From: Fiona <darfreid@hotmail.com>
Date: 2010-09-30 14:50
Subject: Malepo Hills, Kajiado
Spent the weekend with the Succulenta Society on the Grant/Outram plot south of Kajiado on the Malepo Hills.It was very dry with long grass, hot in the day and cool in the evenings. There weren't many succulents ... so lots of time for Karen Plumbe, Heather Elkins and I to look for birds. Highlights were many small parties of Banded Parisoma. There were Tiny Cisticola, huge numbers of Emerald Spotted Wood dove (we had 13 in one tree beside a house with a water supply) many Red-fronted Barbets, a pair of Africa Hawk Eagles, a Pygmy Falcon, lots of swifts and martins, a Southern Grosbeak Canary and a Pink Breasted Lark.
The full list is below.
Ostrich
Crested Francolin
Pygmy Falcon
African Black-shouldered Kite
Eastern Chanting Goshawk
Tawny Eagle
African Hawk Eagle
Buff-crested Bustard
Red-eyed Dove
Ring-necked Dove
Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
African Orange-bellied Parrot
Klaas's Cuckoo
Pearl-spotted Owlet
Alpine Swift
Mottled Swift
Nyanza Swift
African Black Swift
Little Swift
Speckled Mousebird
Blue-naped Mousebird
Rufous-crowned Roller
Lilac-breasted Roller
Little Bee-eater
Eurasian Bee-eater
Hoopoe
Abyssinian Scimitarbill
African Grey Hornbill
Von der Decken's Hornbill
Red-fronted Tinkerbird
Red-fronted Barbet
Spot-flanked Barbet
Red-and-yellow Barbet
Nubian Woodpecker
Cardinal Woodpecker
Chin-spot Batis
White-crested Helmetshrike
Grey-headed Bushshrike
Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
Brown-crowned Tchagra
Slate-coloured Boubou
Brubru
Northern White-crowned Shrike
Black-headed Oriole
Common Drongo
Pied Crow
White-headed Saw-wing
Plain Martin
Rock Martin
Red-rumped Swallow
Pink-breasted Lark
Rattling Cisticola
Tiny Cisticola
Tawny-flanked Prinia
Yellow-breasted Apalis
Grey-backed Camaroptera
Common Bulbul
Yellow-bellied Eremomela
Red-faced Crombec
Banded Parisoma
Northern Pied Babbler
Wattled Starling
Hildebrandt's Starling
Red-winged Starling
African Bare-eyed Thrush
Spotted Palm Thrush
White-browed Scrub Robin
African Grey Flycatcher
Hunter's Sunbird
Beautiful Sunbird
Marico Sunbird
Grey-capped Social Weaver
Kenya Rufous Sparrow
Grey-headed Sparrow
Yellow-spotted Petronia
Common Waxbill
Black-faced Waxbill
Purple Grenadier
Reichenow's Seedeater
Southern Grosbeak Canary
Golden-breasted Bunting