From: Fleur Ng'weno <fleur@africaonline.co.ke>
Date: 2012-04-09 15:36
Subject: Nairobi migrants, vultures and ducklings
Nairobi migrants, vultures and ducklings
Oops, add Tree Pipit
Migrants have been moving through Nairobi during this long weekend.
In Nairobi National Park on April 7, Sheena Orr, Darcy Ogada, Jennifer Oduori and I recorded 18 species of palaearctic migrants: Montagu's Harrier, Little Stint, Common Sandpiper, Eurasian Nightjar, Eurasian Bee-eater, Barn Swallow, Yellow Wagtail, Common Nightingale, Thrush Nightingale (Sprosser – the best view ever!), Whinchat, Northern Wheatear, Spotted Flycatcher, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Willow Warbler, Red-backed Shrike, Red-tailed Shrike and Lesser Grey Shrike – the three shrikes in brilliant plumage – and Tree Pipit.
The mammal tally included 7 bushbuck, 5 suni, and a dik-dik. I believe this is the first dik-dik I have ever seen in Nairobi National Park!
On April 8 in Karura Forest, the highlight was a resident pair of White-backed Ducks with two half-grown ducklings.
And on April 9 in Nairobi National Park with the family, over 40 vultures – mostly White-backed, some Rüppell’s – descending to a lion kill.
Wishing you good birding, Fleur