Just a thought as I am now working in Sudan (Khartoum) - if only Einion the osprey (or his siblings were to make a bit of an eastern detour down Africa way - maybe I could get to see them! )
Meanwhile birding it up tropically on the Blue Nile (White Nile and Blue Nile converge in Khartoum) - lots of greater blue-eared starlings, Little and European beeaters, Tacazze sunbird, Abyssinian rollers, common bulbuls, black-headed herons etc (and I think I may have seen a migrating spotted flycatcher)
Terry Barry