Dear all,

My wife, Johan and I decided to visit Tsavo West on the Madaraka week-end.

The park was full of birds (displaying and breeding). I was a really beautifull week-end.

Please find hereunder the list of birds seen :

Raptors :

Grasshopper Buzzard
Augur Buzzard
Verreaux Eagle
Eurasian Marsh-Harrier
Black-winged Kite
Ayres Hawk-Eagle (adult pale form)
Brown Snake Eagle
Gabar Goshawk
Amur Falcon
Martial Eagle
Walhberg's Eagle
Eastern chanting Goshawk
Pallid Harrier
Lapped-faced Vulture
White-backed Vulture
Steppe Eagle
Pygmy Falcon
Tawny Eagle (pale adult)
Bateleur
Fisheagle

Cuckoos :

Dideric Cuckoo (everywhere)
Klaas's Cuckoo
Red-chested Cuckoo
Jacobin Cuckoo

Owl:

Verreau's Eagle-Owl (3)

Others:

White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
Speckled Pigeon
Hildebrandt Starling
Von Der Decken's Hornbill
Marabou Stork
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
Blue-naped Mousebird
Black-headed Lapwing
Bare-eyed Thrush
Yellow-breasted Apalis
African Hoopoe
Red-tailed Shrike
Red-backed Shrike
Ring-necked Dove
African Grey Hornbill
Pectoral-patch Cisticola
Eurasian Roller
Somali long-billed Crombec
Willow Warbler
White-bellied Go Away Bird
Spotted Flycatcher
White-crowned Shrike
Superb Starling
Helmeted Guineafowl
Red-billed Hornbill
Chestnut Weaver
White-billed Buffalo-Weaver
Common Drongo
Black-bellied Sunbird
Laughing Dove
Banded Martin
D'arnaud's Barbet
Yellow-spotted Petronia
Wattled Starling
White-browed Coucal
Long-tailed Fiscal
Orange-bellied Parrot
Pin-tailed Whydah
Common Rock Thrush
Chesnut Sparrow
Cut-throat Finch
Golden Pipit
Black-headed Weaver
Jackson's Hornbill
Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
Namaqua Dove
Common Fiscal
Golden-breasted Starling
Little Egret
Egyptian Goose
Red-rumped Swallow
Black-headed Heron
Blacksmith Lapwing
Red-billed Quelea
African Paradise Flycatcher
Tropical Boubou
Slate-coloured Boubou
Arlequin Quail
Paradise Whydah
Straw-tailed Whydah
Winding Cisticola
Common Bulbul
Sulfur-breasted Bushshrike
Variable Sunbird
Lilac-breasted Roller
Little Swift
Lesser-striped Swallow
Black-headed Oriole
Vulturine Guineafowl
Black Stork
Red-eyed Dove
African Moustached Warbler
Crested Francolin
Yellow-necked Spurfowl (one perched high (4 meters)in a tree)
Fischer's Starling
Yellow Bishop
White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
Greater Blue-eared Starling
White-browed Scrub Robin
Nightingale
Dusky Nightjar
African Green Pigeon
Slender-billed Starling
Green-winged Pytilia
Spotted Morning Thrush
Little Bee-eater
Grey Heron
Hamerkop
Grey-headed Kingfisher
Woodland Kingfisher
Green Woodhoopoe
Malachite Kingfisher
African Grey Flycatcher
Nubian Woodpecker
Long-tailed Cormorant
Pied Kingfisher
Giant Kingfisher
Rosy-patched Bushshrike
Water Thick-knee (a pair with a chick)
Isabelline Wheatear
Marsh Warbler
Friedmann's Lark
River Warbler
Grey-backed Camaroptera
Brown-hooded Tchagra
Grey-crowned Crane
Common Sandpiper
Common Greenshank

We will be back in the Tsavo West NP from the 19th till the 23rd December. We hope to meet Colin.

Best to all

Patrick