Report from Nairobi: Bird Watching in Nairobi

Bird Watching in Nairobi

I am now in Nairobi, and just start to take bird photo using a Canon Powershot SX40 with a 35X zoom lenses. I use the guidebook “Birds of Kenya” by Amedeo Buonajuti to help me with the identification of the birds. If location is not mention in the comments, the photo is taken in a house on Runda Drive, Nairobi.

African Mourning Dove

African Pied Wagtail - Sun bathing with its belly feathers all puffing out.

Pin-tailed whydah in Kiambethu Tea Farm in Limuru.

Baglafetch Weaver photo on United Nation Avenue– In the guidebook, the bird is bright yellow under, but this photo shows bright dark orange. Have I made a mistake in the identification?

Bronze Sunbird – It made short distance dash to catch insect in the air.

Bronze Sunbird feeding

Variable Sunbird

Variable Sunbird in flight. I don't know the identity of the bird below.

Cape Robin Chat

Common Bulbul - It has a simple identification of a yellow feathers on its vent.

Hadada Ibis

House Sparrow

Olive Thrush – A very beautiful bird, and will act like a model to be photo

Pied crow

Silvered-cheeked Hornbill – It showed mottled silvery tipped on the facial feather. The feather under the belly is completely black with a white band toward its tail, but under a special lighting condition or the stretching of the feather, the black feather under the belly will have a scale like appearance with the brightness and colour of an oyster shell