Dear all,

Johan, my wife an me spent the last week of 2009 in Watamu.

Please find hereunder the list of the birds seen in Arabuko-Sokoke forest, Mika Creek, Sabaki estuary and lake Jilore.

Mida Creek

Ringed Plover
Mongolian Sandplover
Great Sandplover
White-fronted Plover
Sanderling
Crab Plover
Eurasian Curlew
Curlew Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Terek Sandpiper
Common Greenshank
Lesser Crested-Tern
Great Flamingo
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Gull-Billed Tern
Spotted Flycatcher
Yellow-fronted Canary
Black-headed Heron
Grey Heron
Grey Plover
Little Stint
African Fish-Eagle
Osprey
Amur Falcon
Lilac-breasted Roller
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove

Sabaki estuary

Caspian Tern
Sooty Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Mongolian Sandplover
Greater Sandplover
Curlew Sandpiper
Ringed Plover
Great Flamingo
Common Sandpiper
Broad-billed Sandpiper
Terek Sandpiper
White-throated Bee-eater
Great Egret
Grey Plover
Scaly Babbler
Speckled Mousebird
Red-fronted Tinkerbird
African Spoonbill
Common Bulbul
Great Crested-Tern
Red-cheecked Cordonbleu
Eurasian Marsh-Harrier
Yellow-billed Kite
Yellow Wagtail

Arabuko sokoke forest

Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike
Common Scimitar-bill
Yellow-bellied Greenbul
Common Drongo
Little Yellow Flycatcher
East Coast Batis
Forest Batis
Ashy Flycatcher
Blue-mantled Paradise-Flycatcher
Eastern Bearded Scrub-Robin
Eastern Nicator
Red-tailed Ant-Thrush
Tropical Boubou
Black-headed Oriole
Tambourine Dove
Red-eyed Dove
Black-backed Puffback
Four-coloured Bushshrike
Black-headed Apalis
Common Bulbul
Sokoke Pipit
Plain-backed Sunbird
Amani Sunbird
Collared Sunbird
Black-bellied Starling
Narina Trogon
Mombasa Woodpecker
Osprey
Trumpeter Hornbill
Fisher's Turaco
Lizard Buzzard
Green Barbet
Scaly-throated Honeyguide
Palm Swift
Northern Brownbul
Black-crowned Tchagra
Grey-backed Camaroptera
Dark-backed Weaver
Peter's Twinspot
Klaas's Cuckoo
Emerald spotted Wood-Dove
Crowned Hornbill
Terrestrial Brownbul

Lake Jilore

White-winged Tern
Open-billed Stork
Hadada Ibis
Black-headed Heron
Cattle Egret
Squacco Heron
Pink-backed Pelican
White-faced Whistling Duck
Southern Pochard
Three-banded Plover
Ringed Plover
Wood Sandpiper
Crested Francolin
Eurasian Marsh-Harrier
Wahlberg's Eagle
Red-eyed Dove
Pied Kingfisher
Carmine Bee-eater
Yellow Wagtail
Barn Swallow
Long-tailed Fiscal
Red-backed Shrike
Sedge Warbler
Winding Cisticola
Fan-tailed Widowbird
Zanzibar Red Bishop
Golden-Palm Weaver
Village Weaver
Red-billed Firefinch

We want to wish you all the best for this new year.

Best to all,

Patrick