From: Fleur Ng'weno <fleur@africaonline.co.ke>
Date: 2013-07-22 17:16
Subject: Nairobi and Lukenya records
Nairobi and Lukenya records Greetings birders

Highlights from Nature Kenya's weekly and monthly outings this month:

Ngong Road Forest at the Racecourse on July 10 (also saw fresh tree-poaching there):
African Fish Eagle – now regularly seen at Racecourse
Ayres’ Hawk-Eagle
Two Brown-chested Alethe

Paradise Lost, Kiambu on July 17 (with roaring waterfall):
Many White-backed Ducks
Little Grebe sitting on nest
1 Madagascar Pond Heron
Red-knobbed Coot with 4 cute Coot chicks
Great Sparrowhawk
Long-crested Eagle
Violet-backed Starlings
Pair of Grey-Olive Greenbul feeding begging fledgling

Lukenya Hill, by kind permission, on July 21:
About 40 vultures (mainly White-backed and Rüppell’s Vultures) circling above the road east of Lukenya Hill when we arrived at 10-something am.
Verreaux’s Eagle – great views, flying and perched
Pair of Augur Buzzards
Rock Martin, Cliff Chat – aptly-named birds

Wishing you good birding, Fleur