Whilst birding the Jubail area in late
March, it became obvious a good number of migrants had arrived. There were a
good number of Tree Pipits scattered around, several late Water Pipits and a
single Spotted Crake wandered out onto dome vegetation near the edge of a wet
area, briefly. More than ten birds of both Daurian Shrike & Turkestan
Shrike were seen and plenty of Pied Wheatears were also located. Seven Greater
Spotted Eagles and ten Western Marsh Harriers were still present, but will be
leaving very shortly back to their breeding grounds. Small groups of Snipe were
seen occasionally but every bird we got close views of turned out to be Common
Snipe. Several very bright male Black-headed Wagtail were also located
indicating the start of passage for the species where many different subspecies
should turn up in the next few weeks.
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| Black-headed Yellow Wagtail |
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| Black-headed Yellow Wagtail |
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| Common Shrike |
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| Daurian Shrike |
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| Turkestan Shrike |
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| Spotted Crake |