I was able to spend the last few hours of the day at Jahra Pools Reserve, although diversity and abundance was lower than reported the previous day.
A Great Cormorant along the road seemed quite obliging, but I suspect it wasn't well
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| Continental Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax sinensis) |
Caspian Stonechat are literally everywhere
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| Female Caspian Stonechat (Saxicola m. hemprichii) |
In the desert area I had a single Great Grey Shrike
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| Great Grey Shrike (Lanius e. lahotra) |
and on the way to one of the smaller pools, one of the many Daurian Shrike
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| Daurian Shrike (Lanius isabellinus) |
The setting sun was behind me, so I spent the rest of the afternoon chilling quietly at one of the pools, photographing Common Snipe
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| Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) |
Green Sandpiper
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| Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) |
a cracking Grey Wagtail
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| Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) |
White-tailed Lapwing
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| White-tailed Lapwing (Vanellus leucurus) |
Squacco Heron
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| Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides) |
and Grey-headed Swamphen
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| Grey-headed Swamphen (Porphyrio p. poliocephalus) |
When the sun was nearing the horizon, I headed back to the gate, stopping to get the Black-headed Gull's returning to roost with the setting sun as a backdrop
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| JPR Sunset |
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