{"id":1497589,"date":"2017-05-27T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=8bf032ae54c2d29ac3f627cec2beb7c5"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:18:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:18:14","slug":"blandfords-lark-in-the-taleaa-valley-abha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/blandfords-lark-in-the-taleaa-valley-abha\/","title":{"rendered":"Blandford’s Lark in the Talea’a Valley – Abha"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Talea\u2019a 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

After a little searching we managed to located about twenty birds feeding in the stony areas and song flighting as well.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Blandfords Lark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blandfords Lark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blandfords Lark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Blandfords Lark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Talea\u2019a 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2148662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[8790,3108],"class_list":["post-1497589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-blandfords-lark","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}