Dear all,
I recently spent 4 days at our farm on the lower slopes of the Cherangany's near Kachibora. The weather was wet, wet, wet, raining most every day. Maize was high, but not yet mature. The birds were very active and I happily recorded some new species on this trip.
the list of birds is as follows:
Grey crowned
crane
Augur
Buzzard
Long-crested
Eagle
Wahlberg’s
Eagle
Mountain
Buzzard
Red-eyed
Dove
Speckled
pigeon
Brown parrot
Levaillant’s
cuckoo (light morph)
Speckled
mousebird
Striped
kingfisher
Green
wood-hoopoe
Nubian
woodpecker
Pied wagtail
Plain-backed
pipit
Black
saw-wing
Mosque
swallow
Wire-tailed
swallow
Bulbul
Yellow-throated
leaf-love
Black
cuckooshrike
Common
drongo
Grey-backed
fiscal
Chin-spot
batis –pair nest building
Pale
flycatcher
White-eyed
slaty flycatcher
African blue
flycatcher
Ruppell’s
robin-chat
Singing
cisticola
Grey-backed
camaroptera
Buff-bellied
warbler
Yellow
white-eye
Marico
sunbird
Northern
double-collared sunbird
Grey-headed
sparrow
House
sparrow
Pin-tailed
whydah – males in both breeding and non-breeding plumages
Fan-tailed
widowbird
Yellow
bishop
Baglafecht
weaver
Red-cheeked
cordon bleu
Common
waxbill
African
citril
Cheers, Darcy