Today we will visit the parks where the guide expects to find new species. We start with the Ain Razat Park at the Wadi Razat. For me it is a good photo stop because the birds are fed with (what appears to be) food scraps. That always helps, especially in a desert.
Wadi Darbat Park was the first place where there seemed to be enough water. Trees, orchards and a park where you can rent pedal boats. We see a young Imperial Eagle there, and a little further a White-winged Tern. Here too the vireo concert is successful, we see among other things a Hoopoe, a Blackstart and a lot of Abyssinian White-eyes.
We continue east, to an increasingly higher mountain top. The goal is the Jabal Samhan viewpoint, where you can look more than a kilometer into the depths. The target was a Verreaux's Eagle, which sometimes soars along the cliff. And a couple did, but unfortunately I couldn't take a picture.
The last stop is the Tawi Atair Sink Hole. This time we find the Cinnamon-breasted Bunting and especially the Yemen Serin. The Serin is only locally found in Oman, most populations are in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
After that we go to the airport, for a night in airplanes and airports.
