The weather was lovely when we headed out late afternoon and the
light soft and gentle. No new sightings but a couple of different views.
Another lone male elephant probably chucked out of the herd as he's reached pubity and was making a nuisance of himself. He could be the one we saw yesterday feeding up from the tree branches as we're in more or less the same area.
This line of, almost, perfectly spaced out zebras somehow appeals to me.
Buffalo Weaver Nests and Buffalo.
This is most definitely a case of "If I can't see you, then you can't see me"
What we can see though is that this Black Rhino's 2nd horn was considerably longer than the primary one - most unusual.
We spent ages with this small herd of Ellies and watched them dusting themselves.
And finally they headed off into the sunset.
Growing up in rural Kenya is tough - these are just kids looking after the cattle.
What a beautiful smile she has, I wonder what her life is like and what kind of future she will have.
A lesson in light - light in front vs light behind subject.
Mousebird (out of focus but it's the only one I got).
Grey Headed Kingfisher
After that we went looking for leopard again but didn’t see any. We stopped for our sundowner where 100s of storks were coming into roost on the tops of the Acacia trees – they reminded me of parachutists dropping down but obviously no photo as I really can’t do birds in flight, but I managed one of them once landed.
Standing by the truck while Joseph sorted out the G&Ts I could hear a hissing noise coming from his tyre. I almost didn’t say anything in case it was normal and always happened, but luckily I did as Ian then noticed a twig about 10x0.5cm sticking out of the tyre. I was all for heading straight back to camp but Joseph produced a few tools, knelt down, pulled the twig out with his teeth and then plugged the hole with some kind of mastic – job done!
