Blue-cheeked bee-eater,merops superciliosus,

click on the photo to see the bee- eater entering its nest in the mud bank.
I was standing on the built up area that houses the pipes from the pump house to the canal which is about 2 meters above the wetlands  the nests are the same level as my holding the camera to take the photo  that means the nests are some 3.5 meters above the flooded Nile waters

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Blue-cheeked bee-eater.

 

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The bee eaters are the Blue-cheeked bee eaters only  in these parts for a few months 

click on to see 

 the european bee eaters  they were only here for a few days  2 weeks at the most,

click on to see the little green bee-eaters our winter  bird

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