Hello Birders

Below are the most interesting birds seen  a brief afternoon visit to Nairobi NP on Sunday November 17th. We did not arrive until about 12.30 pm and left at 6 pm. Generally it was poor for passerine migrants.  Although we had a sprosser on the ILRI compound prior to leaving ( our first for many years). The rains had not yet arrived and it  was generally still unusually dry for mid-November.

Common Squacco Heron 1  Hyaena dam

Spurwing goose 1 Athi basin  dam

Pallid Harrier    1 Male near Athi Dam

Steppe buzzard  1 Langata forest

Steppe Eagle -3 Athi basin

Shelley’s francolin-3

Painted snipe -1 female on the edge of Nagolomon at dusk.  Our first in the park (perhaps there is a small population at the moment?).

Yellow wagtail - 1 flava type near Hyaena dam

Blackcap -2 males and 2 females-drinking at KWS mess.

Mammals included:

Two mating lions near Athi Dam and a rather scared lone young male below leopard cliffs.

Five white Rhinos (but no black).

Two mountain reedbuck at the usual site on the edge of the Sosian gorge

One steinkbok on the outer circuit.

Good birding to all.

Richard and Anne

Dr. Richard Bishop

Principal Molecular Biologist

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

P.O. Box 30709

GPO 00100

Nairobi

Kenya

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