From: Shailesh Kumar Patel <honeyguide_sk@yahoo.com>

Date: 2006-11-06 21:06

Subject: 5 days birding.

Hello Birders,

 

Well, as you know that whole of November is the Bird World Festival, so pls do take part in it by sending a complete list of birds seen in 24hrs from a bird atlas sq to Nature Kenya office or on www.worldbirds.org/kenya. For more info contact Nature Kenya on tel :- + 254 020 3749957, 3746090 or Catherine / Neema on this email :- office@naturekenya.org thank you.

 

For me, i did a 5 days birding tour with 2 American birders. We visited 6 birding spots like Limuru pond, Manguo pond, L.Naivasha, L.Nakuru N.P, Kakamega forest, Kisumu and L.Baringo. Lots of palaeactic migrant were seen like Yellow Wagtails, Barn Swallows and Waders during this trip.

 

Here are some of the few birds which we saw:-

 

1.L.Nakuru N.P.

   Grey-crested Helmet Shrikes - 5. Seen around baboon cliffs.

 

2.Kakamega Forest.

   Yellow-crested Woodpecker - 1.Hairy-breasted Barber - 1. Western Black-headed  Oriole - 1. All seen along the Pumphouse trail. 

 

3.L.Bringo.

   Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1.

 

Beside birds, we had one Giant Forest Squirrel along Ikuywa trail.

 

Happy Birding.

 

Shailesh