From: ikawaj <victor@ikawa.info>
Date: 2006-06-19 06:29
Subject: hells gate
Hallo birders,
My friends and I(Stella, Zack,Setian, Ray,Rosanne) managed to see
these birds over this last weekend of 17/18 in both hells gate and two
camps of Crayfish and Lake Naivasha resort.
1. Scarlet chested sunbird(2)
2. Variable sunbirds (2 pairs)
3. Hadada ibis (30)
4. Hildebrandt starling(2)
5. Superb starling(over 100 in both Lake Naivasha resort, hells gate
and crayfish camp
6. Fischers lovebirds(4)
7. Speckled pigeon(4)
8. White browed robin chat(1)
9. Jacksons widowbird(4)
10.Magpie starlings (but we debated the 6 we saw)white wings in flight
but generally grey-sooty
11. Common drongo (2)
12. Nubian woodpecker(2)
13.Ruppells starling(6)
14. Long toed plover (6)
15. Black headed heron (1)
16 Grey heron (2)
17. White storks(2)
18.Yellow billed stork(1)
19. Common fiscal shrikes(40)
20. Baglafecht weaver(2)
21. Blacksmith lapwing (1)
22. Hamerkop(1)
23. Lemon dove !!(1)
24. Grey apalis(1)
25. Ruppell Griffon(4)
26. Black kites(6)
27. Great white pelican(2 groups)
28. Pied kingfisher(2)
29. Slaty eyed flycatcher(2)
30. Cattle egret(6)
31. Sacred ibis(1)
32. Egyptian geese(10 very loud birds)
33. White fronted bee eater- 2
34. Two lovely pin tailed whydahs near the geysers
35. approx 50 common waxbills in total over the two days
36. Whistling cisticola(1)
we also heard the tropical boubou and a pipit near the drepanolobium
at the gate to hell but were unable to locate them.
Ikawa