[Offer to Sell] 15 Days/14 Nights Kenya Birding Safaris |
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| SVABW 008: 15 Days/14 Nights Birding Wilderness DAY 01: You will board your night flight bound for Nairobi, Kenya from Europe DAY 02: NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK A smooth flight will see you arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport JKIA Nairobi at about 8.30 am and once through the formalities of immigration we collected our luggage and met our guides and good friends Joseph & Nico. Once outside the airport we introduce to you our drivers who will skilfully load your luggage's into the vehicles. With most of us still trying to get our binoculars out of our hand luggage a Black-chested Snake Eagle flew over and several Red-winged Starlings and Little Swifts were spotted. No time to mess around we were straight into our great African safari. A short drive took us to the entrance to Nairobi National Park and the birding began. We will soon introduce ourselves to some of the commoner species such as Rufous Sparrow and Yellow-rumped Seedeater and as some of the group spotted their first Masai Giraffe from the washrooms the rest of us watched close Lesser Striped and Red-rumped Swallows. We will all took our positions in our respective vehicles, the roofs will be raised and into the park we head. Several Masai Giraffe towered over the open bush and our first Coke's Hartebeest and Masai Ostrich will be seen. Huge Banded Martins put in an appearance and groups of Long-tailed Fiscals started to be seen everywhere. An enormous Lappet-faced Vulture set the raptor list rolling and then a pair of White-bellied Bustards. Continue on we soon notch up a few more Cisticolas with good views of Stout and Croaking. A group of Grant's Gazelles paid no attention to us while nearby we all got good views of a pair of Short-tailed Larks. Our first Yellow-necked Spurfowl were seen right beside the track and groups of Northern Pied Babblers were noted. We worked our way along the dusty tracks towards our lunch time picnic spot. White-backed Vultures were easily seen as was Red-billed Quelea and then a Long-billed Pipit and a beautiful pair of Hildebrandt's Starlings showing their stunning bright red eyes. Augar Buzzards soon to be common were found, Cape Buffalo were plentiful and an Olive Baboon was watched sat in a treetop. Along the roadside we found two Zebra Waxbills a Bronze Sunbird and reasonable views of a Quail-finch, while at our Picnic stop we were treated to a great meal and several new birds which could be watched in between bites. A male Cardinal Quelea posed for us as did a White-browed Scrub Robin and another Yellow-necked Spurfowl. With our lunch over we were on our way again. A nearby pool found us Black Crakes, a Malachite Kingfisher and a breeding male Holub's Golden Weaver. In the scrub we watched a superb African Moustached Warbler amongst a group of Bronze Mannikins that also contained Common and Crimson-rumped Waxbills. On a distant tree a huge Grosbeak Weaver was found and as we moved on a nice adult Bateleur put in a brief appearance. Beside a reed bed we saw very close Grey-crowned Cranes and a Little Rush Warbler was enticed to show itself. Here on a small lake an African Darter was seen roosting beside Black-crowned Night Herons and nearby Black-headed Herons and a Hadada were spotted. Several Masai Giraffe gave us excellent close views and while watching these a few Red-billed Oxpeckers were found feeding on their backs. Continuing on through the park we arrived at a grassy mound where a pride of eight Lions sat just twenty feet in front of us. After admiring these 'pussy cats' we proceed to find more Cape Buffalo, smaller Thompson's Gazelle, and some huge Eland. Amongst the birds that became to numerous to remember we found a Shelley's Francolin and then a very good bird for the park, which was a Red-and-yellow Barbet, plus we had excellent views of a perched Eastern Pale-chanting Goshawk. On a tiny pond we found a Madagascar Squacco Heron as well as a gorgeous Three-banded Plover, Red-billed Teal and some Fischer's Sparrow-larks. On another lake there were hundreds of Marab |
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