From: James Christian <jc@james-christian.com>
Date: 2008-09-17 09:04
Subject: Whetears Here
Whetears Here
Hello All,
On September 13th I had my first northern whetear. On the 12th (I think it was) we had a massive rain in our part of laikipia which was a releif as we were beginning to feel quite dry. With the rain came three golden breasted starlings as well as a flock of fischer’s starlings. These guys live not far to the northeast of us but we seem to get sightings of them on our higher western ground only at this time of year.
A cisticola question: I have been calling our most common cisticola here rattling (I have also seen pectoral patch and tiny in the area). I just wonder about whether rattling should be the most common cisticola in Laikipia and if I’m putting the wrong name to the wrong bird . Thanks for any thoughts (we are on the ewaso nyiro river and east with lots of mixed acacia mellifera habitat and small black cotton grassy openings.
Also, some non bird, camera trap sightings that might be of interest below. Hope you all are well. Cheers, James Christian
Lolmelil the lion
http://tumaren.wildlifedirect.org/2008/09/16/lolmelil-the-lion/
Male Leopard on kill:
http://tumaren.wildlifedirect.org/2008/09/13/another-male-leopard-on-tumaren/
One Horned Lesser Kudu (is there a more western population of LKs?)
http://tumaren.wildlifedirect.org/2008/08/17/one-horned-lesser-kudu/
Honeybadger:
http://tumaren.wildlifedirect.org/2008/08/09/honeybadger-returns/
Aardvark:
http://tumaren.wildlifedirect.org/2008/08/01/aardvark-atlast/
Aardwolf:
http://tumaren.wildlifedirect.org/2008/07/22/aardwolf-improved/
Karisia Walking Safaris
http://www.karisia.com
Laikipia Conservation Blog
http://tumaren.wildlifedirect.org/
Photography
http://www.james-christian.com