From: moses khazalwa <kori2bustard@yahoo.com>
Date: 2008-10-23 08:06
Subject: RE: [KENYABIRDSNET] Dry and wet

Greetings all, i did organise a birdwalk with 12 youths from my village,we went to a forest at shiru along  chavakali-kapsabet rd,opp. williamson tea factory,this forest forms part of kakamega forest,eastern side.for 3hrs we saw: BLUE FLYCATCHER,PARADISE FLYCATCHER,BLUE SPOTTED WOODDOVE,TURNERS ERAMOMELA,HADADA IBIS,DOUBLE TOOTHED BARBET,YELLOW WHITEEYE,WHITE BROWED ROBIN CHAT,SINGING CISTICOLA,my favourite GREY HEADED NEGROFINCH,DUSKY FLYCATCHER,BLCK&WHT CSQD HORNBILL.after 3hrs it started raining. cheers

Fleur Ng'weno wrote: 
>  Greetings birders 
> On 19 October Nature Kenya’s Sunday Birdwatch traveled through Kitengela on a road that paralleled the southern edge of Nairobi National Park, about half a kilometre away. 
> At Athi River conditions were desperately dry, the land parched and the grass grey. As we drove west, green shoots and rock violets leaves appeared in the overgrazed grasslands. Black mud and slippery conditions finally brought us to a stop in a thick acacia grove, one ridge south of Hippo Pools in the Park. 
> We were welcomed by a flock of delightful White-crested Helmet-shrikes and a singing Greater Honeyguide. 
> On the way back, about halfway along the road and close to the park boundary, we recorded an Eastern Pale Chanting Goshawk and a couple of Short-tailed Larks; a beautiful male Pallid Harrier swooped from the Park over the grasslands. 
> Wishing you good birding, Fleur 
>