I set myself a target in September last year to try and photograph as many of the migratory waders that visit the north of Oman (Muscat to Seeb Coastline) as I could. Here's a selection of some of those I got. Most will be very familiar to those in the UK.
Red Wattled Plover - quite possibly the noisiest bird in the world!
Pacific Golden Plover
Sanderling
Greenshank
Oystercatcher
Turnstone
Dunlin
Black Winged Stilt
Whimbrel
Common Sandpiper
Grey Plover
Redshanks doing a Road Runner impression
Curlew, who buries his entire beak in the sand looking for food.
Andrew
Hi-
nice pics- all but one on my Norfolk list :)))
S
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Hi Kathy and Dave
Thanks for the nice comments on my pictures. We only get the waders for such a short time here and by now most have already left. The Oystercatchers only seem to stay for a couple of weeks. I guess they use Northern Oman as a quick stop off on thier journey North.
For every good picture I seem to take I can tell you I have a whole card full of rubbish most of the time :-)
The Oystercatchers were really ahrd to photograph as you simply cant get close to them. I waded out in the sea almost up to my waist with camera and trippod to get them before the sun had come up. Luckilly the waters warm here!!
Thanks again