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Hula Valley Bird Festival - Israel 2006 5-11 November

News from the Swamp

12.3.06

Today, while on the Golan Wind Turbine Survey, I took
some 30 min' to drive around the site. Since there
were not too many soaring birds moving around, I took
the advantage and found a great male Cyprus Wheatear. At first, he didn't cooperate and was keeping way out of reach in (see the first photo). After a while, the bird did get closer and I managed to get the following images.

later, when i was on my way back to the site, an
African Wild Cat (pure, with no trace of any domestic
in it), was walking on the road and very fast
disappeared to the grass when he saw me (probably it
was my shocked face that made him run so fast...)

Itai Shanni

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Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca

Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca