Wednesday 9 August 2017

Djoudj and Trois Marigots area, Northern Senegal, late December 2016


Great Egrets and Sacred Ibis


Black Herons, Spoonbills and Great Egrets

White Pelicans

Black Heron aka Umbrella bird doing what it says on the tin.



Many Black Herons were present in the Trois Marigots


Western Reef Heron

Whiskered Tern



Squacco Heron

Grass Rat

White-faced Whistling Duck keeping an eye on a large Nile Monitor Lizard


Adult male Pallid Harrier.


White-faced Whistling Ducks

A few Garganey on Grand Lac. My third visit to Djoudj and still it sends shivers down my spine. One of the bird wonders of the world.


Adult female Osprey watching the spectacle.




Not forgetting the flocks of Pintail.




Great White Pelicans fishing


Common Jackal





Arabian Bustard.






Long-tailed Nightjar

Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters

Growing greater coverts


African Darter

Immature Black-crowned Night Herons

Adult.

Great White Pelicans



A Grey Heron dwarfed by the Pelicans









Immature

African Fish Eagle

Dusty day and not good for the optics or lungs

Yellow-billed Stork

Immature male Little Bittern




Black Stork with metal ring on right leg

Juvenile Marsh Harrier


Malachite Kingfisher


Bluethroat


Sand Martins


Common Whitethroat




Adult female Osprey with Catfish


White-winged Tern and Whiskered Tern


River Prinia and Sedge Warbler

River Prinia

African Stonechat and Warthog