Hud Hud

To be honest there is not a great variety of bird life around. You see the odd raptor and migrating flocks of eagles, but the common garden birds are low in variety. The garden is full of house sparrow, the odd Black headed bulbul and numerous grey wagtails but you have to look pretty close to see anything else common (we this is the desert after all). That is except the bird the Egyptian call the Hudhud, or we call the Hoopoe. This colourful little chap is pretty common, often seen using its long curved beak rooting around in the grass. I had the camera handy a couple of weeks ago and got some photos...........