Trip to Egypt 19.2 – 4.3.2010
This is a brief report about our trip to Egypt especially regarding WP-species. My wife Tiina flew from Finland to Cairo and I flew there from Kuwait via Luxor. First morning we checked wadi El Natrum for Kittlitz’s...
Sightings
09/02/2010 at SAANR
Kuwait had good rain this year so the Sabah Al-Ahmad Natural Reserve, at the pool there were the five Common Cranes, they were first seen on 13/01/2010.
08/02/2010 at Jahra Pool Reserve
Jahra Pool Reserve is very much welcomed site with fresh water and reedbeds. It provides excellent environment for those birds that we used to find at Jarra East Outfall. The latter one being under threat we have now ...
05/02/2010 at SAANR, the Hume’s Wheatear is still there!
Ouda Al-Bathali and I went in the afternoon to SAANR to search for the Hume’s Wheatear, we found it later in the same wadi as described and found a Trumpeter Finch in the same wadi. Later we heard a Common Crane...
30/01/2010 South of Kuwait
After seeing and photographing the Pharaoh Eagle Owl in Saudi Arabia two days ago, today I managed to see and photograph another bird in Kuwait! Rashed had found the bird this morning at 10 am and most of...
29/01/2010 at Abraq Al Habari
Same group than yesterday added with Rick Saval and Brian Foster visited Al Abraq this morning. As it often happens in the beginning the place looked dead, like it had been last two weeks, then suddenly things started...
28/01/2010 at Kabd Reserve and Sulaibiya Pivot Fields
I was able to visit today Kabd with Andy Clifton, Alan Clewes and Richard Bonser. After seeing Hume’s Wheatear at SAANR during previous days we wanted to check what is the situation of larks in Kabd which is...
27/01/2010 a one day trip to Saudi Arabia, south of Kuwait border by 25Km.
We Saad Al-Nouri, Ouda Al-Bathali and AbdulRahman Al-Sirhan wanted to explore the Wadi Al-Batin, it is situated close to the border between Kuwait and Iraq and closed for security reasons, our aim was to search for some plants and birds, so we...
23/01/2010 Hume’s Wheatear continues wintering in SAANR
I visited the site this morning with Abdulmohsen Al-Suraye and Khaled Al-Ghanem. In early morning after cold night +10C the bird spent considerably long time just warming up. By 9.30 it started to catch insects. It shares big...
20/01/2010 at SAANR
I visited SAANR today to check whether Hume’s Wheatear is still present and it surely is. I tried to relocate Common Cranes but they were gone. As a new feature I encountered a flock of 100+ Lesser Short-toed...
16/01/2010 second record of Lesser Flamingo for Kuwait
I was doing our regular wader count with Brian in Doha area when Rashed Al-Hajji called and told that he had found Lesser Flamingo. We had to rush quickly to the site near Maturnity Hospital in Sulaibikhat. (Same...
13/01/2010 Hume’s Wheatear is still in SAANR
Back in Kuwait and immediately I had to check whether our gem is still present and it is. Personally the bird of the day was Common Crane. I saw 5 of them in SAANR (5th record for Kuwait...
16/12/2009 at Jahra Pool Reserve
On 14/12/2009 Khaled Al-Ghanem found three Great Crested Grebes, a rare bird in Kuwait, at the eastern part of Jahra Pool Reserve (a coastal area). Great Crested Grebe 3, Eurasian Wigeon 63, Common Shelduck 3
04/12/2009 at Jahra Farms
Simon Price and myself found first Woodlark and later on Richard Saval spotted Chaffinch. We saw also several Bank Mynas, two White-throated Kingfishers and few Rose-ringed Parakeets. Woodlark (Lullula arborea) Photograph by Pekka Fågel Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) Photograph...
2/12/2009 two Ferruginous Ducks at Jahra Pool 7th record and an Oriental Turtle Dove also the 7th record seen on 6/11/2009
Two Ferruginous Ducks were seen today 2 December 2009 at Jahra Pool Reserve by Khaled Al-Ghanem, this is the 7th record for Kuwait. Also during our trip to Yemen Mohd Khorshed has found the 7th record for Kuwait of...
First White-tailed Eagle for Kuwait
Correction to aging of the bird. I received today a comment from Matti Lammin-Soila stating “This is juvenile, 1cy bird.(fresh plumage, all feathers of the same age, no moult etc.)” —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The bird was found by Ouda Al-Bathali...