Phil
Roberts and I went to Jubail to see if we could find anything interesting but
it ended up as a very quiet mornings birding. Easily the best bird seen was a
Common Blackbird a bird that has been around since 29 December 2016 but views
were brief and no photographs were obtained. The next best bird was a Steep
Eagle, a common winter visitor elsewhere in the Kingdom but not common in the
Eastern Province and rare in Jubail. The most obvious birds were Grey Headed
Swamphens with over ten seen but otherwise the best birds were a male Citrine
Wagtail, 100+ Common Shelduck, 100+ Pied Avocet, five Gretaer Spotted Eagles
and one Daurian Shrike.
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| Grey-headed Swamphen |
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| Daurian Shrike |