Ramadan timings with reduced working hours is very much welcomed by expat birders. Just “slightly” pushing limits one can visit place like Al Abraq in early morning.
Black Kite 6, Common Buzzard 7, Long-legged Buzzard 1, Sparrowhawk 1, Booted Eagle 1, Pallid Harrier 1, Squacco Heron 1, Quail 1, Corncrake 1, Scops Owl 1, Hoopoe 8, Laughing Dove 1, Green Sandpiper 1, Golden Oriole 1, Spotted Flycatcher 5, Whitethroat 2, Lesser Whitethroat 2, Menetries’s Warbler 1, Barred Warbler 1, Garden Warbler 7, Olivaceus Warbler 2, Willow Warbler 2, Thrush Nightingale 1, Yellow Wagtail 20, Tree Pipit 1, Black-eared Wheatear 3, Isabelline Wheatear 1, Redstart 1, Short-toed Lark 60, Common Rosefinch 1, Ortolan Bunting 1, Black-headed Bunting 6.
Black Kite (Milvus migrans)
Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo ssp. vulpinus) “Steppe Buzzard”
Booted Eagle (Hieraetus pennatus) Pale morph.
Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus ssp. samamisicus)
Menetries’s Warbler (Sylvia mystacea)