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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