30th July birds

Not all that many different spiecies around today  1   Juvenile  scacco Heron,  2/3/4.  Little white egrets,
5  plover,  6   female Nile Valley sun Bird,  7  Cockerel  just thought  would put him on  seeing he posed so nice for me,  8  Field  of Egrets  little and cattle,  9  Male  and female whoopoe     do not ask silly questions as to how I know.Its a good thing that they know, but the female is the furthest from the camera. I also saw the grey and night heron,  the gracefull prinia,  scrub warbler. and any amount of sparrows +  the black winged Kite
 

Mid July birds

There are not so many birds around  the ones that are here are the ones who are here for most of the year
apart from the Graceful Prinia
f(1) the little white Egret  (2) Squacco Heron (3/12) Whoopoe (4)Laughing dove  (5) Spur-winged plover(6/7) moorhen  (8/9/10) Graceful prinia.  (11) blue-cheeked bee eater,
the last five shots are of the frog hunting expeditions.  including the ducklings and whoopoe's.
 and the king fishers are having a great time  catching the fish caught in the ponds of the receding Nile river,
all these photos where taken  at 6.00 with the rising sun  hence some  discolouration in the shots.

Fan-tailed cisticola.cisticola juncidis,

Whitethroat Sylvia communis. Juvenile

Young hoopoe

Gracefull prinia.prinia gracilis

'

Graceful prinia, prinia gracilis.
This is what birding is about this little bird is smaller than a wren almost like trying to get a photo of a large grasshopper,  but today this little one decided it would let me get quite close so i could take a photo only problem  was,   the reed beds are not a good place for a photo session'

 and these are what  shots I got today, its ok for me I saw these birds out in the open hunting for food, before they dived for cover,  in these reeds.

It decided to have a good scrach. then a good preen making sure there was no small wildlife under its wings.

Then it flew off into a more open area by the Nile.

Fan- tailed cisticola, Cisticola juncidis

'

Fan-tailed warbler (or zitting cisticole) Cisticola juncidis

Now theres a long name for such a Tiny bird this little bird bathes in the dew on the leaves ,
I know , And no! I do not have anything better to do than watch birds bathing.