Purple Sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus)

Bird watching in Oman and driving along the coastal road between the Bimmah Sinkhole and Ras AlShajer Nature Reserve to see if I could get any pictures of the Egyptian Vulture.

There is a lot of other birds along the road.

Purple Sunbird in eclipse plumage

Listen to the bird here: https://www.xeno-canto.org/444467

Recorded with my ZOOM H5 Handy recorder. High pass filter applied in Audacity

Bird feeding from a bush with flowers along the road. The bird was scared and when my car came I parked next to the bush and the bird came back after 5 minutes. Picture and recording from inside the car
The very same bird you can see on the picture