Kenya - Thursday, Lake Nakuru, mid-Morning wander

Straight after breakfast we decided to head out for another walk around the camp, although by this time I was struggling having taken both and anti-histamine and a decongestant the previous night to try and deal with my reaction to breathing in so much of the dry lake bottom.

Outside our room door, a male Rufous Sparrow was searching for food:



This Sunbird is a mystery. It has a green throat but is mostly black apart from that, it also has a long tail, and according to our field guide, it doesn’t exist. Any suggestions or input welcome please, thank you:



Also outside our room, a punk looking woodpecker, the male (possibly teenage?) Cardinal Woodpecker:



An African Black-headed Oriole flew to a tree overlooking us and had a good stare:



In another tree (lots of them about) an African Thrush, distinguished from the Olive Thrush by the lesser amount of orange on either side of the breast and a yellow bill:



We heard this next bird first, then it joined a small group and all four of them chatted and cackled together, zooming around, before settling. This one then came and had a look at us. Their behaviour put us in mind of the Babblers of India. Sure enough this is an Arrow-marked Babbler:



Next another spotted form Yellow-breasted Apalis:



Next another weird looking (to a Brit) little bird, a Bronze Mannikin:



Finally after a few fruitless days I finally managed a Common Waxbill photograph too:



Another very elusive bird, as you can tell from this photograph, the Scarlet-breasted Sunbird:



I reckon this is a Willow Warbler, wintering in Kenya:



The last bird of our morning walk turned out to be a female Purple Grenadier, and I was sure before we set-off we wouldn’t see a single one of these birds: