From: george kamau <jorgekam2004@yahoo.com>
Date: 2017-02-24 16:41
Subject: Taita and Tsavo Park.
Hello Birders
They always say that birding is the best addiction without a vice and therefore the addiction of ticking a new species on your list is the excitement that make you want to do more and more.
On 15th this Month at Taita hill wildlife Sanctuary which is a privately own, but in the same Ecosystem with Tsavo West, Tsavo East and Mkomazi G Reserve in Tanzania. Migration of Birds both Palearctic and Intra-African can give suprises of new birds. To me Counting birds like Northern Carmine Bee-eaters that kept following anything from Babbons, Secretary bird, Abdim's storks to Elephants as long as they are foraging on the ground....was like a thriller. The good combination of its colours and the dependency on others kept my binoculars glued to them longer. The Blue-cheeked bee eaters waited on elevated point to catch any flying bees.
Off-course they did appear on both places. Other Bee-eaters at Tsavo East Aruba lodge areas were White-throated and Little bee-Eaters . Then at an open area near the wind mill the flocks of Chestnut-backed and chesnut-headed Sparrow Lark were on the ground busy filling their crops.
Other birds that were exitings were like the Black headed lapwing, Abdim's Stock. Eastern olivaceous warbler, Rufous bush chat, Eurasian Roller, Steppe Eagle, Lesser and Greater Kestrel at Salt lick, Western Marsh Harrier, other Harriers that i couldn't be able to differenciate like Pallid and Montagu's either or one of them was there too, Lanner Falcon and many other birds
Wishing you a good luck birding
George.
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