{"id":2057748,"date":"2019-04-07T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=903eed69460fdd5c73f31a64ff83dd39"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:42:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:42:03","slug":"last-wintering-species-still-around-khafra-marsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/last-wintering-species-still-around-khafra-marsh\/","title":{"rendered":"Last wintering species still around \u2013 Khafra Marsh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst birding the Khafra Marsh area in mid-March I saw a few wintering species still present. A few Western Siberian Stonechats were seen in the reeds and bushes along the side of a track with some resident Graceful Prinia for company.<\/p>\n

The waters edge held both Purple Heron and Squacco Heron as well as a nice Citrine Wagtail. Quite a few wintering Red-spotted Bluethroats were around but very difficult to photograph as were the Water Pipits seen in good numbers.<\/p>\n

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Migrants were also around with up to ten singing Savis Warblers a notable record and plenty of Common Chiffchaffs. A nice Turkestan Shrike was present but kept its distance. Many of these winter species will be disappearing in the next month to be replaced by migrants and summer breeders.<\/p>\n

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Western Siberian Stonechat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Western Siberian Stonechat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Western Siberian Stonechat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Citrine Wagtail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Graceful Prinia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Graceful Prinia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Purple Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red-spotted Bluethroat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Squacco Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Whilst birding the Khafra Marsh area in mid-March I saw a few wintering species still present. A few Western Siberian Stonechats were seen in the reeds and bushes along the side of a track with some resident Graceful Prinia for company. The waters edge held both Purple Heron and Squacco Heron as well as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2149198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[739,776,935,1259,882,2420,2084,883,824,877],"class_list":["post-2057748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-bluethroat","tag-chiffchaff","tag-citrine-wagtail","tag-graceful-prinia","tag-purple-heron","tag-red-spotted-bluethroat","tag-siberian-stonechat","tag-squacco-heron","tag-turkestan-shrike","tag-water-pipit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057748","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=2057748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}