Bijilo Forest Park is a short walk along the beach and a good place to start,there are"free" guides to show you around and Yussuf was pretty good and we hired him for a later trip.
It is known locally as the monkey park as tourists go there principally to see and feed the monkeys.
Two breeds exist side by side here,the Green Vervet and Red Colobus,the green being most numerous and receptive to humans,the colubus being more wary and aloof.
GREEN VERVET FAMILY GROUP
RED COLOBUS
Birdwise it was a good place for bee eaters and three species were seen .
WHITE THROATED BEE EATER.
The swallow tailed bee eater was seen but too distant to photograph here but was seen again later.
The Abbysinian Roller was spotted sitting up nicely
GREY HORNBILL
RED BILLED FIREFINCH
GREY PLANTAIN EATER a member of the TURACO family
It has a huge tail that it fans from side to side, and strangely does not eat plantains or bananas in the wild.
NAMAQUA DOVE moulting into breeding plumage.
This large flock of PINK BACKED PELICANS was seen in the distance.
RED EYED DOVE
BLACKCAP BABBLER
NORTHERN BLACK FLYCATCHER
CITRUS SWALLOWTAIL
ART GEKKO
COMMON GRASS YELLOW
AFRICAN TIGER
A few more Colobus monkeys to finish with.
Brilliant! (Is the Art gekko an Agama lizard?)
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