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March 24, 2017

2017-03-24: Feel Good Friday

I’ve not posted a feel good Friday post in some time, and decided I needed to share a bit of elephant love!

Wishing everyone a fantastic weekend.

DSC_9279-Edit — A pair of elephants giving our vehicle the sniff check.

DSC_8492-Edit — Young elephants playing at the edge of Amboseli Swamp. If I could only pick one animal to see in Africa, it would be the elephant. They are always such a joy to watch.

DSC_8482-Edit — Mama and siblings gather around the baby while it naps. Elephants are so wonderfully protective of their young.

March 22, 2017

2017-03-22: Wordless Wednesday

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March 21, 2017

2017-03-21: WPC Atop

The WordPress prompt for the week is Atop – photographs showing a vantage point of being above the subject. I hope you enjoy my selection of images from my travels.

DSC_8335-Edit — The expanse of the Amboseli National Park, and a dust-devil in the distance. Viewed from the Amboseli lookout point.

DSC_8306-Edit — Another view from the Amboseli lookout.

DSC_6634-Edit — Coming in to land at the airstrip in Selenkay.

DSC_6629-Edit — A view of a Maasai village from the air; somewhere on route to Porini’s Mara camp.

DSC_5539-Edit — Near the Ishasha Wilderness Camp, we found a lovely spot perched over the river valley, the perfect place to watch the sunrise.

DSC_5532-Edit — From our perch in Ishasha, not only did we watch the sunrise, but we also watched some hyena hassle a group of crowned cranes.

DSC_5520-Edit — Another day, and the start of another lovely sunrise in Ishasha.

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WPC Atop

March 20, 2017

Happy first day of Spring! My goodness I am certainly happy to say that, and also very happy that it is finally starting to feel like winter has loosened its grip around here. I’m at the point now where only 50% of my lawn is still cover in snow!

For today, I thought I would share a mixed bag of photos from my trip to East Africa.

Happy Monday all, and have a wonderful week!

DSC_5225-Edit — A juvenile gorilla with a tasty branch.

DSC_6696-Edit — A young lion amongst the acacia.

DSC_8379-Edit — A spooky tree that I think would be amazing to shoot with the stars in the background. Fingers crossed I find some more spooky trees on my next trip.

DSC_8568-Edit — A pair of hyena pups wrestle outside of the den site near the Amboseli airstrip.

DSC_9153-Edit — A giraffe in a fever tree forest in Ol Kinyei Conservancy in Kenya.

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March 15, 2017

2017-03-15: Wordless Wednesday

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March 14, 2017

2017-03-14: WPC Wish

The prompt for the week is to show a wish, and mine is simple, but it seems at the moment, not easy at all. I wish for all these beautiful, wild creatures to be safe, and have the opportunity to live long, natural lives without knowing the horror of poaching or human / wildlife conflict.

DSC_4992-Edit — A tender moment between mama and baby. Truly a magical thing to witness. Uganda, September 2016.

DSC_5744-Edit — A bachelor group of elephants in Queen Elizabeth Park. September, 2016.

DSC_8951-Edit — A pair of lion cubs playing in the Masai Mara. September, 2016.

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WPC Wish

March 13, 2017

2017-03-13: Monochrome Monday

20170313 MondochromeMonday.jpg — What a regal looking guy! Lion, Masai Mara, September, 2017. 1/320 sec, f7.1, ISO 100

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March 12, 2017

2017-03-12: Kingfishers

Again this week I am replacing my “What I’ve seen this week” post with some photos from my time in Uganda. Basically, because all I have seen recently is snow… and not the nice to photograph, snow glistening from sunlit trees… the regular, driveway and road clogging, get out the snow blower and get on with the day kind of snow. Perhaps my desire for winter to end is a bit apparent!!! But anyways, on with today’s post.

During my time in Uganda, I took an afternoon boat trip along the Kazinga channel, where I saw more kingfishers in under 3 hours than I had seen in all my life before, combined. I’m not exaggerating to say there were hundreds of individuals there. There are nesting colonies along the river banks with dozens of birds at each site, and it just kept going and going.

Note, I meant to post this much earlier in the day, but I have been having nothing but issues with the WordPress “http error” when trying to upload images. My workaround was loading them to Google Drive, downloading to my mobile phone and uploading to media that way, but it certainly isn’t an efficient work around. Hopefully the “Happiness Engineers” will have some info as to how to resolve this issue.

Now, onto the pictures.

It was easy enough to get a photo of a pair of kingfishers as we cruised along, but the tree had probably 20+ birds in it.

A malachite kingfisher spotted in the reed beds.

A happy couple perched on an acacia tree.

My first sighting of a woodland kingfisher – what a beauty!

Another view of the malachite in the reeds. I spotted two of these while on the cruise, but only managed decent-ish photos of one.

It was very loud from all the calling and chattering by the pied kingfishers.

The pied kingfishers nest in the steep banks of the channel.

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March 8, 2017

2017-03-08: Wordless Wednesday

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March 6, 2017

2017-03-06: Monochrome Monday

After a few posts dedicated to my time with the gorillas, I thought I’d better get back to a bit of variety. I hope you enjoy my choices for Monochrome Monday.

Have a great week everyone!