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News from the Swamp
4.4.06
The spring is here and everything is possible. Many
vagrants appear all over the country and the Hula Valley is no different.
2 days ago a visiting group of British birdwatchers, saw a single
Demoiselle Crane heading a group of roughly 800 Common Cranes on their way
north. Yesterday probably the same bird was found again among some 600
Common Crane eating in a field nearby the
lake. The cranes are very agitated and as such it is extremely hard to get
closer views, but I still managed to get these record shots.
Other than that, the last storm created a very muddy conditions, but for
the birds it doesn't seems to affect and many thousands of White Storks
are still on the move and together with them the first Whinchat and many
many Wheatears (mainly Black-eared and Northern). One very strange record
is of a Mourning Wheatear that was seen by our Golan Survey team. For a
desert species that was never recorded so far north (Shirihai, 1996), this
is a very unusual sighting.This individual is possible of the persica
subsp. Crown with greyish-beige tipped feathers and less pronounced white
on remiges are signs for persica.Although some lugens can
probably also show these signs?
Check this site for more updates soon,
Itai Shanni
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Demoiselle Crane Anthoropides virgo
Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica
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