Wow Mustafa,
That is very impressive, I honestly did not know that there were so
many interesting areas on the south coast that I was never aware of.
Very interesting and thanks for sharing,
Brian

On 2/19/19, Mustafa Adamjee madamjee.ma@gmail.com [kenyabirdsnet]
<kenyabirdsnet-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> Greetings everyone
>
> South coast waterfowl counts were conducted on Sunday 17th Feb. We started
> our day at a swamp behind kenya bixa in Tiwi, we had a great number of
> pygmy geese and little grebe, a new record for me in South coast was
> white-backed duck and garganey(pictures attached), also seen were
> intermediate egret, grey, purple and great white egret. Interesting land
> birds were northern wheatear and black-collared barbet. We then went to
> Mkurumudzi river estuary, which is like a second mida creek, lots of crab
> plovers(picture attached), many small waders, lots of reed cormorants, a
> big roost of terns and gulls and a good number of Palm-nut vultures(8)! The
> days only osprey was seen at KISCOL DAM with 2 African darters and a couple
> of reed cormorants and cattle egret. We finished the day with the KISCOL
> swamp, seeing lots of openbill storks, again many pygmy geese, some African
> jacana, two purple heron and the days only black crake and pied kingfisher.
> Reed cormorants, black headed herons and cattle egrets were also seen
> roosting in the reeds. Also attached is a spreadsheet picture of the
> counts. In the end we managed to log around 120 species in 2 full protocols
> and 3 adhocs.
>
>
> Mustafa Adamjee
>