drrezakhan
25-03-2011, 11:21
Thursday in Safa Park and Pivot Field 24th March 2011
Safa 7.15 to 10am
6 Chiffchaff pic
3 Leaf Warbler, making continuous chirruping sound high on the canopy of Ghaf trees, pic
4 Common teal
2 Garganey
2 Reef heron- white form
6 L Grebe
Mallard with 5 chicks; 2 males and a few domesticated ones
3 Pallid swifts came to drink from sanctuary ponds
150 BH Gull
6 C Sandpiper
1 pair RW Lapwing laid 1st egg
3 Daurian-Turkestan Shrike see pics
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PIVOT FIELD
10.30 to 12.30 and 5.15 to 6.15pm
1 Northern Wheatear
2 Daurian-Turkestan Shrike
2 C Reed Warbler, in reed beds
12 Wood Sandpiper
2 Green Sandpiper
6 LR Plover
3 BH gull
15 White Wagtail
20 Water Pipit
25 Yellow Wagtail- with a flock of 12 in the afternoon
1 Citrine Wagtail
4 Common Snipe hinding inside palm grove by chinese pottery shed
2 pallid Swift
2 Red-spotted Blue Throat, see pic
1 Greater Short-toed Lark, head quite rufous and streaky, see pic
1 Richard’s/Blyth’s pipit rufous/dark brown on primaries and underside, a sub adult, wary, see pic
5-6 Red-throated Pipit, see pic
2 Western Marsh Harrier
Safa 7.15 to 10am
6 Chiffchaff pic
3 Leaf Warbler, making continuous chirruping sound high on the canopy of Ghaf trees, pic
4 Common teal
2 Garganey
2 Reef heron- white form
6 L Grebe
Mallard with 5 chicks; 2 males and a few domesticated ones
3 Pallid swifts came to drink from sanctuary ponds
150 BH Gull
6 C Sandpiper
1 pair RW Lapwing laid 1st egg
3 Daurian-Turkestan Shrike see pics
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PIVOT FIELD
10.30 to 12.30 and 5.15 to 6.15pm
1 Northern Wheatear
2 Daurian-Turkestan Shrike
2 C Reed Warbler, in reed beds
12 Wood Sandpiper
2 Green Sandpiper
6 LR Plover
3 BH gull
15 White Wagtail
20 Water Pipit
25 Yellow Wagtail- with a flock of 12 in the afternoon
1 Citrine Wagtail
4 Common Snipe hinding inside palm grove by chinese pottery shed
2 pallid Swift
2 Red-spotted Blue Throat, see pic
1 Greater Short-toed Lark, head quite rufous and streaky, see pic
1 Richard’s/Blyth’s pipit rufous/dark brown on primaries and underside, a sub adult, wary, see pic
5-6 Red-throated Pipit, see pic
2 Western Marsh Harrier