Birds in Kenya

We arrived at the Amboseli National Park late in the evening and all we had time to do was have dinner and take pictures of the clear starry sky. Our campsite was surrounded by picturesque acacias, exactly the kind that are usually pictured in the imagination when thinking about the African savannahs. With such a starry sky as in Africa, getting beautiful pictures of the starry sky is much easier than at the latitude of Europe, but of course the air is not as transparent as in the mountains. In the morning I decided to get up early because usually the mountains are clearly visible in the morning, and here they promised an excellent view of the Kilimanjaro volcano right from the camping. The morning was clear, but the top of Kilimanjaro was still covered with clouds, but maybe something will change by evening. It made no sense to go to bed anymore and I decided to take a walk around the camp. I found a nestling of some bird of prey, then, hearing strange cries and going to them, I found a gray-white bird with a tuft - it was a White-bellied bananoed eater. A few more bright and noisy par Birds in Kenya rots met along the way. And after that there was a whole photo session with the yellow-billed and red-billed Toko, birds from the family of rhino birds. Although these representatives of the family do not have horns. And if someone remembers the cartoon The Lion King, then this is just the kind of bird Zazu. At 9 am, we left for a safari. Amboseli is a national park and you cannot turn off the roads here. And those roads that are in the majority are pretty well-traveled. Therefore, sometimes cars rush here very quickly. Amboseli is more deserted, in comparison with the parks in which we have already been, and only a few reservoirs boil with life. And so we drove up to the flooded areas. Whether this is not a completely dried up swamp, or overgrown lakes is not clear. But like any water, there are many animals here. Amboseli is famous for its elephants and there are really a lot of these animals here. Of course, one of the first we met zebras and wildebeest, then there were ostriches. A herd of elephants passed by and a couple of hyenas ran. A little further there were more elephants, and a few lionesses also walked past us. Here we had the opportunity to watch how elephants and other animals bathe. By the way, elephants swam not only in water, but also in dust. There is a line of elephants and from time to time, one or the other elephant showers itself with dust. But then they entered the water and here they began a new spectacle - pouring liquid mud on themselves. Apparently this is how elephants fight annoying insects - they create a protective layer of mud. Today Richard is in no hurry, although he said that we will have a leisurely day, but not to the same extent - we just stop at every more or less living creature. It gets boring, I want more drive, but there is time to take a good look at everything and take photos even on the go. After driving a little along the lifeless savanna, we saw a lake in the distance, near it herds of ungulates and ... flamingos. How we hoped that the road comes right up to the lake. But no, I managed to admire these birds again only from afar. https://jiji.co.ke/birds/page2?listing_id=-pUixJwDxfgA-348