Jack and I were sitting in a (not-yet-ready-for-primetime) new roof-top terrace in Zamalek last evening, when we saw a bird that we’d never seen in Cairo before.
Not my photo. From Wikipedia.com.
When I got home, I had to look up what it was. It is an European Bee-eater. It uses the Nile Valley as a flyway for migration. It is a common visitor in the Springtime! How delightful!
You should see the flocks of them out in the countryside near my farm. Fantastic aerial acrobats.
What a dramatic looking bird! I’m quite jealous of your sighting.