We had some superstar guests from overseas. Here is Marco Lambertini talking about his bird life:
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Today I had the honour and pleasure to spend the morning with Ian Newton. I picked him up from Tel Aviv and we drove off to Ma'agan Michael. We had little time there, and the weather was quite British - cold, grey and windy, but we did quite OK I think. Ian had a good time for sure with four lifers (Ian - you owe me four pints next time we meet).
This Citrine Wagtail was very loyal to a small grassy patch which had tons of insects sheltering from the strong wind:
I totally screwed this image up - the focus stayed locked on the tail:
We had two male Siberian Stonechat. This one is a typical variegatus - note that at least half of the length of the rectrices is white:
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Didn't get any images of the second bird but it was closer to armenicus, with very little white at the base of the rectrices - perhaps 1/4 of the feather.
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Other good birds we had were four Pallas's Gulls (great views), one Yellow-legged and many Slender-billed Gulls (some were really pink - almost like a ross's - I wish...), many Water Pipits, Temminck's Stints, Sanderlings, Reed Bunting and lots of other stuff.
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