Mid June in Nouakchott

Mid June in Nouakchott is the quietest time of year for birds.

• The rainy season in southern Mauritania is July to mid October
• Nouakchott normally gets 2 or 3 heavy rains almost any time during that period
• It amounts often amounts to only 100 mm at that time
• Mid June is before any potential rain
• Most palearctic migrants have gone
• No possible rainy season birds have arrived. In the case of this site that especially means blue-cheeked bee-eater
• At the waste water site
• Resident spur-winged lapwing appear to be making scrapes for nests
• Still a few migrants namely woodchat shrike, willow warbler, blackcap and western olivaceous warbler
• Sudan golden sparrow more numerous than in winter and spring
• Similarly with Namaqua dove

Please note a series of blogs will follow reporting on my tour of Uganda, Rwanda, Somaliland and Djibouti in July.

spur winged lapwing

woodchat shrike

Sudan golden sparrow

blackcap

willow warbler 1

willow warbler 2

willow warbler 3

Namaqua dove. One of many

plain tiger butterfly. Common at the site