On our short trip to Liberia in 2007, an old friend took me to check out the birds at the Fendel campus of the University of Liberia, several miles north of Monrovia. I remembered this location as being something of a birding hot spot; and on this visit, once again, we were not disappointed. In just a few hours, we had a list of 41 species!
As we strolled around, I noticed these Lesser Striped Swallows resting on the crossbar of a soccer goal! While they soaked up the hot midmorning sunshine, I was able to take a few pictures through my scope. The Lesser Striped Swallow is a regular intra-African migrant to coastal Liberia during the dry season, but is nowhere very common.
