Saturday 3 December 2011

Al-Warsen lakes, UAE

After this afternoons visit to the pivot fields I drove the short distance to Al-Warsen lakes. Duck numbers have now started to build up with over a hundred pochard on the far side together with six ferruginous duck.

A greater spotted eagle flushed from the reeds was noisily mobbed by two purple heron and a marsh harrier. A total of about a dozen female/immature marsh harriers were quartering the reed beds.

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30 Little grebe
150 Cormorant
1 Squacco heron
1 Great white egret
40 Grey heron
3 Purple heron
1 Glossy ibis
2 Gadwall
8 Mallard
2 Shoveler
100 Pochard
6 Ferruginous duck
4 Tufted duck
1 Greater spotted eagle
12 Marsh harrier
6 Grey francolin
10 Moorhen
1 Coot
2 Red-wattled plover
4 Little stint
1 Common snipe
1 Green sandpiper
1 Wood sandpiper
100 Black-headed gull
40 Lesser black-backed gull
1 Whiskered tern
40 Collared dove
20 Laughing dove
1 Little green bee-eater
4 White wagtail
1 Citrine wagtail
10 White-cheeked bulbul
8 Red-vented bulbul
1 Bluethroat
3 Graceful prinia
20 Common myna

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