--- Heather.ELKINS@cec.eu.int wrote:

> From: Heather.ELKINS@cec.eu.int
> To: itaisha1@yahoo.com
> Subject: RE: [KENYABIRDSNET] migration notice...
> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 06:07:02 +0100 
> 
> In response to James Christian's query
> 
> 
> Black collared Apalis appeared in our garden in
> Karen (Nandi road), where
> there is lots of cover, some years ago - although
> they might have been there
> before and we'd simply overlooked them as we were
> not so keen on birding
> then - you could trace them easily from their call -
> very vocal  - and if
> you moved quietly you could get quite close to them.
>   We believe they bred
> in the garden as at one time there was a family
> party with young (2 I
> think).   However, in the last year they seem to
> have disappeared again.  
> (We do not have a cat for obvious reasons, but of
> late two or three
> relatively well fed cats seem to have taken up part
> time residence in the
> garden - and we have been unable to get rid of them
> - I sincerely hope they
> are not the cause of the departure of the Apalis!)  
> 
> 
> Heather Elkins 
> Social & Environment Section 
> Delegation of the European Commission
> P O Box 45119, 
> 00100 Nairobi, Kenya 
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