2011 July 8th Beach clean-up Maternity beach
We collected around 60kg of waste (which will be recycled) at the clean-up yesterday. We only had a few Volunteers, but we can call it a successful day.
There’s still more rubbish around, mainly small bottle caps and such – I call this beach now bottle-cap beach 
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There were still some birds around. Some are 1st year birds which come for the summer and some are breeding here in Kuwait. Greater Flamingos among them.
The guy at the last few pics was an official trash picker-upper that came along to do his morning chores (I suppose) and who was obviously flustered at what happened 
The family in one of the shots thanked us whole heartedly and seemed a little embarrassed that we were doing this.
Bird count:
White-cheeked Tern (1st summer) – 5
House Sparrow – 26
Common Myna – 2
Greater Sand Plover (1st summer) – 4
Slender-billed Gull (1st summer) – 1
(Eastern) Reef Egret (dark form) – 3
Greater Flamingo – 29
Bar-tailed Godwit – 1
Kentish Plover – 3
Species Total: 9
NicoleB
Amateur Photographer, Globehopper & nature Lover
