Fish
234. Flowery Flounder
235. Palenose Parrotfish
236. Blacktip Reef Shark
237. Needlefish
238. Twolined Monocle Bream
239. Saddled Butterflyfish
240. Doublesaddle Butterflyfish
241. Humbug
242. Threespot Wrasse
243. Lagoon Triggerfish
Today was travelling day and with 4,5 hours in the car and 1,5 hour in the garden here in Baringo I could add quite some species:
125. Cattle egret
126. Yellow- billed stork
127. African woolly-necked stork
128. Marabou
129. Great white pelican
130. Grey crowned crane
131. White-bellied go-away-bird
132. Laughing dove
133. Ring-necked dove
134. Emerald-spotted wood dove
135. White-billed buffalo weaver
136. White-headed buffalo weaver
137. Red-headed weaver
138. Mottled swift
139. Lesser flamingo
140. Long-crested eagle
141. Fischer’s lovebird
142. African hoopoe
143. Red-billed hornbill
144. Grey woodpecker
145. African stonechat
146. Northern anteater chat
147. Common fiscal
148. Long-tailed fiscal
149. Fork-tailed drongo
150. Cape rook
151. Greater blue-eared starling
152. Ruppel’s long-tailed starling
153. Superb starling
154. Wattled starling
155. Cardinal woodpecker
156. D’arnaud’s barbet
157. Red- and yellow barbet
158. Spotted palm thrush
159. Red-faced crombec
160. Red-billed woodhoopoe
161. Willow warbler
162. Jackson’s hornbill
163. Blue-naped mousebird
164. Woodland kingfisher
165. Lilac-breasted roller
166. Northern white-crowned shrike
167. Parrot-billed sparrow
168. Shikra
169. Bearded woodpecker
170. Black-headed oriole
171. Rufous chatterer
172. Lesser honeyguide
Mammals
11. Grant’s zebra
12. Common eland
13. Olive baboon
14. Thomson’s gazelle
15. Common warthog
16. Impala
17. Unstriped ground-squirrel
Herps
6. Kenyan rock agama
7. Blue-headed tree agama
Had a very good morning trip to Abberton Reservoir today, where I managed to find six new birds and one new mammal for the year list:
106. Little owl Athene noctua
107. Common tern Sterna hirundo
108. Little ringed plover Charadrius dubius
109. Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
110. Corn bunting Emberiza calandra
111. Yellow wagtail Motacilla flava
9. Common shrew Sorex araneus
Despite being significantly nearer to me than it is to you, I am yet to get up to see that Dowitcherwhich reminds me, I have about a month or so of sightings to post into this thread when I can be bothered!
It was remarkably easy: I parked my car, crossed the road and it was probing away in a puddle just a few metres away. That said, it's in the middle of nowhere and I've no idea how you would get there without a car.
154. Yellow (Channel) Wagtail
155. Spoonbill
A nice morning in Shropshire gave me my first life tick of the year
156.Iberian Chiffchaff
Wunghnu.
I passed the 100 bird species for Kenya in 2016 yesterday and this morning I saw my 800th bird species.
173. Purple roller
174. Orange-bellied parrot
175. Verreaux’s eagle owl
176. White-browed robin chat
177. Lesser masked weaver
178. Wire-tailed swallow
179. Crested francolin
180. Grey hornbill
181. Icterine warbler
182. Red-breasted cuckoo
183. White-crested helmetshrike
184. Hamerkop
185. Greater honeyguide
Mammals:
18. Yellow-winged bat
19. White-tailed mongoose