The last few days on the ‘patch’ have
been interesting but still only a few birds are present. There have, however,
been a number of different species passing through that have kept the interest
levels up. One such bird was an adult type Steppe Eagle flying over the Golf
Course. I had not seen Steppe Eagle in Dhahran until this autumn but this is
now my third sighting so, hopefully, it will be a good year for raptors. I did not have my camera with me when I saw the Steppe Eagle but Viv Wilson took a very nice photo of a similar bird at Tabuk this week and kindly sent it to me and allowed me to use it on my website which is shown below.
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| Steppe Eagle |
Other birds of interest were four
Eurasian Skylarks feeding around on one of the football fields with the large
numbers of Water Pipits and White Wagtails. I was hoping one may be a Small
Skylark, but unfortunately they were not. An Isabelline Wheatear was the first
record of that species I have seen on the camp for a few weeks and the number
of Western Cattle Egrets have now built up to a minimum of thirty birds.
Another interesting sight was a number of small flocks of Great Cormorants
flying over looking to see if the percolation pond had water in it, but
unluckily for them it is still dry.
