By Will Knocker:
Early morning at Mokoyeti picnic site…
The King is looking to have either baboons OT tourists for breakfast…
The Queen on the lookout…
Do not mess…..
Seen it all before…..
Welcome to Silole Sanctuary Nairobi National Park Blog
by Will Knocker
By Will Knocker:
Early morning at Mokoyeti picnic site…
The King is looking to have either baboons OT tourists for breakfast…
The Queen on the lookout…
Do not mess…..
Seen it all before…..
Images by Trish Heather-Hayes
“The grandfather of birding lists is the Nairobi one, with 605 sp. rdecorded from the city & environs. NNP is the nest with 529 sp.” So writes Stephen Spawls in his epic tome, KENYA, A Natural History…& the reason for this huge biodiversity is variety of habitat..
NNP (& Nairobi, including the Karura & Ngong Road Forests) boasts an incredible array of habitats, from the dry plains of the Athi Basin to the Langata Forest in the west..
The most important & fragile (dependent of the source of water) are the Park’s wetlands, such as Hyena Dam, pictured here: full of nutrients for this Yellow-Billed stork (the sewage from the blocks of flats upstream!)
A moorhen feeding it’s chick
Black-headed heron, otherwise known as a Snake bird owing to it’s propensity for gobbling snakes: this sp. is not always associated with water or wetlands..
Beautiful & elergant White-faced Whistling ducks
A Purple Gallinule or Swamphen (not such an elegant name): easy to spot at Hyena Dam…