{"id":723011,"date":"2015-12-09T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=cad432d4a948290d6f0e9190c2f38964"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:01:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:01:10","slug":"waders-winterers-and-residents-sabkhat-al-fasl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/waders-winterers-and-residents-sabkhat-al-fasl\/","title":{"rendered":"Waders, Winterers and residents \u2013 Sabkhat Al Fasl"},"content":{"rendered":"

My last trip to Sabkhat Al Fasl produced a number of waders of various species including the highest number of Marsh Sandpipers I have seen for a while. Most waders were Dunlins with good numbers of Common Ringed Plover scattered amongst them.<\/p>\n

A few smart plumaged Kentish Plovers were feeding around the shoreline and a single Grey Plover was also present. Waders seen inland included Green Sandpiper and Common Snipe. Wintering species seen included good numbers of Greater Spotted Eagles and Western Marsh Harriers and a single Water Rail although others were heard calling from the reed beds.<\/p>\n

A few European Stonechats, plenty of Water Pipits and White Wagtails plus several Bluethroats were all seen along the edges to the reed beds. Squacco Herons were still around in good numbers as were Grey Herons and a singe Purple Heron was located in amongst them.<\/p>\n

Three species of Kingfisher were also seen including Common Kingfisher, Pied Kingfisher and White-breasted Kingfisher and good numbers of Grey-headed Swamphens made up the good birds seen.<\/p>\n

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Marsh Sandpiper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dunlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Common Ringed Plover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grey Plover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Common Snipe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Greater Spotted Eagle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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European Stonechat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pied Kingfishers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pied Kingfishers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pied Kingfishers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Water Rail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Squacco Heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grey-headed Swamphen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grey-headed Swamphen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My last trip to Sabkhat Al Fasl produced a number of waders of various species including the highest number of Marsh Sandpipers I have seen for a while. Most waders were Dunlins with good numbers of Common Ringed Plover scattered amongst them. A few smart plumaged Kentish Plovers were feeding around the shoreline and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2196301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_hltJzUNSMw\/VlNFQAPeHhI\/AAAAAAAAW0E\/COMBZEy63dU\/s1600\/Marsh_Sandpiper.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[739,875,1023,748,1030,2335,751,1025,724,2756,2618,883,829,781],"class_list":["post-723011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-bluethroat","tag-common-kingfisher","tag-common-ringed-plover","tag-common-snipe","tag-dunlin","tag-greater-spotted-eagle","tag-green-sandpiper","tag-kentish-plover","tag-marsh-harrier","tag-marsh-sandpiper","tag-pied-kingfisher","tag-squacco-heron","tag-western-marsh-harrier","tag-white-wagtail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723011","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=723011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}