{"id":1619645,"date":"2017-08-27T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=18b2b1a0e3cf95a993bd8d056fc7fe5b"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:21:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:21:38","slug":"some-southwest-specialities-phils-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/some-southwest-specialities-phils-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Some southwest specialities \u2013 Phil\u2019s Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"

I visited Phil\u2019s Fields three times in July 2017 and saw a lot of good birds in the area. Some of the birds seen were summer visitors from Africa and others specialities of the southwest of the Kingdom. The area is a set of three large pivot irrigation fields and surrounding trees edging the fields and scrubby land to the side.<\/p>\n

The pivot irrigation equipment is always good for birds to perch on when they are disturbed from the fields and this visit I saw a large flock of Indian Silverbills, twenty Western Cattle Egrets and a couple of Arabian Babblers. The fields are the best place I know of for seeing both Zitting Cisticola and Singing Bush Lark but is also good for White-throated Bee-eater and White-spectacled Bulbul.<\/p>\n

Other birds seen included House Sparrow and a fly over Yellow-billed Kite. This site is an excellent birding location and one I visit every time I am in the area and it always turns up good birds.<\/p>\n

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African Silverbill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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African Silverbill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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African Silverbill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Arabian Babbler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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House Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Western Cattle Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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White-spectacled Bulbul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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White-throated Bee-eater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Yellow-billed Kite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Zitting Costicola<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSubscribe to our FREE Newsletter<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n

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I visited Phil\u2019s Fields three times in July 2017 and saw a lot of good birds in the area. Some of the birds seen were summer visitors from Africa and others specialities of the southwest of the Kingdom. The area is a set of three large pivot irrigation fields and surrounding trees edging the fields […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2148755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[9004,2946,1634,7786,2473,1065,9003,9002,3035,2389],"class_list":["post-1619645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-african-silverbill","tag-arabian-babbler","tag-cattle-egret","tag-house-sparrow","tag-indian-silverbill","tag-western-cattle-egret","tag-white-spectacled-bulbul","tag-white-throated-bee-eater","tag-yellow-billed-kite","tag-zitting-cisticola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619645","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=1619645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}