Nairobi Arboretum

Craning my neck looking at a Hartlaub's Turaco in the canopy 

 A juvenile Little Sparrowhawk

 The Hartlaub's again

 A female Baglafecht Weaver

 Red-billed Firefinch

Yellow-throated Longclaw

More from Kenya

 Black-shouldered Kite

 White-browed Coucal

 Some four legged friends

 Three-banded Plover 

 Long-tailed Fiscal

 Rufous-naped Lark

 Yellow-billed Oxpecker

Giraffes standing to attention

Kenyeah!

 Some great habitat

 A Pink-backed Pelecan in a tree

 Pink-backed Pelecan

 Black Crake

 An African Harrier Hawk being mobbed by a Cape Rook

Red-chested Cuckoo

The Rift Valley near Nairobi

 Somali Golden-breasted Bunting

 Common Bulbul

 A male Baglafecht Weaver

 African Harrier Hawk 

A view of The Rift

More tomorrow. Late for my appointment!

A great grey day in Hartlepool, Cleveland

 A dozy Feral Pigeon

 Beach shot near Hartlepool

 Looking the other way

A Mediterranean Gull

Sado Estuary revisited

 Checking shots of Dunlin

 Hanging out with Extremadura Tourism's very lovely Vanesa Palacios

 Watching an Osprey

 Me and Gorka Gorospe who represents the Navara region of Spain

 Birding by boat

 Giving my talk

Talking about Ring Ouzels - again!

Images curtesy of Gorka Gorospe

Short-eared surprise!

Look what popped out of our grassland at The Scrubs this morning - a beautiful Short-eared Owl!

This bird was almost trodden upon at 0740. It flapped up and glided over the hawthorns to pitch down in the vegetation. It was flushed again 30 minutes later and put on a brilliant flypast display before seemingly heading west. It was later flushed again at the western end of the grassland at 0900 making it our longest staying SEO.

We get them appearing most years although normally as flyovers. This bird was our second for the year. The first flew in from the east in April and proceeded to quarter our small grassland for 15 minutes as if it were in deepest Essex.

Brilliant!!