Amherst Island

In the short space of one morning we saw 66 bird species, including 3 for the life list!

Summer Tanager

This is definitely the sighting of the year!

Blackburnian Warbler

Dunlin

These were new for me.

Grey Cheeked Thrush

Another lifer!

Philadelphia Vireo

Upland Sandpiper

And yet another for the life list!

White Rumped Sandpiper

Wilson's Phalarope

Brant and Dunlin

Canada Geese

Yellow Warbler

Blacksmith Lapwing

October 21, 2006
Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya

I still have a few more birds from my Kenya trip to identify but haven't quite figured them out yet.

Cliff Chat

Lake Nakuru National Park
Kenya
21 October 2006

I found these, where else but on a cliff. The male is the one with the white wing bar. There were lots of these birds at the top of the cliff overlooking the park.

Ruppell's Long-tailed Starling

21 October, 2006
Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya

White-browed Sparrow Weaver

19 October, 2006
Kijabe, Kenya

Streaky Seedeater

October 16, 2006
Kijabe, Kenya

Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater

October 16, 2006
Kijabe, Kenya

Red-tailed Hawk at the Point

Found this Red-tailed Hawk at Lemoine Point near the boardwalk in the swamp. At first he was perched at the top of one of the dead trees but when he spotted me he moved to this higher perch in the big tree nearby. When he left the lower perch he swooped on a duck that was sitting in the swamp. The duck put up a racket but the hawk just flew off. The chickadees of course are always glad to pose for a picture.

Lemoine Point

Beautiful, warm, sunshine at the Point today. The rest of the weekend and next week calls for rain. Sun and moon shared the sky this morning and provided a backdrop for the gathering of flocks of birds preparing to head south for the winter.

The trees were full of flocks of birds. This one contained a gathering of House Finch, a few trees down was a large flock of Red-winged Blackbirds who were finished with their work in the swamp but not quite ready to leave town.

Lake Nakuru National Park

Warthogs

The Land Rover we travelled in.
Yes, it goes off road! In fact many of the roads we travelled on were technically off road by North American standards. With the right driver Wonderland has nothing on a trip in a Land Rover in Kenya.

Dik-Dik

Hadada Ibis

Flamingo

Giraffe

Rhino

More Rhino

Leopard

Rock Hyrax

Thompson's Gazelle

Lion

Waterbuck

Zebra

Buffalo

Around Kijabe, Kenya

Common Bulbul

View from the back porch in Kijabe.
The Rift Valley in the distance.

African Paradise Flycatcher

Sykes Monkey

Red-faced Crombec

Colobus Monkeys

Oxford Birds

Tufted Duck

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

Black Swan

Graylag Goose

Robin

Unidentified Flying Object

Coot

Black-headed Gull
in non-breeding plummage.