The first Israeli tick

We walked a half marathon trough Tel Aviv yesterday. We walked more than 20 km to the park in the Northern part of the city. The quality of the girls was better than the birds with less migrants but still we saw some nice things. We saw all the three species of kingfishers that you can see in Israel; Pied, White-breasted and common. Also Little egret, Cattle egret, Night heron, Glossy ibis, quite a few hoopoes, yellow-legged gulls, spur-winged plover, a ringed Crestmars bunting, a Cetti’s warbler, Spanish sparrows, some Chiffchaffs, White wagtails, Blackcaps and a Lesser whitethroat were present. A singing male Blackbird was a real Israeli tick for us, the first one! In the afternoon we walked back through busy streets full of people with machineguns and very interesting smells everywhere. Most of them were not really nice.

we ended the day with a photo shoot of Tel Aviv’s skyline.