Here is the list from a brief afternoon visit to Sagala Lodge, Sunday 14th October, not quite migration but birding is starting to pick up there, should be excellent in Nov/Dec. The birding highlight for us was a Red-fronted Warbler, we'd only ever seen this at Baringo before (now we are familiar with them I bet I see them everywhere!). Other interest was a male Von der Deckans Hornbill eating a huge centipede and a Black-shouldered Kite harassing a Eastern Pale Goshawk. I think there was at least one other swift species present but I am no expert at swifts so it remains unknown. The resident Spotted-eagle Owl had been seen by others the same day.
I have attempted to attached two dodgy images (this usually goes wrong!) of a distant Black-cheeked Waxbill, the area of black on the chin looks rather small hence we chose Black-cheeked rather than female Black-faced but if anyone has a different opinion we'd love to know. The photos are of the same bird.
The lodge is under new management but I was assured the rates are the same. Unfortunately the roof of the platform viewing the waterhole has now collapsed, still there's a place to sit.
Happy birding,
1 Vulturine Guineafowl
2 Crested Francolin
3 Pygmy Falcon
4 African Black-shouldered Kite
5 Eastern Chanting Goshawk
6 Buff-crested Bustard
7 Green Sandpiper
8 Common Sandpiper
9 Red-eyed Dove
10 Laughing Dove
11 Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
12 African Orange-bellied Parrot
13 White-bellied Go-away-bird
14 African Palm Swift
15 Little Swift
16 White-rumped Swift
17 Little Bee-eater
18 Abyssinian Scimitarbill
19 African Grey Hornbill
20 Red-billed Hornbill
21 Von der Decken's Hornbill
22 Black-throated Barbet
23 D'Arnaud's Barbet
24 Nubian Woodpecker
25 African Grey Woodpecker
26 Pygmy Batis
27 Three-streaked Tchagra
28 Slate-coloured Boubou
29 Brubru
30 Northern White-crowned Shrike
31 Black-headed Oriole
32 Common Drongo
33 African Paradise Flycatcher
34 Lesser Striped Swallow
35 Pink-breasted Lark
36 Yellow-breasted Apalis
37 Red-fronted Warbler
38 Common Bulbul
39 Scaly Chatterer
40 Golden-breasted Starling
41 African Bare-eyed Thrush
42 Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
43 Tsavo Sunbird
44 White-browed Sparrow Weaver
45 White-headed Buffalo Weaver
46 Village Weaver
47 Chestnut Weaver
48 Red-billed Quelea
49 Black-cheeked Waxbill
50 Green-winged Pytilia
51 Eastern Paradise Whydah