100-days since we went into lockdown on 12 March 2020! Luckily I have this hobby to keep the sanity, even though it is mid-summer, it is still important to get out. Unfortunately, there arent any other locations worth visiting and Jahra Pools is off limits due to Covid-19. But, there is certainly nothing wrong with the Pivots as a birding location.
On the way to the marsh, I found the Black-winged Kite on the same overhead line as last week, except this time there were two birds
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| Black-winged Kite (Elanus c. vociferus) |
At the marsh, the Black-winged Stilt's were already overhead to welcome me, before I got out the car
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| Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus) |
They were followed by 3 Pied Avocet's that were extremely skittish
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| Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) |
I had juveniles of both White-tailed
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| White-tailed Lapwing (Vanellus leucurus) |
and Red-wattled Lapwing
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| Red-wattled Lapwing (Vanellus indicus) |
Walking the perimeter of the marsh, I flushed a Common Redshank that gave a quick fly by
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| Common Redshank (Tringa totanus) |
And a number of Little Ringed Plover
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| Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius leschenaultii) |
I went to look in the usual place for the Cream-coloured Courser's and found a small flock
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| Cream-coloured Courser (Cursorius cursor) |
and not much further on, found the Black-crowned Sparrow-Larks in their usual spot
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| Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark (Eremopterix nigriceps) |
here a few of them lining up in the shade of the telephone pole to escape the heat of the morning
On the boundary of the farm, a Helmeted Guineafowl had escaped from it's pen
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| Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris) |
Whilst tallying up the eBird list in the shade, I swapped the prime lens for my macro to photograph this Dragonfly
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| Dragonfly sp. |
Before heading home to some welcome AC in the apartment
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