Friday 29 April 2016

Early morning hotel birding (Day 5 Gambia)

Long-tailed Glossy Starling
Long-tailed Glossy Starling
Pied Crow
Three Yellow-crowned Gonolek 
Black Kite
Green Vervet Monkey
Senegal Coucal
Senegal Coucal
Green Vervet Monkeys outside our room
Green Vervet Monkey
Yellow-billed Shrike

I took advantage of an hour before breakfast to try and catch a few more species around the hotel before breakfast. From my research, Starlings were going to be one of the easiest species to see however during the whole trip I found them very difficult. The main reason for this is the habitat around the hotels has sadly gone which moved some of the species on. Thankfully I caught up with a couple of Long-tailed Glossy Starlings and managed to get a few photos. Monkeys around hotel were also sparse until this day when the local tribe arrived for the day which delighted onlookers around the pool.


An hours walk recording Yellow-billed Shrikes, Papiacs, Red Hornbills, Whimbrel, Palm Swifts, Senegal Cougal, Cattle Egrets, Pied Crow (strangely difficult to photograph as always seem to be in flight), Yellow-crowned Gondeleks was just brilliant.

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