Joining our second Great Grevy's Rally! Again in our favorite place: Laikipia Wilderness Camp.
Ofcourse we were a bit early at Schiphol. But that simply provides: Gin-Tonic-Time (with "Bitterballs") !
This time no miss between tiles (KLM) but a friendly Lion (Kenya Airways).
Let's start our trip for real now! (In the car on our way to Nanyuki)
Complete garden center just at the side of the road.
The first rain this trip (and not the last!) In the cab on our way to Nanyuki for the registration.
After registration Mugambis car (who would take us from here to laikipia) wouldn't start. Time for us to go back and take some pictures!
Arriving at the registration for GGR2020 at Cape Chestnut Nanyuki.
The registration "office"
TV interview with Belinda Low Mackey, Co-Founder of Grevy's Zebtra Trust
Passer rufocinctus
Sparrow, Kenya (M)
Part 1 of our "uniform": The cap !
Acryllium vulturinum
Guineafowl, Vulturine
Loxodonta africana
Elephant, African Bush
Tockus deckeni
Hornbill, Von der Decken's (M)
Tockus erythrorhynchus
Hornbill, Red-billed (F)
Plocepasser mahali
Sparrow-weaver, White-browed
Superb Starling mobbing a Verreaux's Eagle-Owl
Bubo lacteus
Eagle-Owl, Verreaux's (Superb Starling mobbing)
Eagle-Owl, Verreaux's
We may not count you today but we hope to see you tomorrow!
Ardeotis kori
Bustard, Kori (M)
Crocuta crocuta
Hyena, Spotted
Melierax poliopterus
Chanting-goshawk, Eastern
Rhodophoneus cruentus
Bushshrike, Rosy-patched (M)
Vachellia drepanolobium
Whistling thorn
Crematogaster mimosae
Ant, Saint Valentine
You can see part of the "Ethiopia–Kenya HVDC Interconnector" this is a 500Kv 1044km long connection between Ethiopia and Kenya. Not completely finished yet...
Oenanthe oenanthe
Wheatear, Northern
Burhinus capensis
Thick-knee, Spotted
Stigmochelys pardalis
Tortoise, Leopard
If you want a headshot but have a rather large lens on your camera ... this is the effect!
Buteo augur
Buzzard, Augur (I)
Looking from high ground if there are grevy's somewhere.
Polemaetus bellicosus
Eagle, Martial (I)
This is why we need long lenses. Do you see the young Martial Eagle?
Agama lionotus
Agama, Kenyan Rock (F)
Anas erythrorhyncha
Teal, Red-billed
Eurema brigitta
Yellow, Broad-bordered Grass
Apis mellifera
Honeybee, Western
Brachythemis leucosticta
Groundling, Southern Banded (M)
During the Great Grevys Rally we still have time to photograph little creatures. Okay the rest is having lunch but still...
