On the first day of Eid, Neil Tovey and I enjoyed a great morning in the Pivot Fields, arriving just after sunrise. Just on the way in we had Caspian Plovers, Collared Pratincoles and Black-crowned Sparrow Larks in the first open fields - but they were too distant for any images.
We really just drove around enjoying the birds this site has to offer, finding quite a few Harriers
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| Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus) |
two Buzzard species; a moulting Steppe
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| Steppe Buzzard (Buteo b. vulpinus) |
and Long-legged putting up all the Sparrows
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| Long-legged Buzzard (Buteo rufinus) |
We flushed a small flock of Garganey that had dropped in to drink at a small pool
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| Garganey (Anas querquedula) |
However, it was at the large pond where Neil got onto a small phylloscopus that dropped down out of the tree to grab an insect on the ground. It had a distinct super and a faint wingbar and we nailed it down as a Green Warbler, a scarce and probably annual, but over-looked migrant in Kuwait.
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| Green Warbler (Phylloscopus nitidus) |
A great bird to end an enjoyable morning's birding
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