AUGUR BUZZARD
GERENUK
GERENUK
GERENUK
TAWNY EAGLE
COMMON OSTRICH
SUPERB STARLING
Another epic holiday of a lifetime with Sandwich Bird Tours,this time to Kenya.Two weeks of all action safaris visiting six different National Parks:- Amboselli and Tsavo West in the south east, Lake Nakuru and Lake Naivasha in the north just south of the Equator,and then to finish up in two centres in the Masai Mara was a fitting climax.
I will deal with this by venue and it will by and large be a pictorial journey through the various venues.
So here goes,we arrived in Nairobi early evening and having survived the scrummage machine of immigration stayed overnight in an airport hotel and left for Amboselli after breakfast the next day.
GREY HEADED SOCIAL WEAVER AT THE ENTRANC GATE
WHITE BELLIED CANARY
COLLARED PRATINCOLE
LONG TOED PLOVER
SQUACCO HERON
LECHWE
PICKING ALL THE BIG ONES OUT
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ELEPHANT WITH CATTLE EGRET ON BOARD
ELEPHANT
SADDLE BILLED STORKS
AFRICAN JACANA
LESSER FLAMINGO
LESSER FLAMINGO
LESSER FLAMINGO
SACRED IBIS
GLOSSY IBIS
GLOSSY IBIS
THREE BANDED PLOVER
THREE BANDED PLOVER
KITTLITZ PLOVER
AFRICAN SPOONBILL
AFRICAN SPOONBILL
GOLIATH HERON
AFRICAN JACANA
AFRICAN JACANA
MARSH SANDPIPER
FLAMINGOES
AFRICAN SKIMMER
GREAT WHITE PELICAN
BLUE WILDERBEEST
BLUE WILDERBEEST OR GNU
ZEBRA
WHITE BELLIED BUSTARD
THE FIRST OF THE BIG CATS - A PAIR OF CHEETAHS IN THE SHADE
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THERE WILL BE MORE BIG CATS LATER....
LAPPET FACED VULTURE
THOMSONS GAZELLE
GREY CROWNED CRANE
A MORE APT NAME WOULD BE...….
GOLDEN CROWNED CRANE?
A REAL STUNNER.
TWO BANDED COURSER
TWO BANDED COURSER
TBC
CROWNED PLOVER
The next morning we were up early to watch the dawn breaking over Mount Kilimanjaro.
Among the Lesser Flamingoes were half a dozen Great Flamingoes
GREAT FLAMINGO -red bill with black tip.
RUFOUS NAPED LARK
LESSER STRIPED SWALLOW.
LSS
LESSER STRIPED SWALLOW
BULL ELEPHANTS
A BIG OLD TUSKER
ELEPHANT LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THOSE EARS!
CATTLE EGRETS
IMPALA
TAITA FISCAL
COMMON OSTRICH
TWO BANDED COURSER
ELEPHANTS ON THE MOVE
YELLOW FRONTED LONGCLAW
GREY HEADED KINGFISHER
There now follows a sequence with a pair of zebras having a dust up.....
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THINK ITS HONOURS EVEN.
BABOON IN THE GARDEN
ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM NEARLY.
HADADA IBIS IN THE GARDEN
HELMETED GUINEA FOWL
WHITE FACED WHISTLING DUCK.
RUFF
RED BILLED TEAL
FULVOUS WHISTLING DUCK
CAPE TEAL
CAPE TEAL
AFRICAN FISH EAGLE
GRANTS GAZELLES
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WART HOG
THE FIRST GIRAFFES OF THE TRIP
SUPERB STARLING
FISCHERS SPARROW LARK
FSL
GOLDEN WEAVER
YELLOW THROATED FRANCOLIN
LONG TAILED FISCAL
TIME TO MOVE,
VERVET MONKEY
SNOOKERED BEHIND THE BLUE.
BABOON
ELEPHANTS WERE WALKING PAST THE ROOMS ALL DAY LONG.
DUST DEVIL
HADADA IBIS
LITTLE BEE EATER IN THE GARDEN.
LBE
LBE
GREY HEADED KINGFISHER
GHK
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MORE ELEPHANTS
SPUR WINGED PLOVER
SPUR WINGED PLOVER
HIPPO
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| MONTAGUES HARRIER? |
SPUR WINGED GOOSE
A WISE OLD HEAD
CATTLE EGRET UNDER AN ELEPHANT
A DISTANT MALE LION RELAXING.
BLACK HEADED HERON
TWO YOUNG BULLS SPARRING -looks like the referee has got between them.
SPOTTED HYENA
ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME JIMMY.
WHITE BELLIED BUSTARD
WBB
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| WAIT FOR ME MA. |
NEWBORN WIDERBEEST.
DAY OF THE BLACK BACKED JACKAL
GIRAFFES
THOMSONS GAZELLE
BLACK BACKED JACKAL
SPUR WINGED PLOVERS
BLACKSMITHS PLOVER,their call sounds like a hammer striking an anvil.
AFRICAN HOOPOE so much darker than the Eurasian Hoopoe.
GREY HEADED KINGFISHER.
WIRE TAILED SWALLOW
WTS
ITS FAREWELL TO AMBOSELLI AND KILIMANJARO.
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| In 2001 I saw Kilimanjaro for the first time I was using a Canon A1 at the time and my film{remember them?} ran out at the critical moment in my haste I didn`t close the back of the camera properly and didn`t have a single shot of this wonderful mountain so please indulge me if I`ve overdone it. |
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