Daily summaries

Tuesday Dec 11
Since it's vacation time, children playing in the valley so the gazelles are keeping out of the way, probably off west up the north valley.
Orange tufted sunbird and blackbird in *song* in the garden. Also vocal: white spectacled bulbuls, house sparrows in the garden.

Hooded crows, jackdaws in street and valley, chiffchaff call by central trail, greenfinch call, eucalyptus grove. Eurasian Jay, woods. .
White wagtail foraging on rooftop of neighbouring school, black redstart by bunker ruins, and stonechats on scrub, gazelle field.

Wednesday Dec 12

Range 11-21 degrees C, 4 p.m. ~ 16 degrees C and falling, humidity: just under 30%, wind SE, almost still.

Wednesday local wildlife update: Hanukah vacation, children playing in the valley so the gazelles are keeping out of the way, probably off west up the north valley.
Vocal in the garden: Orange tufted sunbird, blackbird, (just thin 'tzeeet call) , white spectacled bulbuls, house sparrows, laughing dove (a little light cooing early afternoon). Also heard and/or seen: Hooded crows, jackdaws, white wagtail, syrian woodpecker, graceful warblers.

(laughing dove=Palm dove=Senegal dove.
Streptopelia senegalensis

Thursday Dec 13,

Range: 8-16 degrees C, 4 p.m. ~14 degrees C, humidity: 60%, wind WSW ~8 kt

Children playing in the valley so the gazelles are keeping out of the way, probably off west up the north valley.
Vocal in the garden: singing: Orange tufted sunbird in the Bauhinia, great tit, Calling somewhere near: white spectacled bulbuls, house sparrows, laughing dove (a little light cooing).

Singing by valley road: blackbird. There's a regular in an acacia by our shortcut from the buildings to valley road.

Also heard and/or seen: Hooded crows, feral pigeons, jackdaws, white wagtail, syrian woodpecker, graceful warblers, roving bands of finches, probably chaffinches but didn't get a clear view. black redstart & Eurasian Jay calls. Predusk crow flyby northern foraging grounds to windsurfer hill, 24 hooded crows.