--- nicholas nalianya <nicolongclaw@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 06:55:38 -0800 (PST)
> From: nicholas nalianya <nicolongclaw@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Possible spotted crake!!
> To: "kenyabirdnet_mod <kenyabirdnet_mod@yahoo.com>"
> <kenyabirdnet_mod@yahoo.com>
> 
> Hallo Birders,
> While counting Water birds in Nakuru we saw a crake
> that we Identified us a spotted crake. In my team of
> four I spotted this shy bird and quickly pointed it
> out to my mates. The most stricking feature I noted
> before sharing my pair of binoculars to one of us
> was
> - the yellow bill and the red base of the bill
> especially on upper mandible, the spotted back,
> greyish underparts and head and light under tail
> coverts. Mwoki who we were counting with also saw
> the
> bird very well(we managed to take more notes too)
> and
> looking at the book and the description in the text
> we
> ended up councluding it to be a spotted crake!
> This was below the WCK hostels shore line.
> Nico.
>  
> 
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