Onions and Raptor Watchpoint

They grow a lot of onions in Israel ..

Many a happy morning spent here watching 30,000+ raptors passing over head

Birds of Southern Israel

This trip was all about seeing the spectacle of migration and along with a huge amount of moving raptors we had good numbers of warblers with the most prevalent being Lesser Whitethroats, Chiffchaffs, Sedge Warblers, Ruppells Warblers, Eastern Bonelli's Warblers, Eastern Orphean Warbler, Blackcaps, Eastern Olivacious Warblers and lower numbers of Subalpine, Cettis, Reed and Savi's Warblers.  We also had a single Hume's Warbler which is a rarity in Israel.

Black-winged Stilt

Bluethroat

Chiffchaff

Sedge Warbler

Slender-billed Gull

Little Grebe

Spurwinged Plover

Israel 16-23 March 2017

We have just had a brilliant few days in Eilat southern Israel watching a few raptors passing by, to be precise we saw 31,000 Steppe Buzzard, 1,000 Black Kite, 150 Steppe Eagle, 10 Egyptian Vulture, 7 Short-toed Eagle, 2 Lesser Spotted Eagle, 3 Booted Eagle, 1 Imperial Eagle, 13 Marsh Harrier, 2 Long-legged Buzzard, 3 Osprey and 250 Black Storks all migrating up through Africa and in to Europe.  Lots of photos to process so watch this space but here's two to be going on with ..

Little Green Bee-eater

Ruppell's Warbler