Birding Club of Lake Baringo

Excellent birding safari packages!!

Wilson Tiren “99%”, the most professional and famous bird expert in Baringo’s Birding Club, with over 10 years experience as bird guide, and renowned for his expertise in nocturnal birds spotting.

Contact: Wilson Tiren, wilstiren@yahoo.co.uk Mobile +254723528172

The Birding club of Lake Baringo was founded by the director of Bird Watching express in 2006. It was meant to bring together serious bird guides, to be incorporated in the company’s activities such as guiding away from Lake Baringo. The Club is well featured in various birding websites (www.birdingpal.org, www.fatbirder.com among many others). Bird watching express has been conducting tours within and away from Lake Baringo with help of guides like Wilson, and hopes to do so with the launch of its website www.birdwatchingexpress.com.

The area around Lake Baringo is unique because it combines the lake shore with high cliffs just a stone throw away. These conditions explain an extraordinary diversity of more than 400 bird species in a relatively small area… Your guide can not only show you giant and minuscule types of owls, but also rare, hard-to-find thick-knees, nightjars, sand grouses, coursers plus others.

Also, one has to experience this bird watching while watching out for hippos, avoiding to step on, for example, a still lying crocodile that sets eyes on a majestic goliath heron. Yet, as the area is not a national park, the odd zebras often find themselves in company of goats and cattle.

All birds are available

In Kenya no birding safari goes without a visit to Baringo

The Birding Club of Lake Baringo organizes short and longer birding safaris to anyone’s taste. Packages can be ‘tailor made’.

A typical 3-day Baringo-Bogoria birding package

Day 1: Bogoria to Baringo sundown

Lake Bogoria is special… The lake counts numerous geysers, and the water boiling up from volcanic sources can cause meters high spray of drops and steam. The water has a high content of sulphur, which creates the perfect environment for large numbers of lesser and also greater flamingos, tawny, steppe eagles, three banded and Red shank, African Gray hornbill, silver bird plus more…

13:00 Arrival Lake Bogoria shore: pick-nick: boil eggs in the geijser.

14:30 Departure for Baringo

16:00 Arrival in Baringo (Roberts’ camp)

17:00 Short end-of-the day walk along the lake shore

18:00 Sun downer on the vantage point of the magnificent escarpment

19:30 Dinner in “The Thirsty Goat”

21:00 Brief nocturnal bird tour…?

This walk will introduce you to nocturnal group of interesting birds, including: Heuglin’s courser, Slender tailed nightjar, Greyish eagle owl, White faced scops owl, Verreaux's Eagle-owl, Lichtenstein's sand grouse, White bellied canary, Cliff chat, Brown tailed rock chat, Somali golden breasted bunting, Emerald spotted wood dove, Common kestrel, Giant eagle owl, Hemprich’s hornbill, Jackson’s hornbill, Little bee eater, White throated bee eater, Madagascar bee eater, Speckled fronted weaver, Northern masked weaver, Jackson’s golden backed weaver, White billed and White headed buffalo weavers, Bristle crowned starling, Lanner falcon, Pigmy falcon, Gabar goshawk, Saker falcon, Isabelline wheatear, Pied wheatear, Dark chanting gosh hawk, Cardinal, Grey and Nubian woodpeckers, Red billed ox pecker, Red and Yellow barbet, d’Arnaud’s barbet, Rufous-crowned and Lilac-breasted rollers, African fish eagle.

Along the lake one is also sure to find hippos, preparing to go ashore for grazing (but don’t imagine yourself in Disney land: Hippos and crocs are wild and dangerous).

Day 2: Baringo island

06:30 Breakfast

07:30 Standard two-hour boat ride along the

shores, and to the island.

10:00 After arrival on the island: discovery walk, or go fishing?

12:00 Lunch on Baringo island camp (the waiter is a ‘bird-watch-man’: birds come to greet you during lunch).

13:00 Rest, pool-plunge, or find the giant monitor lizard...

15:30 Return to ‘mainland’.

16:30 Drive to west bay area for evening birding.

19:30 Dinner Baringo Style “nyama choma & ugali”, including roasted goat meat, with maize stew and some greens. There may also be cultural dances.

There are good chances to see waders like Goliath, Grey, Squacco, Green backed and Purple herons, and African jacana. Some herons get special attention from crocs, and you may find hippo families in the waves.

Day 3: Baringo cliff

06:30 Cliff walk (escarpment)

08:45 Breakfast

10:00 Departure for Nairobi.

Look forward seeing you !!!

Contact: Wilson Tiren, wilstiren@yahoo.co.uk Mobile +254723528172