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| Grey Kestrel - the name Grey Falcon has been taken! |
The Masai Mara is a must. It is a huge wilderness area which
runs unfenced southward into the Serengeti of Tanzania. Here thousands of
animals call home. This is the Africa of BBC fame and Elephants, Giraffes,
Buffalo, Lion and Leopard and other equally impressive mammals not-of-the Big
five status survive. In the grassland various cisticolas, pipits, larks,
widowbirds, weavers and whydahs compete with queleas for attention in addition
to sandgrouse and ornamental oxpeckers. The traditional human occupants of this
region, the Masai, have been moved to the park’s edges with their herds of
cattle and goats but can still be seen following their traditional ways of life
– walking with their animals, bright red blanket wrapped around their waists,
wooden club firmly held in hand and a mobile phone pressed firmly against their
elongated ear lobes. At a tented camp in
Mara West I fulfilled a small dream of being woken, around midnight, by the
roaring of lions. I was reminded that canvas is quite a thin material.
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Cheetah
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Lioness
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| Male Yellow-throated Sandgrouse |
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| Female Yellow-throated Sandgrouse |
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| White-bellied Bustard |
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| Secretary Bird collecting nesting material |
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| Zebras on the Mara |
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| Quailfinch |
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| Helmeted Guineafowl |
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