Saturday, December 17, 2016

Winter Birding

What a day! with Itamar Gorfinkel, Amit Choan and Itamar Donitza
In the morning we started in Acre's North beach.
Crazy numbers of Mediterranean Gulls, 14 birds! Also other good birds like Caspian, Blatic and Pallas's Gulls. We found our own Audouin's Gull! and saw the Lesser Crested Tern that Amir Ben-Dov found yesterday.



Audouin's Gull

Lesser Crested Tern

Mediterranean Gull

 We gave up on the Humos Restaurant to twich the Asian House Martin  1st for Israel!  in Ma'agan Michael.
In Ma'agan Michael we saw all the common birds like Citrine Wagtail and Penduline Tits.

Citrine Wagtail
The Asian Martin was hard but we found her

1st Asian House Martin

After the Martin we went to twich the  Slovenian Grabe 5th for Israel!



Slovenian Grabe

Saturday, December 3, 2016

  
                                                                           Hula lake      

today,I was wandering around the Hula Lake.  I had a great day with Itamar Gorfinkel, Itamar Donitza and Omer Tamari

I woke up at 4:00 in the morning-tough! and immediately leftt  my house,and we are on our way toward the Hula lake! The sun is rising above the Golan heights and we already saw  good birds like the
Eastern Imperlial Eagle, Peregrine, Ferruginous Duck and another commons ducks and birds of prey... of course a lot of Cranes...






Male Marsh Harrier




Cranes



The real reason that we came to the Hula lake is the Greylag Geese that found here (very rare bird in Israel). We saw them from the Floating view,  lifer!
Greylag

Little stop in the Red-Breasted Flycatcher's woods and we returned home right on time to see the Classico
   







Red-Breasted Flycatcher

Weekend in the north  My father was invted to a doctors convention in kfar Blum, Hula Valley and I joined him. In Friday I visited The...