Thanks Chege for your most interesting photos. I’ve never seen or heard of a Wild Cat with such a long tail - simply amazing.
Your Somali Sparrow records are of particular interest, and I hope you managed to get some photos, if not could you please post a description with particular attention to the underparts.
Somali Sparrows in Kenya seem to come in a variety of colours, and hybrids with House Sparrow seem to becoming more common.
Nominate Somali Sparrow has pale yellow underparts, while the race fulgens shows much brighter yellow on the belly.
The plain buffy-white underparts of birds from Marsabit south to Isiolo and Garissa districts may represent an undescribed form ( as mentioned by Van Someren back in 1932). There is a good selection of them in the Field Museum, Chicago with a few also in the NMK collection.
Cohen & Mills (2010) “Mystery sparrows in Somaliland” in Birding Africa (June 2010) also showed an interesting selection of photos.
Meanwhile I seem to recall some time ago James Bradley showed us all a photograph I think by Simon Carter along the Galana River of all places which had pure white underparts.
A review of the Somali Sparrow in Kenya will I’m sure be a very worthwhile exercise for us all.
Best wishes
Don Turner.