This fellow was buried halfway in the sand.

I got pretty close with the camera and he didn’t move.

He either played dead, or he was dead. No idea which.

Does anyone know a good site for crab-IDs?

Horn-eyed ghost crab, Ocypode ceratophtalmus

Horn-eyed ghost crab, Ocypode ceratophtalmus

Fahaheel, Kuwait – May 8th 2007

Casio EX-P505

Copyright by NicoleB Photography

 

 

Not exactly, but that’s what I got after editing around a bit and it fits the current weather. This is sort of what our sky looked like yesterday. Yuck! Try to breathe. Double yuck. (The Internet is past the point of being wonky too, driving me nuts!)

On the lighter note, I had never seen Slender-billed Gulls (or any Gulls) fly in formation before. This shot is from August 2010 and it really fascinated me to see it. :)

Slender-billed Gull, Dünnschnabelmöwe, Larus genei

 

 

 

 

Another passage migrant, seen this week :)

An interesting thread with some Infos about the Mourning Wheatear in this discussion (I wasn’t sure this is a MW, since I couldn’t see much of the ‘strikingly rusty buff’ he’s supposed to have, due to the Info on the Collins) & some Info in general.

Mourning Wheatear, Schwarzrücken-Steinschmätzer, Oenanthe lugens

 

Mourning Wheatear, Schwarzrücken-Steinschmätzer, Oenanthe lugens

 

Mourning Wheatear, Schwarzrücken-Steinschmätzer, Oenanthe lugens

 

Mourning Wheatear, Schwarzrücken-Steinschmätzer, Oenanthe lugens

 

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