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Birding Update January 2, 2012

January 6, 2012

First of all, happy new year to everyone! After a long time away from writing updates for the website, I have come back to doing it. Although the spring is the premium migration season, the other seasons do not disappoint either. It may be a bit harder to find the birds, but at the right [...]

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Birding Update beginning November 2011

January 6, 2012

After a prolonged absence from writing an update on the website due to guiding elsewhere in the country, I have found the time to write again. I went on a 4-hour birding trip with two of my kids to see what was going on at the Eilat Sewage works and at the Km 20 salt [...]

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Large Raptor Migration over Lotan, 9 April 2011

April 10, 2011

After a few days where there was little new migration going on, we woke up to a day where from the outset it seemed that there was a lot more going on. There were many more Lesser Whitethroats, Blackcaps and Chiffchaffs in the trees on the Kibbutz. There apparently had been some significant migration after [...]

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Birding Report beginning of April 2011

April 8, 2011

After being away for a while from the southern part of Israel, I had the opportunity to go out with two couples to bird for two days. We headed down to the Eilat mountains to look for migrating raptors. We arrived there at about 9 a.m. and saw some light migration going on. There were [...]

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Birding update 20 March 2011

March 21, 2011

Spring migration is underway already in full force, just in  the past two days it seems to have bypassed Lotan. Here is it quite quiet. In our Lotan Wetlands all four types of Wagtails can be  seen: White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail (feldegg), Grey Wagtail and Citrine Wagtail. All can be seen hopping next to each [...]

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Birding update 16 March 2011

March 17, 2011

Today, I went out with Thomas Krumenacker and Frank Moffatt to bird around Lotan, and in a radius of about 5 kilometers. We started out around the Lotan wetland, where there were over 60 White Wagtails, about 40 Water Pipits and about 15 Red-throated Pipits. The Green Sandpipers that have been around were still there. [...]

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Regarding the Cinereous Vulture

March 13, 2011

… First of all an apology goes out to Dan Alon of the Israel Ornithological Center regarding the Cinereous Vulture. As a result of false information, I thought that he had seen the pictures. After speaking to him and to Yif’at Delzus (that is the correct spelling of her name), it turns out that it [...]

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Birding Update March 13, 2011

March 13, 2011

It has been quite a week of birding here in the Lotan area. Some of the highlights first: A Cyprus Wheatear was sighted on one of the compost piles at the Yotvata circular fields (thank you Thomas Krumenacker), in addition, there was a Citrine Wagtail at the Constructed Wetlands in Lotan. This particular area is [...]

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Cinereous Vulture on Lotan, February 2011

March 2, 2011

A few weeks ago I had seen an especially large raptor that landed on one of the light posts on the perimeter fence of the kibbutz. I did not have my binoculars with me, so I could not make an identification. Yif’at Zelzus, birder from the north of the country and a frequent visitor here, [...]

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Imperial Eagle right outside Lotan (Feb 27, 2011)

March 1, 2011

I was birding around the kibbutz relatively late during the day yesterday, seeing some of the wintering species that are here, also seeing a few tree pipits that came in. Suddenly I glimpsed a shadow above me, and noticed a large eagle soaring overhead. It had something in its talons that I could not make [...]

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