Tuesday 18 March 2014

Sunset at Sandele, Kartong






Northern Carmine Bee-eater

African Hobby

Juvenile female panicking with a fish






Blackcap Babblers


Eurasian Black Kite


African Hoopoe. Pale mantle and large white blocks in secondaries identify it as senegalensis.


Red-billed Firefinch family




Four-banded Sandgrouse (female)

Melodious Warbler 

Northern Crombec. Tiny Nuthatch like bird that rarely sits still.



Wasp nest






Pink-backed and White Pelicans on a roadside pool. 

If I had the choice of either climbing this tree or being eaten by Lions I would choose the Lions. 


Tree Pipits wintering in a Cashew Nut plantation.


Cashew Nuts

Sunrise at Kaolack, Senegal. 

African Swallow-tailed Kite. 

Presumably the lack of black carpals is age related?





Lesser Kestrels coming into roost

African Swallow-tailed Kite



The Kaolack pot holes claim another victim

Ground nut lorry. You can see why we have certain rules in the UK.