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Sakhalvasho, Georgia
Redwing
Steppe Buzzard
Common Buzzard (ssp ?)
1
Long-legged Buzzard
Short-toed Eagle
Greater Spotted Eagle (adult)
Black Stork
Walking to the count site... Spring special
View from count site
Imperial Eagle (immature)
Marsh Harrier (2cy)
Marsh Harrier (adult male)
Lesser Spotted Eagle (adult)
2
Steppe Eagle (immature)
Lesser Spotted Eagle (immature)
Common Buzzard ssp Buteo
Imperial Eagles (adults)
Countin'
Wood Pigeon
The count site ... with snow
Lesser Spotted Eagle
Steppe Eagle (2cy)
Marsh Harrier (adult female) presumed dark morph
Greater Spotted Eagle (immature)
Rough-legged Buzzard (record shot)
White-tailed Eagle (adult)
Lesser Spotted Eagle (young adult)
Pallid Harrier (adult female)
Imperial Eagle (2cy) and Greater spotted Eagle (young adult(?))
Lesser Spotted Eagle (adult, presumed female)
Black Kites
Cinereous Vulture
Reed Bunting
Little Gull
Ferrugenous Duck
Mediterranean Gull
Slender-billed Gull
Greater Spotted Eagle (2cy)
Chorokhi Delta (the dry parts)
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Marsh Harrier
Imperial Eagle
Black Kites (majority) over Batumi
(mostly) Black Kites gaining height above Batumi
View from count site (and a few small - bird - dots)
Black Kites against Batumi
Black Kite
Lesser Spotted Eagle (adult) and a Steppe Buzzard
Hen Harrier (adult male)
Steppebuzzard
Egyptian Vulture (adult) among Black Kites and a Steppe Buzzard
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Black Kite (2cy)
Black Kite (adult)
Semi-collared Flycatcher
Semicollared Flycatcher
White Stork
Raptors using the 'thermals' from the fire smoke to gain height
Marsh Harrier (3cy male)
Hen Harrier (adult female)
Glossy Ibis
Isabelline Wheatear
Caspian Stonechat
Bluethroat
Citrine Wagtail
Northern Wheatear
Golden Plovers
Purple Heron
Black-headed Wagtail
Short-eared Owl under attack!
Greater Sand Plover
Sparrowhawk
Osprey, large eagle spec, Steppebuzzard and Black Kite
Common Crane
Common Crane (2cy)
Common Crane (2cy) and Black Stork in the fog
Collared Pratincole (and White Wagtail)
Pallid Harrier (adult male)
Greater Sand Plover attempting to take a nap
View from the garden of our guesthouse in Sakhalvasho
Black-throated Divers ... and one Red-necked Greben inbetween
Chorokhi Delta
Chorokhi Delta (and some Kowa marketing)
Little Ringed Plovers 'creating life'
Batumi
Black Kites and the ferris wheel of Batumi
Cattle Egret
Wryneck
Red-throated Pipit
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Pied Flycatcher
Collared Flycatcher
Common Redstart
Tree Pipit
White-tailed Lapwing
Red-necked Phalarope
Black-winged Stilt
Kentisch Plover
Red-breasted Merganser
Kentish Plover
Marsh Sandpiper, Greenshank and Ruff
Citrin Wagtail
Booted Eagle
Gull-billed Tern with Turkey in the background
Citrine Wagtail (female)
Yellow Wagtail ssp Beema
Yellow Wagtail ssp Thunbergi
Greylag Goose ssp rubirostris
Spoonbill (2cy)
White-winged Tern
Marsh Sandpiper
Spotted Crake
Squacco Heron
Greater Sand Plover (compilation)
GULLS!
Kentish Plover, Greater Sand Plover, Little Ringed Plover
Greater Sand Plover and Kentish Plover
Yellow Wagtails
Red-necked Grebe
Goldfinch
Little Crake
Black-throated Divers (and Red-necked Grebe in between)
Black Kites (sound on!)
Sardinian Warbler