OK not both at the same time but on the same morning! Elephants out on the Mara plain are easier to spot than lions but at a distance, especially if they are stationary and partly obscured by bushes or scrub you can mistake them for hippos or rhino or at a push large buffalo! If…
It is easy to get hung up on the ‘big five’ when on safari and on a first/only trip that actually makes sense as it can take a long time to find them! I’m lucky because I have been several times so have had sightings of most things before. Much of my enjoyment now comes…
It was a quiet final afternoon and you could feel in the air that the rain was finally coming. We had seen a few more elephant groups over the last few days – a sign they were making their way back into the park. I was lucky and got a good stormy sky picture. The…
The morning started off well with good sightings of plains animals, gerenuk, and grevy zebra and excellent birds. The goshawk has such attractive markings and a strong but somehow delicate face. The warthog picture is a joy. You don’t often have them coming towards you – usually they are running away! The red ground sets…
Sorry about the gap in posting – as soon as the good weather comes I am out walking and taking pictures (even if my locations aren’t as exotic as Africa!!) But today is wet and grey so back to my Kenyan trip last year … The highlight of this afternoon was elephants digging for water…
As I explained in the last post, I had thought that the ostrich we saw on the nest yesterday evening had hatched just one chick so far and I was keen to check it out and see if there were some more this morning. So that was to be our first port of call. I…
The area is always arid but this year the effects of the drought took me by surprise. I have seen the river in full flood and I had seen it very low but never completely dry. These pictures, taken at roughly the same time of year, show the extent of the drought this year. This…
This family group is a matriarch a new, and very small, baby and an older sibling. As we watched, they set off across the river – mum leading the way. The river was fairly shallow and slow moving – the result of a long period of drought – but even so there are dips in…
On this trip to Samburu this was the first thing we saw!! These elephants were right next to the river bank and just enjoying the rich squelchy mud so much. The elephant in the top picture is actually rubbing its neck and trunk along the muddy rim of the bank. It makes a rasping noise…