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