From: TButynski@aol.com
Date: 2008-08-07 04:31
Subject: Re: Fw: [KENYABIRDSNET] Golden-winged Sunbird
 
Hi,
 
I have been travelling...and now catching up on my email.
 
I too have seen golden-winged sunbirds in Nairobi...near the Carnivore and, as I recall, in openings within Ololua Forest...but just for a few weeks each year...when it is coldest..and perhaps wettest...in the Aberdares.  Same for the grey cuckoo-shrike!
 
Cheers, Tom

In a message dated 7/21/2008 8:35:44 A.M. E. Africa Standard Time, honeyguide_sk@yahoo.com writes:

Hello Birders,

 Well, you do get Golden-winged Sunbirds in Nairobi. They appear here during this month went it is too cold up highlands. So that migrant to lowlands like Nairobi.

 

Shailesh

--- On Sat, 7/19/08, Davidson Mike <davidson@africaonline.co.ke> wrote:

From: Davidson Mike <davidson@africaonline.co.ke>
Subject: [KENYABIRDSNET] Golden-winged Sunbird
To: "kenyabirdsnet@yahoogroups.com" <kenyabirdsnet@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008, 2:05 PM

Dear all

looking out at breakfast yesterday on the bird bath in my nairobi
garden , there was a Golden-winged Sunbird , to my surprise .

In Bill Harvey's checklist of Nairobi birds , its stated as rare , and
I always understood it to be a highland bird , coming off the Aberdares
in winter to warmer places like Naivasha , where I have seen them .

How rare is this ?

Mike D





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