or important belongings it can take. They have become the bad-birds and i still marvel at them. I decided of just walking to the salon instead of getting a taxi and so my walking goes.... I had the chance to think.

Those crows were like the fellows who have migrated from India for a better life here.

This is just the weather i hated most in Bahrain.

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Indian House Crows 

check out this article--> "mink of the air" to invade

Stilt Sandpiper

e-postcard from Fairy 


Received an e-postcard from Feryal today...
maybe she thought i'm really hooked on this ornithology stuff when i asked her to scan the book yesterday so she gave me a very nice e-postcard of a Stilt Sandpiper....
this kind is one of the most common birds i see around Sitra bridge on my way home from work...

i told her i'm going to copy the file because its really very nice but she said it cant be downloaded and can only access it through gulfoasis.com so i made my way to get it...

Now behold!

Sooty Falcon

Sooty Falcon (Falco concolor). The most endangered of Hawar's Breeding Species.

- taken from The Breeding Birds of Hawar by Howard King  

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Finally had the time to scan a page from the book (courtesy of Feryal, my Sexy Iranian IT partner here) hehe..
well
i had some trouble uploading it thru HELLO...
and it turned out to be posted twice with different captions so i had to re-edit it and added a link to Bahrain Bird Report where they give a description of the book i bought from Hawar when i had my leave.....
i have nothing to upload now from my own shots coz i spent most of the time enjoying the water and inside the room when i can no longer tolerate the scorching heat of the sun...
i plan to visit Hawar again for other things than jetski and snorkeling.....