Bird of Kuwait Sightings - Birdwatching Tours
Indian Roller has stayed by now for more than two and half weeks – fingers crossed that it stays till next year. Bank Mynas are around as well as White-throated Kingfishers and Rose-necked Parakeets. Wintering birds arrive in variable numbers...
A brief visit to Jahra Farms after being back home (Finland) almost three weeks. Indian Roller was my earliest record ever in autumn. (Rashed had his first as early as 10 Oct.) Is this indicating good season for Indian Rollers? Actually nobody...
I spent morning at Tulha with Khalid Al-Ghanem. We were waiting raptors to drop to the pool to drink. Although the numbers of raptors were not high today a good variety f them compensated it. Juvenile Bonelli’s Eagle was a bit confusing but at home with...
Some 25 Steppe Buzzards were on migration but otherwise not many new birds were around. Egyptian Nightjar 1, Quail 1, Corncrake 2, Scops Owl 1, Black-crowned Night Heron 1, Steppe Buzzard 25, Black Kite 2, Sparrowhawk 2, Pallid...
A quick check of Jahra Farms this morning produced few records and photographs. Common Cuckoo 1, Garden Warbler 2, Lesser Whitethroat 2, Olivaceous Warbler 1, Bank Myna 1, White-throated Kingfisher 1, Common Snipe 1, Yellow Wagtail 20+. Common...
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,...
Isolated farm in the middle of desert surely draws birds attention. Actually it offers much needed relief to them. Leaking taps and water reservoir are visited by hundreds if not thousands of birrds on their way to wintering grounds. Black Kite 15,...
SAANR and pool at Tulha allways atracts birds. Juvenile Cuckoo had arrived and it was as exhausted as other migrants in hot weather. An other new migrant was European Nightjar. European Nightjar 1, Common Cuckoo 1, Southern Grey Shrike 5, Masked...
Once again Pivot Fields produced new species for this season. They were two White Storks (Initially found by Musaeed Al-Saleh) and three Caspian Plovers. White Stork 2, Ruff 20+, Common Snipe 1, Green Sandpiper 1, Northern Lapwing 1,...
It was a surprise not to see any raptor in Tulha although Al Abraq was flooded with raptors on previous day. With a kind help by Khalid Al-Ghanem I managed to get both photographs shown below. Common Quail...
It was soon obvious that raptor migration had started. First for this autumn were Steppe Eagle, Booted Eagle and Pallid Harrier. Also Ortolan Bunting was new. Steppe Eagle 1, Booted Eagle 1, Montagu’s Harrier 1, Pallid Harrier 3,...
Tulha produced quite typical species of this time of the year. Isabelline Shrike embraced it’s notorius reputation to hit small birds around. This time one poor Yellow Wagtail lost it’s life. It looks like that Shrike is interested only of...
First for this autumn were Spotted Eagle, Northern Lapwing and Tawny Pipit with which I didn’t have luck in photographingi them. Great Bittern n:o 2 had moved 1 km NW and was enjoying waterspray from irrigation system. Montagu’s Harrier 3,...
Again new species turned up in Al Abraq. Todays’s highlight was Grasshopper Warbler which is not very rare but rarely seen well and hardly ever before photographed in Kuwait. This time Mike, Ian and myself were lucky enough to...
After quite empty handed trip to Abdaly I decided to visit Jahra Farms once again. Rashed Al-Hajji was there and he kindly helped me to get finally nice shots of Golden Oriole. According to Rashed also Eastern Bonelli’s...
I was tempted to visit Pivot Fields again this morning like Khalid Al-Ghanem too in hope to get some good pictres of Great Bittern. While photographing we noticed that there must be two birds and indeed my two...