Ngong Forest

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Sep 25 2009 | By: ngongforest

For a period of two weeks i have been watching the behaviour of the crowned eagle. The female is most of the time confined to the nest while the male goes out to hunt. Sometimes when the male has taken long to come the female calls and after some minutes the male comes back and sit in the nest . It doesn’t take long for the female to come back carrying a young Sykes Monkey which it places in the nest. The male goes out to look for its share. Within some minutes Pied crows and yellow billed kites flies around hoping to get a share from the nest but the crowned eagle is in control and no bird dares to come closer.

African crowned eagle

Last year, nesting was interfered with by rain and cold weather, the egg never hatched and the pair of bird disappeared for a while.This time when you look at the bird you will note some physical changes such as rough feathers , loss of weight and feathers and the bird looks dull. We hope this time conditions will be favourable for hatching.

The Ngong Road Forest Sanctuary Trust,commonly refereed to as the Nairobi’s carbon sink is protected through kind donation from friends and well wishers, join us by donating towards the protection of this adorable forest resource.

By Nicholas Akach

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