I spent 8 hours walking most of the pivots and the waterside edges to the south. The irrigation equipment provided a good perch for a large count of 105 cattle egret.
Cattle egret |
The first group of migrants were two flocks of common swift that moved quickly through, clearly much darker than the usual pallid swift. The next flock of migrants was 9 lesser kestrel hovering over an irrigated alfalfa field. The paths around the fields held the usual desert wheatear but also present were 3 pied wheatear no doubt newly arrived.
Steppe grey shrike |
Several species of shrike were present including my first woodchat shrike for Saudi Arabia and at the side of the same pivot field was a nice rufous morph steppe buzzard.
Steppe buzzard |
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KACST FISH FARM
82 Black kite
HA'IR PIVOT FIELDS
4 Mallard
1 Teal
1 Little grebe
1 Great cormorant
1 Little bittern
12 Grey heron
6 Purple heron
105 Cattle egret
4 Squacco heron
4 Marsh harrier
1 Steppe buzzard
1 Greater spotted eagle
9 Lesser kestrel
4 Common kestrel
12 Moorhen
2 Coot
4 Lapwing
3 Green sandpiper
2 Wood sandpiper
8 Snipe
200 Eurasian collared dove
100 Laughing dove
40 Namaqua dove
30 Common swift
3 White-throated kingfisher
20 Green bee-eater
1 Turkestan shrike
2 Southern grey shrike
1 Steppe grey shrike
1 Woodchat shrike
2 Brown-necked raven
20 Crested lark
3 Skylark
2 Sand martin
2 Rock martin
150 Barn swallow
5 White-spectacled bulbul
50 White-cheeked bulbul
5 Chiffchaff
25 Graceful prinia
3 Black scrub robin
9 Bluethroat
7 European stonechat
3 Pied wheatear
15 Desert wheatear
15 Starling
1 Yellow wagtail
120 White wagtail
8 Tawny pipit
120 Spanish sparrow
1 Streaked weaver
3 Indian silverbill
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