Secretary Bird

> Hello,
>
> Just saw a secretary bird 2 days ago in Mikumi.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy
>
> Jan van den Hombergh wrote:
> > Neil, the morning thrush was nesting last weeks of August. Pics were from 5
> > September. Mud was taken I assumed from my flowerbeds, irregularly watered by
> > James.
> >
> > Jan
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> >
> > _____
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> > From: tanzaniabirds@yahoogroups.com [mailto:tanzaniabirds@yahoogroups.com]
> > On Behalf Of tanzaniabirdatlas
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:20 AM
> > To: tanzaniabirds@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: {Disarmed} [tanzaniabirds] Fw: Secretary Bird
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > thanks Graham, I must visit Dar more often to stir you out your slumber.
> >
> > only 3 records from Mikumi on our database so this is most welcome. would
> > love to know what "on & off" for 3 years really means in terms of dated
> > sightings.
> >
> > this is rather typical of a late dry season movement record even to Ruaha
> > (9)and Katavi (2).
> >
> > Neil
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Graham Mercer" <gmercer@istafrica. <mailto:gmercer%40istafrica.com>
> > com>
> > To: "tanzaniabirdatlas" <tzbirdatlas@ <mailto:tzbirdatlas%40yahoo.co.uk>
> > yahoo.co.uk>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 8:57 AM
> > Subject: Secretary Bird
> >
> > Neil (and Liz!)
> >
> > As someone who has never risen above the mega-fauna stage into the rarified
> > air of the Serious Birder you will appreciate the cautionary approach that I
> >
> > here adopt, but I saw a Secretary Bird close to the Millennium Dam in Mikumi
> >
> > last Friday.
> >
> > This will have you and your extensive clan yawning (or muttering with
> > irritation) but in well over 100 visits to Mikumi (some of 7 -10 days) over
> > 32 years and at all times of year, I cannot remember having seen a Secretary
> >
> > Bird there before (my old note-books are back in England). It was stamping
> > all over grasshoppers (or whatever). Karen Oakes of the Fox Camp says it has
> >
> > been around, off and on, for about 3 years.
> >
> > Saw a few (about 4) European bee-eaters also - they are exquisite.
> >
> > And just in case you thought I was making a late-in-life attempt to be
> > welcomed as a fellow-birder, a most unexpected mammal emerged from the red
> > oat grassland at 8.15 one night and trotted blithely past the dining tent -
> > Canis domesticus (or familiaris or lupus familiaris, take your pick). It was
> >
> > not seen again - the resident leopard had been padding around that same
> > track the previous night.
> >
> > Take care -
> >
> > Graham
> > Neil and Liz Baker, Tanzania Bird Atlas, P.O. Box 1605, Iringa, Tanzania.
> > Mobiles: 0776-360876 and 0776-360864.
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> Roy J. Hinde M.Sc.
> Marketing Director
> Wild Things Safaris Ltd.
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