From: Fleur Ng'weno <fleur@africaonline.co.ke>
Date: 2015-09-06 18:00
Subject: Re: Eurasian Bee-eaters
Re: Eurasian Bee-eaters
No, no, Rupert, you are taking part in citizen science!
BirdLife International’s “Spring Alive” survey would like your Eurasian Bee-eater record. Please send to
office@naturekenya.org copied to species@naturekenya.org
You can also send a text message to 0739 200217
tweet@ Nature_Kenya or post on our Facebook page @Nature-Kenya
“Spring Alive “would also like our records of first arrivals of:
White Stork
Common Cuckoo
Common (Eurasian) Swift
Barn Swallow
Wishing you good birding, Fleur
On 9/6/15 1:22 PM, "Rupert Watson rupertwatson48@gmail.com [kenyabirdsnet]" <kenyabirdsnet-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
… yesterday (5th) at the Hippo Pools in Nairobi NP giving me a splendid view of it eating prey on an acacia branch before flying off up the river. Long-toed plover on Hyena Dam, where fish eagle stirred everything up every time it flew over ...
… and today the first European Bee-eaters for me, overflying my Langata garden (help, am I getting like the retired colonels who used to write in to the English newspapers about the first cuckoos they had heard?).
On, on, Rupert Watson
Rupert Watson
P O Box 24251
Nairobi 00502
Kenya
Tel (254) 0722 237 138