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| Savannah (Vervet) Monkey |
After Minziro this would be my favourite birding location in Kagera. The college is a large campus with several hundred trainee teachers and staff living and working. Katoke is about an hour's easy drive down the bitumen to our south. VSO folk Rhona (English teacher trainer) and Sheila (librarian) always have a coffee or a beer and often lunch for visitors.
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| Pipit 1 |
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| Pipit 2 |
The campus is on a hill top with eucalyptus plantations and ornamental old gardens planted by the original German owners. The adjacent land is hilly wooded grassland with some denser scrub along the valley floor. It's quiet, peaceful, safe and full of birds. Its also in a different Tanzania Bird Atlas square to Bukoba so I get to contribute knowledge as well as have fun.
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| Black-lored Babbler |
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| Little Bee-eater |
In five surveys now I've seen 86 species in all. On Saturday Jenny and Rhona were demonstrating their teaching aids to aspiring english and mathematics teachers. I had a couple of hours to wander the hills. It was the middle of a warm day so I was not expecting much action but the sight of two Eurasian Hobbys in a tree just as I left the college was a great start. Over the next two hours birds appeared steadily and I ended up with 50 species.
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| Singing Cisticola (95% sure) |
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| Palm-nut Vulture |
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Highlights were Palm-nut Vulture, Tambourine Dove, Blue-breasted Bee-eater, European Bee-eater, Crested Barbet, Western Yellow Wagtail, Yellow-whiskered Greenbul, Brown-backed Scrub Robin, Moustached Grass Warbler, Singing Cisticola, Violet-backed Starling and Thick-billed Weaver.
Bukoba - 3 February 2011
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| Eurasian Hobby |
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