Hi Fleur,
It really is a very early date for a Common Buzzard, but
Honey-Buzzards do sometimes oversummer, although I haven't heard of a
bird doing that in Nairobi before but a good forest like Karura would
be ideal as long as there are bees and wasps,
That's all I can suggest,
Cheers
Brian





















On 8/30/19, Fleur Ng'weno fleur@africaonline.co.ke [kenyabirdsnet]
<kenyabirdsnet-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> Greetings birders
>
> As Brian noted, I used to think of July and August as quiet birding months,
> but Nature Kenya's Wednesday Morning Birdwalks have been recording long bird
> lists in July and August this year.
>
> At Karura Forest this week (Aug 28) we had a variety of raptors – Ayres’s
> Hawk Eagle, Long-crested Eagle, Augur Buzzard, Black Kite. Then a buzzard
> flew rapidly across the playing field near the swamp. It seemed the right
> size, shape and coloring for a dark Common (Steppe) Buzzard. But August 28
> seems awfully early. Any advice?
>
> Wishing you good birding, Fleur