Mixed Grill

Turkestan Shrike

Today we started at South Doha Nature Reserve where we birded the pools, reeds and surrounding shrubs during the morning. Some nice birds were a Clamorous Reed Warbler, three seistanicus Purple Swamphens, an adult Eastern Imperial Eagle and some Isabelline Shrikes.

Clamorous Reed Warbler

Daurian Shrike

Chiffchaff

Then we moved on to Doha Spit and Doha North, but since it was low tide there wasn’t anything to see at all. We had found out that the place we thought was Doha Spit that we had visited earlier in fact was just a part of Sulaibikhat Bay, but now we got it right. To cheer ourselves up after this we went to our standard falafel place and had lunch with the gulls in Sulaibikhat Bay.

A quite unfortunate young Flamingo

At Sulaibikhat we also met the Belgian team and showed them the way to Jahra East Outfall where Abdulrahman met us all in the afternoon. JEO was a really nice site with lots of pipits and wagtails, including two Citrine Wagtails and a probable Buff-bellied Pipit. The place was also crowded by lots of other birds, such as waders, herons and quite a few raptors, including a juvenile Eastern Imperial Eagle. Gunshots were heard in the distance and we found one dead and one wounded Pallid Swift...

JEO

Greater Spotted Eagle

Citrine Wagtail

Pallid Swift

Late in the afternoon we made a desperate try at Doha Spit again but the light was too poor. All we could find that was of interest was 150 Crab Plovers and two Pallas’s Gulls, a first-year bird and an adult.

Bitter Little

Tomorrow we’ll go to the southeast part of the country and try to find something mega. Adios!