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.

Common Crane Grus grus 

Malcolmia grandiflora is spreading in large areas in the SAANR

General view of the Um Erimmam Wadi

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  a good alternative and it is safe for birds. Purple Swamp-hens are calling intensively and we can expect them to breed again. This is also the site for Basra Reed Warbler and many other species. Today I managed to photograph Little Crake, Baillon’s Crake, Little Grebe and Bluethroat.

Little Crake (Porzana parva)

Baillon’s Crake (Porzana pusilla)

Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)

Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica)

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 was at the lake we went there but it became dark and we had to leave.

Hume’s Wheatear Oenanthe alboniger

Trumpeter Finch Bucanetes githagineus