From: Pat and Maia Hemphill <pat_maia@bigame.com>
Date: 2004-01-25 11:17
Subject: Pelagic birds and Eurasian Roller

My computer has been down for the past ten days, is now back. The 
following records from Shimoni.
24th October 2003:  One Brown Booby off Funzi, South Coast.

28th/29th November 2003  Small flock of  Red Necked Phalaropes in the 
centre of the Pemba Channel off Shimoni

17th December 2003 1 Wedge tailed Shearwater in Pemba Channel over 
the Pemba Island side.

29th December 2003 One Masked Booby in centre of Pemba Channel		

29th December 2003 One Eurasian Roller in our garden, sitting in the 
baobab in front of our house next to a Broad-billed roller. It then 
flew to another baobab near the house and sat there for some time and 
we had a very good view of it. It was the first time that I have seen 
a Eurasian Roller here and it was only here for one day.

30th December to 2nd Jan 2004 Flock of White throated Bee eaters in 
the garden and a Carmine Beeeaters hawking over the entrance to the 
Wasin channel at 6.30 a,m,

Maia Hemphill  

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Pat and Maia Hemphill
Sea Adventures Ltd., P.O. Box 348, Ukunda, Kenya
Tel : +254 127 52220
Fax : + 254 11 227675
Email : pat&maia@bigame.com
Website : http://www.bigame.com
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