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Kenya Birding | Bird Watching in Magical Kenya

In a recent tour to Saiwa Swamp National Park I managed to spot over 70 species of bird in a period of 48 hours.I stayed at the a self-catering Tree Top House which was quite unique. Just after I checked in, from the balcony, I had brilliant view of a female Sitatunga with a young baby!!that was the better way to begin birding and in a few minute of observation I had recorded Little Rush Warbler, Grey-crowned Crane and Chubb's Cisticola.That evenning I did a long walk to Flat form (Tower) 4 where I was lucky enough to see the male Sitatunga and Yellowe-billed Duck.The next day I handle Tower 5 route, Acacia Nature trails and Bushback observatory tower.It will be unfair not to mentioned the great view I had of a group of endagred De Brazza monkey and the curious looking Colobus Monkey.It is indeed a great place to spend a weekend and as for birders and Twitchers, it is a must visit place.

Below is the list of birds I observed;

Bird List for Saiwa Swamp National Park seen on 28^th to 30^th October 2011

1. Long-tailed Cormorant
2. Little Bittern
3. Goliath Heron
4. Grey Heron
5. Yellow-billed Stock
6. Hamerkop
7. Sacred Ibis
8. Hadada Ibis
9. Yellow-billed Duck
10. Great Sparrow hawk
11. African Hawk-Eagle
12. Long-crested Eagle
13. Grey-crowned Crane
14. Spur-winged Lapwing
15. Common Sandpiper
16. Blue-spotted wood-Dove
17. Tambourine Dove
18. Ring-necked Dove
19. Ross’s Turaco
20. Black-and-white Cuckoo
21. African Cuckoo
22. Klaa’s  Cuckoo
23. African Emerald Cuckoo
24. Blue-headed Coucal
25. Woodland Kingfisher
26. Malachite Kingfisher
27. Lilac-breasted Roller
28. Crowned Hornbill
29. Yellow-rumped  Tinkerbird
30. Lesser Honeyguide
31. Cape Wagtail
32. African pied Wagtail
33. Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
34. Cabanis’s Greenbul
35. White-headed Saw-wing
36. White-starred Robin
37. Grey-winged Robin-Chat
38. African Thrush
39. Little Rush Warbler
40. Cinnamon Bracken Warbler
41. Chubb’s Cisticola
42. Tawny-flanked Prinia
43. Grey-capped Warbler
44. Grey-backed Camaroptera
45. Black-collared Apalis
46. African Dusky Flycatcher
47. Swamp Flycatcher
48. Black-throated Wattle-eye
49. African Paradise-flycatcher
50. Yellow White-eye
51. Green-headed Sunbird
52. Northern Double-collared Sunbird
53. Green-throated Sunbird
54. Ludhers’s Bush-shrike
55. Pringle’s Puffback
56. Marsh Tchagra
57. Forked-tailed Drongo
58. Eurasian Golden Oriole
59. Lesser Blue-eared Starling
60. Grey-headed Sparrow
61. Grosbeak Weaver
62. Northern Brown-throated Weaver
63. Fan-tailed Widowbird
64. Yellow-mantled Widowbird
65. Black-bellied Firefinch
66. African Firefinch
67. Common Waxbill
68. Black-crowned Waxbill
69. Pin-tailed Whydah
70. Thick-billed Seedeater

Lake Bogoria is hosting the largest Flamingos population since February this Year.The migrants waders have slowly arrived