From: TButynski@aol.com
Date: 2015-09-08 05:50
Subject: Re: [KENYABIRDSNET] Re: Eurasian Bee-eaters

 
Fist wheatear of the passage seen here on Lolldaiga Hills Ranch (near Nanyuki) yesterday (7 Sept.)...an Isabelline Wheatear.  Seems early!
 
No EuroBees as yet!
 
Regards,
 
Tom
 
In a message dated 9/6/2015 6:26:19 P.M. E. Africa Standard Time, kenyabirdsnet-noreply@yahoogroups.com writes:
 

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


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