Hello birders

A brief addition to Brian Finch and Nigel Hunter’s park  visit on Sunday

We were in the park from 12pm onwards until 7 pm with a friend from Germany

The time was mostly spent in the Mbagathi  Athi basin area.

Highlights included

A pair of Temmink’s coursers with two very small chicks on the top road in  the Athi basin

Two yellow throated sandgrouse at the basin Dam (the first that we have seen in the park for a couple of years)

Four Violet wood hoopoes on the Acacia scrub circuit

Squacco heron at Nagolomon Dam

Palearctics included

Two willow warblers

Two adult and two juvenile isabelline shrikes

One isabelline wheater

One male  pied wheater

One rather scruffy looking Eurasian roller

Mammals in addition to the large numbers of wildebeest and thompson’s gazelle included a Lavia frons at the Hippo pools and a silver-backed jackal on the outer circuit

Best to all

Richard

Dr. Richard Bishop

Principal Molecular Biologist

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

P.O. Box 30709

GPO 00100

Nairobi

Kenya

Tel: +254(0)20 4223000 (switchboard) 4223359 (office)

e mail: r.bishop@cgiar.org

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