From: Fleur Ng'weno <fleur@africaonline.co.ke>
Date: 2009-09-23 14:54
Subject: Baillon's Crake, Greater Flamingo on Wednesday Birdwalk
Baillon's Crake, Greater Flamingo on Wednesday Birdwalk
Greetings
It was a fabulous morning for Nature Kenya's Wednesday Morning Birdwalk at Sukari Dam, Gicheha Farm, Brookside Dairies on September 23.
One clump of papyrus produced Black Crake, Common Moorhen, two African Water Rails and ....a beautiful Baillon’s Crake, found by Peter Wairasho and Kevin Gichuki. It was nine years almost to the day that I had first seen it at the same place.
On the main dam, now dredged to eliminate the water hyacinth, there were numbers of waterbirds, including seven Greater Flamingo (5 adults, 1 sub-adult and 1 immature), three pairs of Southern Pochard, a pair of Blacksmith Plovers with four tiny chicks, a Black-tailed Godwit and a Common Greenshank, two Whiskered Terns and two hippos. In the reedy diversion channel there were all four egrets and three ibises, and various plovers, sandpipers and warblers.
Birding groups who would like to arrange a visit can contact Fred Mungai Muiruri at Brookside Dairies <fred.mungai@brookside.co.ke>
Wishing you good birding, Fleur