A view across the Mara with hot air balloons.
Trilling Cisticola
Marsh Mongoose
Defassa Waterbuck
Heavy rain, but the Waterbuck seem preoccupied with something in the long grass
Southern Ground Hornbill
A rather bedraggled lion in the rain
Hippos in the Mara river
Schalow's Turaco
Quail Finch
Plain-backed Pipit
Serengeti White-bearded Wildebeast
Rosy-breasted Longclaw
Yellow-billed Oxpeckers
Common Warthogs
Little Bee-eater
Coqui Francolin
Spotted Hyena
Kory's Bustard
Five brothers resting in the shade
Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
Capped Wheatear
Cape Bushbuck, seen from Matira bush camp
African Fish Eagle
Juvenile Spotted Hyena
White-headed Mousebird
Topi
Bat-eared Fox
Lioness and cub
An electrical storm developed after dark. Lots of lightning, not so much thunder and no rain.
Silhouettes at sunset
Leaving Mara, we headed towards Lake Naivasha staying at Elsamere. Next morning we took a walk around the grounds in the rain. There we manged to find Spotted Eagle Owl. We had tried for these on the access track to Hellsgate - but newly fitted razor wire along the fence seemed to have put them off their usual area.
Yellow-billed Storks
African Jacana
Giant Kingfisher
Red-knobbed Coot
Great Cormorant
Goliath Heron
African Spoonbill
Pink-bakced Pelican
Reed Cormorant
We searched for a Red-necked Phalarope that had been reported by the boatmen over the last week o so, but there was no sign of it.
Hottentot Teal
African Paradise Flycatcher
Arrow-marked Babbler
Variable Sunbird
Rufous Sparrows are attracted to the wing mirror.
We then returned to Nairobi for one night before moving on to phase two, Ngulia Lodge, of our time in Kenya via Aberdare National Park (on a very wet morning) stopping on the way for more species. By now the tally exceeded 600.
Stripped Grass Mouse
Alpine Chat
Syke's Monkey
Abyssinian Ground Thrush