Driving south to Salalah from Muscat I enjoyed seeing some of the Birds of Dhofar.
Several pairs of Red Billed Tropic Birds and a flock of Crab Plovers were highlights on the coast; as always terns were in abundance and an occasional Osprey surveyed from its lookout post.
Once inside the mountain crescent around Salalah I caught sight of a pair of Bruce’s Green Pigeon along with a few African Paradise Flycatchers and Grey Headed Kingfishers.
It was a different story from that avian abundance when I drove along part of the Rub Al Khali – The Empty Quarter. Empty is a descriptive word but climbing to the crest of a sand dune towards sunset – my shadow cascaded down the dune slope and ahead into a vast expanse of a flat plain – which was almost, but not quite, empty.
You will get a more complete overview of Dhofar with my book ‘The Land of Frankincense’ which is available as an eBook here, and paperback through Amazon worldwide.
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