{"id":1985767,"date":"2018-06-02T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=87a0e10bfd4019619c73e0d9333af3e4"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:30:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:30:44","slug":"spring-birding-ash-shargiyah-development-company-farm-fadhili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/spring-birding-ash-shargiyah-development-company-farm-fadhili\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring birding – Ash Shargiyah Development Company Farm, Fadhili"},"content":{"rendered":"

A spring trip in early May to Ash Shargiyah Development Company Farm, Fadhili failed to produce much of interest. The best birds seen included Spur-winged Lapwing and Ruddy Turnstone.<\/p>\n

Spur-winged Lapwing may well be breeding at the site now as birds have been around all winter and most of last year. It was the first time I had seen Ruddy Turnstone at the location as it is more than 30 kilometres from the sea.<\/p>\n

There were good numbers of migrant Red-backed Shrikes and Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters present, with a few Willow Warblers and a single male Whinchat but very little else of interest.<\/p>\n

The location is normally excellent so it was a bit of a disappointing visit.<\/p>\n

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Red-backed Shrike<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Whinchat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A spring trip in early May to Ash Shargiyah Development Company Farm, Fadhili failed to produce much of interest. The best birds seen included Spur-winged Lapwing and Ruddy Turnstone. Spur-winged Lapwing may well be breeding at the site now as birds have been around all winter and most of last year. It was the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2148950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[4211,1303,2948,2209,1680,8178,2246,876],"class_list":["post-1985767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-ash-shargiyah-development-company-farm","tag-blue-cheeked-bee-eater","tag-lapwing","tag-red-backed-shrike","tag-ruddy-turnstone","tag-spur-winged-lapwing","tag-whinchat","tag-willow-warbler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985767","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=1985767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}