lördag 22 december 2007

First day of birding

Yo! Today we spent all day with the local birder Abdulrahman Al-Sirhan, who kindly showed us many nice sites and birds around Kuwait city. A rather strong northern wind was present all day, but the sun was shining.

White-cheeked Bulbul

Daurian Shrike


We started at Sulaibikhat NR and Doha Spit but couldn’t find the Long-tailed Shrike or the Lesser Flamingo. However, we got some really nice gull and wader watching at Doha Spit.

Among the large white-headed gulls at Doha Spit we managed to identify cachinnans, barabensis, armenicus, fuscus, heuglini and a few large, pale heuglini types, probably taymyrensis.

Isabelline Wheatear


The afternoon was spent at the Pivot Fields where we saw the Little Curlew and the Red-wattled Lapwing, an Oriental Skylark, the Nile Crocodiles and of course many other birds.


Little Curlew


Red-wattled Lapwing

On our way back to the hotel we worked hard to survive the heavy Saturday afternoon traffic. The evening was spent exploring our surroundings, where we found a big supermarket, KFC, Burger King, Pizza Hut and other vital stuff.

Siberian Stonechat

Now we REALLY have some catching up to do on our sleep, so goodnight!

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