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    Default Directions, please...Scrub Warbler in Masafi

    Would someone kindly provide Scott Young and I directions to where the Scrub Warblers are often found in Masafi? Coordinates would be especially appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Greg
    Gregory Askew
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    UAE List -- 268 (Great Reed Warbler and Semi-collared Flycatcher)
    World List -- 826 (
    Semi-collared Flycatcher, Jebel Hafeet, Al Ain, UAE, 4/12/2013)

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    X marks the spot.
    Coordinates at bottom.
    Drive past the square fenced garbage-dump on the right-hand side as you drive in. Park just past the dump.
    Walk in the valley appx 200m, then check the hilly area on your left side (as you walk in). Can be anywhere in the wadi though, but this area has been good for me for the last 9 years.
    They love hillsides with scattered small scrub.
    Best looked for just after sunrise.
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    Tommy Pedersen
    UAE; 379 species - Cretz....(you try to spell it!) Bunting at Jebel Dhanna--hotels 26 Mar 2013 (thanks Khalifa!)
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    near Awassa, Ethiopia 13 Mar 2013
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    Brilliant. Thanks, Tommy.
    Best,
    G
    Gregory Askew
    أين الطيور؟
    UAE List -- 268 (Great Reed Warbler and Semi-collared Flycatcher)
    World List -- 826 (
    Semi-collared Flycatcher, Jebel Hafeet, Al Ain, UAE, 4/12/2013)

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    greg/Scott -- give me a call if you get there and cant find the location - a little tricky but Tommy's directions are "spot on" - dave - keep a look out for little owls also
    Dave Clark
    Al Ain - 248 species (Marbled Duck)
    UAE - 328 species (Black-naped Oriole)

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    Will do, Dave...are you going tomorrow as well?
    G

    Quote Originally Posted by daveclark View Post
    greg/Scott -- give me a call if you get there and cant find the location - a little tricky but Tommy's directions are "spot on" - dave - keep a look out for little owls also
    Gregory Askew
    أين الطيور؟
    UAE List -- 268 (Great Reed Warbler and Semi-collared Flycatcher)
    World List -- 826 (
    Semi-collared Flycatcher, Jebel Hafeet, Al Ain, UAE, 4/12/2013)

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    Thanks Tommy! Couldn't make it there early, but we were eventually able to hear and then see a pair of them.
    Khalifa - we arrived around 10 am I believe, and walked around for about an hour maybe. At one point I overheard Greg asking a goat where the birds were. I do not know what the goat told Greg, but it was not long after that that we found them. They were about 1km from the road on the left side.
    Scott Young
    AL Ain

    UAE 264 species (Hypocolius)Al Ain 203 species (Red-crested Pochard)



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