The Talea’a Valley near Abha is in the Asir
mountains in southwest Saudi Arabia and is a large upland wadi with stony
ground and acacia trees growing in the bottom. The valley is hot and dry and
any area of water attracts a steady stream of birds in the summer coming down
to drink so are worth looking at if found so a small wet area near a dam looked
promising especially as we had seen Blandfords Lark in this area last year.
After a little searching we managed to located about twenty birds feeding in
the stony areas and song flighting as well. We were there at just after midday
so the light was very harsh making photography difficult but I took a few
reasonable photos of this difficult to see species.
