Today’s highlight was a flock of Penduline Tits. Richard Saval found the birds on previous day. So it was time to photograph these small masked beauties. Dead Sea Sparrows were still around too. I photographed  birds posted below together with Abdulmohsen Al-Suraye.

Penduline Tit 6, Dead Sea Sparrow 4, Spanish Sparrow 25, Chiffchaff 15, Red-breasted Flycatcher 3, Robin 1, Red-throated Pipit 1, Water Pipit 2, White Wagtail 2, Barbary/Peregrine Falcon 1, Kestrel 1, Sparrowhawk 2, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 3.

Penduline Tit (Remiz pendulinus)

Penduline Tit

Penduline Tit. Juvenile bird.

Dead Sea Sparrow

Dead Sea Sparrows 3, Spanish Sparrow 12.

Dead Sea Sparrow

The flock of at least 7 Dead Sea Sparows was today’s highlight as this was just 4th record for Kuwait.

Red-breasted Flycatcher 4, Chiffchaff 10+, Sparrowhawk 4, Water Pipit 8, Red-throated Pipit 1, White Wagtail 6, Dead Sea Sparrow 7, Spanish Sparrow 50+, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 2, Swallow 2, Skylark 1.

Dead Sea Sparrow (Passer moabiticus)

Dead Sea Sparrow

Dead Sea Sparrow. Male showing charasteristic yellow neck-side patch

Spanish Sparrow (Passer hispaniolensis)

Red-breasted Flycatcher (Ficedula parva)

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 right now.

Indian Roller 1, White-throated Kingfisher 2, Comon Buzzard 1, Blackcap 1, Lesser Whitethroat 2, Robin 1, White Wagtail 20, Yellow Wagtail 2, Common Myna 2, Bank Myna 2, Rose-necked Parakeet 5, Tree Pipit 1, Common Rosefinch 1, Wryneck 1, Laughing Dove 10, White-cheeked Bulbul 6.

Indian Roller (Coracias benghalensis)

Rose-necked Parakeet (Psittacula krameri)

Stone-Curlew 1, Black-winged Pratincole 1, Pied Wheatear 2, Gracefull Prinia 3, White-eared Bulbul 5, Eurasian Collared Dove 4, Laughing Dove 2, Blue-cheeked  Bee-eater 5.

Black-winged Pratincole

Sulaibikhat Bay: Isabelline Shrike 4, Pied Kingfisher 1, Bimaculated Lark 4, Oystercatcher 71, Pied Wheatear 4, Eurasian Coot 1, Whiskered Tern 4, Caspian Tern 1.

Jahra Farms: Bank Myna 2, Isabelline Shrike 2, Blackcap 1.

Eurasian Coot.

Pied Kingfisher.

Bimaculated Lark 5, Northern Wheatear 6, Pied Wheatear 3, Siberian Stonechat 1 (maurus ssp.), Marsh Harrier 2, Mallard 10, Northern Shoveler 20, Northern Pintail 20, Gadwall 4, Garganey 50.

Bimaculated Lark

Northern Wheatear

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 knows as these birds are notorious for their habit to change location day by day and only occasionally staying in the same place for a longer period.

Common Buzzard 1, Indian Roller 1, White-throated Kingfisher 2, Rose-ringed Parakeet 1, Laughing Dove 6, Isabelline Shrike 1, Yellow Wagtail 8, White Wagtail 1, Lesser Whitethroat 3, Garden Warbler 1, White-cheeked Bulbul 4. 

Indian Roller (Coracias benghalensis)

At JEO: Common Snipe 27, Little Ringed Plover 1, Water Rail 1, White Wagtail 1

At Sulaibiya Pivot Fields: White-tailed Lapwing 1, Steppe Eagle 2, Greater Spotted Eagle 4, Common Buzzard 6, Pallid Harrier 4, Montagu’s Harrier 2, Cattle Egret 54, Black Kite 6, Isabelline Shrike 1 (isabellinus ssp.), Isabelline Shrike (Phoenicuroides ssp. type ‘karelini’) 1, Little Ringed Plover 2, Common Ringed Plover 2, Blue-cheeked Bee-eater 30.

Montagu’s Harrier (juvenile)

Common Ringed Plover

Cattle Egret 69, Black Kite 17, Pallid Harrier 4, Greater Short-toed Lark 18, Common Buzzard 10,  Steppe Eagle 1, Northern Lapwing 6, Greater Spotted Eagle 5, Siberian Stonechat (maurus ssp) 1, Common Kestrel 2, Isabelline Shrike 2, Sand Martin 10, Purple Heron 1, Little Stint.

Greater Spotted Eagle (juvenile.)

A juvenile Eastern Imperial Eagle

Common Buzzard.

Common Buzzard.