Last week I flew down to Marsa Alam in southern Egypt. It lies half way down Egypt's Red Sea coast and has the reputation of a migration hot spot. I stayed in a small beach side resort with a small area of lawns and palm trees but it was packed with migrating passerines.
The commonest species resting up on their passage north were
whitethroat, lesser whitethroat, tree pipit, spotted flycatcher and
yellow wagtail. Hundreds of
barn swallow and
sand martin streamed through overhead, buffeted on the winds being enjoyed by the wind surfers.
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| Whitethroat, a common migrant at Marsa Alam |
Amongst the greenery and manicured grass I found several
sedge warbler, redstart, reed warbler and single
golden oriole and
nightingale.
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| One of many tree pipit on the lawns |
I found 45 species over the weekend and added 19 to my Egypt list.
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| A summer plumage sooty gull on the beach |
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