08/10/2020 Indian Roller at Pivot Fields
I paid a short visit to the Sulaibiya Pivot Fields for the Indian Roller, found yesterday by Aju P John. After about half an hour, the bird was just overhead along the road!Today’s highlight:...
Category: Sightings
07/10/2020 at Al Abraq
This morning at Al Abraq I met Khaled Al-Ghanem and Abdulmohsen Al-Surayea. We stayed chatting together and birding this oasis for three hours.Highlights of the day, again Crested Honey Buzzards and Shikras. They are...
05/10/2020 at Pivot Fields
A morning visit to Pivot Fields produced the following: Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto 80, Namaqua Dove Oena capensis 2, Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus 13, Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus 1, Spur-winged Lapwing Vanellus spinosus 6, White-tailed Lapwing Vanellus...
04/10/2020 at Al Abraq
An early morning visit to Al Abraq produced 3 Shikras, Ménétries’s Warbler and Common Quail.The list of today include the following: Common Quail Coturnix coturnix 1, Laughing Dove Streptopelia senegalensis 2, Shikra Accipiter badius...
30/09/2020 at Al Abraq
I arrived at Al Abraq at 6:30 to find both Mike Pope and Khaled Al-Ghanem arrived 30 minutes ahead of me.We moved around then stopped in the shade watching raptors as they come and...
27/09/2020 at Al-Abraq
This morning, again I went to Al-Abraq, early in the morning. I arrived an hour after sunrise and raptors started flying around low in the farm. They were lots of Black-eared Kites, Steppe Buzzards...
21/09/2020 at Al-Abraq
An early morning visit to Al Abraq showed little migration. At the beginning I had an Arabian Grey Shrike which is a very rare bird in Kuwait (11 records), although it had bred a...
14/09/2015 at Mutla’a Ranch
A short visit to Mutla’a Ranch produced the following species, migration in Autumn is quick so most of the birds stop over for a couple of days or so and leave. Booted Warbler was...
07/11/2019 at Jahra Farms and Jal Al-Zor
This morning I went to Jahra Farms, having a feeling that the Black-throated Thrush should have arrived by now as two weeks earlier one was found in Pivot Fields. I didn’t find any interesting...
04/11/2019 at Khiran and Sabah Al Ahmad Reedbeds
In preparing for the Autumn Tour I went to the south of Kuwait in search of a wintering Red-tailed Wheatear. After half an hour search I managed to find one. I was also waiting...
03/11/2019 The Lesser Flamingo is still here
I visited Sulaibikhat Bay this morning, it was easy to relocate the Lesser Flamingo at the KISR (Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research) side. Unfortunately, early in the morning, I heard through a local WhatsApp...
30/11/2019 at Pivot Fields and Kabd Reserve
In the morning, I went to Kabd Reserve after I had obtained a permit. I searched for the Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark, but it seems that the good rain we had last year had given then...
18/09/2019 at Sulaibikhat Bay, Great Knot at Sulaibikhat Bay!
Great Knot at Sulaibikhat Bay! Yesterday I suspected a bird being a Great Knot. It was too distant to see any detail about it, but its jizz and colour matches Great Knot, although legs...
19/09/2019 at Mutla’a Ranch
Today it was nice to see a Hume’s Whitethroat. Although it is full species in IOC since v4.4 2014 (I could only trace it back to IOC 4.4), Clements Checklist update August 2019 has...
17/09/2019 at Pivot Fields
It was quiet today, only the Woodpigeon happened to arrive early this year. Some good numbers of Cattle Egrets and Western Yellow Wagtails. Common Woodpigeon Columba palumbus 1, Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto 74, Laughing...
12/09/2019 at Pivot Fields
Today I spent some time checking every harrier trying to find Montagu’s Harriers as much as I can. Montagu’s Harriers are passage migrant only in Kuwait. There passage is quick unlike the Pallid Harrier...