{"id":815036,"date":"2016-03-05T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=b9c91f9955a28e841cfb3863543d3c50"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:05:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:05:06","slug":"western-marsh-harrier-with-prey-sabkhat-al-fasl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/western-marsh-harrier-with-prey-sabkhat-al-fasl\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Marsh Harrier with prey \u2013 Sabkhat Al Fasl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst birding at Sabkhat Al Fasl we saw a Western Marsh Harrier trying to pick up what looked like a dead fish from the side of the flooded sabkha. This spectacle was very interesting so we stopped and took a few photos of the proceedings.<\/p>\n

As the bird was interested in the prey it was less wary of us than is normal allowing us to take a few nice photographs of it as it flew around and whilst it was trying to pick up and retrieve the item on the mud.<\/p>\n

As we watched it became clear that the item of food was not a dead fish as first suspected but a dead Little Grebe and the bird made several attempts to collect and move the Little Grebe but the dead bird was a little too heavy for the Western Marsh Harrier and after about ten minutes it left the bird and flew off.<\/p>\n

As a result of the action and the closeness to the bird a good series of photographs was taken and some are shown below.<\/p>\n

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Whilst birding at Sabkhat Al Fasl we saw a Western Marsh Harrier trying to pick up what looked like a dead fish from the side of the flooded sabkha. This spectacle was very interesting so we stopped and took a few photos of the proceedings. As the bird was interested in the prey it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2196403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-feJa2Kzq-sA\/VmAEKL5cTPI\/AAAAAAAAW3I\/K9B6mKHWaSE\/s1600\/Western_Marsh_Harrier.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1132,829],"class_list":["post-815036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-sabkhat-al-fasl","tag-western-marsh-harrier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815036","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=815036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}