Following the success of last week, Paul Scott and I spent an enjoyable and more relaxed morning at Pivot Fields and we had some birds today that we didn't record last week. This is one of the aspects I really love about birding - no one day is the same!
It was the calls of Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters that we heard when we arrived just after sunrise and in a fog of humidity - it is such a like-able and 'happy' call
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| Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Merops persicus) |
The dense humid air really impacted our photography and it is really difficult to get sharp and clean images.
An Eastern Imperial Eagle had roosted overnight on the pivot and we enjoyed some time with this magnificent raptor
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| Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca) |
On the same pivot, there were a couple of Common Wood Pigeon's, as species I have not seen for quite some time in Kuwait, although they have now been proven breeding in Abdaly in the north of Kuwait
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| Common Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus) |
In the same area, there was a small flock of Glossy Ibis foraging with a massive flock of Western Cattle Egret
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| Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) |
Again we flushed a number of Snipe, all Common
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| Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) |
Graceful Prinia's were vocal and a little wet from the dew on the grass
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| Graceful Prinia (Prinia gracilis) |
We had a few Isabelline Wheatear
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| Isabelline Wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina) |
along with Pied Wheatear at various spots around the farm
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| Pied Wheatear (Oenanthe pleschanka) |
We saw a couple of Red-backed Shrike, all 1st year birds
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| Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) |
And some Lesser Short-toed Lark's which are not as abundant as the Greater Short-toed
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| Lesser Short-toed Lark (Alaudala rufescens) |
More Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark
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| Black-crowned Sparrow Lark (Eremopterix nigriceps) |
And in the same field, the first White Wagtails of the winter had now arrived.
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| White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) |
We found the flock of Northern Lapwing and now 3 Sociable Lapwing were present be too far and too skittish for photographs
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| Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) |
It had now started to warm up and more raptors started appearing; Greater Spotted Eagle
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| Greater Spotted Eagle (Aquila clanga) |
Pallid Harrier
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| Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus) |
and a bonus pair of Lesser Kestrel hunting over one of the fields
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| Male Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) |
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| Female Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) |
A Eurasian Sparrowhawk passed by overhead
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| Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) |
and the 'local' Long-legged Buzzard was also seen, but didn't allow close approach at all
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| Long-legged Buzzard (Buteo rufinus) |
We found a small flock of feeding Western White Stork, but it wasn't long before they too found a thermal and continued on the southward journey
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| Western White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) |
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