Adult male Blue-tailed Damselfly. Head and thorax patterned with blue and black, largely black abdomen with very narrow pale markings where each segment joins the next. Segment eight, however, is entirely pale blue. (Info wiki)
Again another successful beach clean-up at Sulaibikhat, for the third time at that long stretch of beach. One group of people (official trash picker – uppers?) must have been there the day before. There were about 18 plastic bags along the fence line.
But no worries, there was still enough left for all of us. We had 4 new Volunteers, one even from Saudi Arabia 
We collected around 16 bags and approx. 200kg of mainly plastic bottles.
It seems that the numbers of birds are picking up already. I don’t know if this is a sign of migration, or just summer visitors.
We had:
Reef Egret 28 (24 dark form & 4 white form)
White-cheeked Tern 2
Caspian Tern 1
Little Tern 2
Cream-coloured Courser 2
Slender-billed Gull 3
Sanderling 5
Barn Swallow 3
Terek Sandpiper 4
Curlew Sandpiper 35
Greater Sand Plover 5 (1 oiled)
Kentish Plover 3
Ruddy Turnstone 2
Curlew 1
White-eared Bulbul 2
Gull-billed Tern 1
Flamingos 310
Species Total: 17
Or bigger in the gallery
Seen at Saturday’s beach clean-up. Not the greatest photo, but a Lifer
More from the clean up in my Gallery
