{"id":1886773,"date":"2018-03-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=f4cfe848afc4893e940f2e09ca093da3"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:27:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:27:54","slug":"western-marsh-harrier-al-asfar-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/western-marsh-harrier-al-asfar-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Marsh Harrier \u2013 Al Asfar Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to Al Asfar Lake near to Hufuf recently and saw over fifty Western Marsh Harriers. I managed to get a number of reasonable photographs with a couple of two birds playing in the air together.<\/p>\n

The Western Marsh Harrier is a winter visitor to Saudi Arabia and they always occur in areas of extensive reed beds and open water.<\/p>\n

Birds turn up in September and depart abut March or April each year with the best sites in the Eastern Province being Sabkhat Al Fasl and Al Asfar Lake.<\/p>\n

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Western Marsh Harrier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Western Marsh Harrier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Western Marsh Harrier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Western Marsh Harrier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Western Marsh Harrier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I went to Al Asfar Lake near to Hufuf recently and saw over fifty Western Marsh Harriers. I managed to get a number of reasonable photographs with a couple of two birds playing in the air together. The Western Marsh Harrier is a winter visitor to Saudi Arabia and they always occur in areas of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2148894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[724,1132,3108,829],"class_list":["post-1886773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-marsh-harrier","tag-sabkhat-al-fasl","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-western-marsh-harrier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886773","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=1886773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}