From: Fleur Ng'weno <fleur@africaonline.co.ke>
Date: 2011-06-16 14:26
Subject: Young birds in Nairobi
Young birds in Nairobi
It’s baby’s day out in Nairobi!
In Nairobi National Park on 13 June, with Mike Davidson and Heather Elkins: Two Grey Crowned Cranes shepherding 3 yellow chicks in the grassland below Impala Lookout, and a pair of White-backed Vulture with a young in the nest on the forest edge.
(Also 20 nearly grown young ostriches drinking from a roadside pool, a Great Spotted Cuckoo at the Athi Basin dam and a flock of 200-300 Yellow-crowned Bishops in the small wetlands at no.9.)
On Nature Kenya’s Wednesday Morning Birdwalk at Jay Hewett’s in Langata on 15 June, Egyptian Geese with a gosling, immature Red-chested and Klaas’s Cuckoos, and young Grosbeak, Baglafecht and Holub’s Golden Weavers begging.
And back in my garden, Rüppell’s Robin Chat feeding a fledgling.
Good birding, Fleur