12 DAYS BIRDING ITINERARY

Get picked up, drive out and embark on birding in Manguo ponds
for water birds, Maccoa duck, Fulvous and White faced whistling
ducks, once this is done we will stop by the Rift valley viewpoint
for hunter’s cisticola and Golden winged sunbird and more. We
then will head to Crater lake resort where we will check in and
start birding in the compound and later the sanctuary for
Hildebrandt’s starling, Brown-crowned tchagra, Common
scimitarbill, Bearded,Nubian,Cardinal and Grey woodpeckers
before we retire to the camp for dinner and night.

Early breakfast and depart for Masai mara, where we hope to be for
lunch, we will check in at Fig tree camp situated at the banks of
Talek river. Late afternoon will see us drive along the river for White
headed barbet, Red fronted barbet, Spot-flanked barbet, Red
fronted tinkerbird, Klaas’s cuckoo, Bare-faced go away bird, White
browed coucal, Pallid honey guide, Hilderbrandt’s starling, Meyer’s
parrot, Croaking cisticola, Rufous naped lark and possible Schalow’s
turaco. Hippos, Crocs will be in the river, Lions Elephants etc may
also be seen. Back to hotel for the night

Early breakfast and take lunch boxes and embark on a drive in the park for the better part of the day.
We will be looking out for Cheetah and Leopard in addition to the birding which
will elicit Black bellied bustard, White bellied bustard, Common ostrich, Kori
bustard, Yellow throated sandgrouse, Saddle billed stork, Lappet-faced vulture,
White backed vulture, White headed vulture, Ruppel’s griffon. We will then
drive back to hotel for rest

Early breakfast and depart to Lake Victoria hoping to get there for lunch and
check in at Imperial hotel. You will have a rest till late afternoon when we drive
to the lakeshores for birding in the papyrus habitat, which will elicit Papyrus
canary, Black headed gonolek, Blue headed coucal, Black billed and Double
toothed barbet, Blue-spotted wood dove, Yellow throated greenbul, Swamp
flycatcher etc. We will then go back to hotel for the night

Early morning drive to hippo point for a boat trip along the shore for water
thicknee, Carruther’s cisticola, Northern red-throated weaver, Slender billed weaver, White –winged
warbler, Greater swamp warbler, Lesser swamp warbler, Papyrus gonolek and more. We will ride back
and take the car to hotel for breakfast and prepare to leave for Kakamega forest where we hope to
get for lunch and check in. Rest and later start walks in the trails nearby for White spotted fluff tail,
White tailed ant thrush, White crowned robin chat, Grey-winged robin chat, Great blue turaco, Thick
billed honey guide, Grey throated barbet, Yellow spotted barbet, Black billed weaver etc. We will be
back to hotel for the night

Early breakfast a drive to spot in the forest road for Black billed
turaco, Bar-tailed trogon, Jameson’s wattle eye, Chestnut wattle
eye, White headed woodhopoes, Black faced rufous warbler, Barred
warbler, Uganda woodland warbler, Turners eremomela, various
monkey’s will also be seen. We will be back for rest before lunch
and rest till late afternoon when we do an easy walk along the road
for Chubb’s cisticola, Black and white Casqued hornbill, Ross’s
turaco, Red headed malimbe and Red headed bluebill before we
retire to hotel

Early breakfast and depart to lake Baringo with luggage, hoping to see White crested turaco along the
way, Little rock thrush, Boran cisticola. The trip to lake Baringo is generally decline elevation-wise; we
will eventually be at 985ASL, so a different bird assemblage. We will then check in for lunch at Soi
safari lodge and a bit of rest then head to Lake Bogoria for Flamingos, Jackson’s hornbill, Northern red
billed hornbill, White bellied go away bird, African grey hornbill, White bellied go away, African grey
flycatcher, Brubru, White headed buffalo, White browed sparrow weaver, Mourning collared dove
etc. We will be back Soi Safari lodge for a night.

Early boat ride for around 3 hours, the lake will yield the biggest
heron in the world Goliath heron at close quarters, purple heron,
Grey heron, Carmine bee eater, Blue cheeked be eater, malachite
kingfisher, Pied kingfisher, Squacco heron, African darter, Long
tailed cormorant, Black crake and more. We will ride to the hotel
for breakfast and afterwards go for nocturnal birds including Threebanded Courser, Slender-tailed Nightjar, and Spotted Stone Curlew.
Grayish Eagle owl, White-faced Scops-owl, Pearl-spotted Owlet,
African Scops-owl and
Giant Eagle owl. After lunch, we will rest then drive to West Bay area looking for Lichtenstein
Sandgrouse, Black-headed Lapwing, Nubian woodpecker, Cardinal woodpecker, Grey woodpecker,
D’arnaud’s barbet, Red and yellow barbet. We will then drive back to hotel

Early rise and breakfast with packed luggage depart Lake Baringo
and head to Lake Nakuru national pack for White rhino, Rotschild
giraffe, a number of birds including, Blacksmith lapwing, Hottentot
and Red billed teal, Yellow billed duck, African spoonbill, Pied
avocet, Kitlitz plover, Little stint, Augur buzzard, Common buzzard
and much more before we head for lunch and check in at Lake
Nakuru lodge. After lunch rest and later embark on another session
in the park. Night at Lake Nakuru lodge

Early morning session in the park and back for breakfast then check out pass by Kinangop grasslands
for Sharpe’s longclaw, Long-tailed widowbird as well as Jackson’s widowbird, Levaillant’s cisticola,
Wing snapping cisticola and more, then head to Nairobi for a night at Summerdale inn

Early breakfast and embark on game drive in Nairobi national park till mid-day when we stop for
lunch and proceed with game viewing and eventually come to hotel for shower and change then
head to the airport