Superb Sunday visitors
It's a very hot, quiet, lazy Sunday. I wanted to go back out to the field today and nail down the last of the juvenile IDs but no such luck. The people who work here, go out to the field day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. This is not a six week adventure for them so they really do need a day off once a week.
Sunday's are special days around camp. The main event is pancakes for breakfast (think thick, greasy crepes that are quite delicious). Theoretically it's also a day when people can sleep in which in most cases mean people get up around 6 instead of at 5 am. It's very hard to sleep in around here which works well for me as I'm an extreme morning person. The birds start waking up around 5:45, it starts getting light very soon after that, and since you're all in tents, once the first person gets up, you can pretty much hear everything going on. This particular Sunday morning started with a roar, literally at 5:15.
Given that going out to the field was not an option, I decided to read a mystery and take pictures of the game around camp.
The prettiest visitors, in my opionion, were the Superb starlings. We have about 15 species of birds that commonly hang out right in front of the kitchen. They drink out of water bowls that Nkii leaves out for them and eat off the dishes that haven't been washed yet.
As I was sitting outside the kitchen waiting for the birds to come around (it's that phenomenon where animals are constantly doing something until you get your camera out), when an adult female vervet came around a bush and saw me. We had several vervets around today.
Finally, a small group of elephants walked by and as you can see, they literally walked across our driveway.
This all happened before lunch. What a place.
For the cat lovers, I also saw a very lean, grey tabby with tan splotches all over and a nearly red tail tip. I've never seen a cat with coloring even remotely similar.
The top picture is better on black.
Superb Sunday visitors
It's a very hot, quiet, lazy Sunday. I wanted to go back out to the field today and nail down the last of the juvenile IDs but no such luck. The people who work here, go out to the field day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. This is not a six week adventure for them so they really do need a day off once a week.
Sunday's are special days around camp. The main event is pancakes for breakfast (think thick, greasy crepes that are quite delicious). Theoretically it's also a day when people can sleep in which in most cases mean people get up around 6 instead of at 5 am. It's very hard to sleep in around here which works well for me as I'm an extreme morning person. The birds start waking up around 5:45, it starts getting light very soon after that, and since you're all in tents, once the first person gets up, you can pretty much hear everything going on. This particular Sunday morning started with a roar, literally at 5:15.
Given that going out to the field was not an option, I decided to read a mystery and take pictures of the game around camp.
The prettiest visitors, in my opionion, were the Superb starlings. We have about 15 species of birds that commonly hang out right in front of the kitchen. They drink out of water bowls that Nkii leaves out for them and eat off the dishes that haven't been washed yet.
As I was sitting outside the kitchen waiting for the birds to come around (it's that phenomenon where animals are constantly doing something until you get your camera out), when an adult female vervet came around a bush and saw me. We had several vervets around today.
Finally, a small group of elephants walked by and as you can see, they literally walked across our driveway.
This all happened before lunch. What a place.
For the cat lovers, I also saw a very lean, grey tabby with tan splotches all over and a nearly red tail tip. I've never seen a cat with coloring even remotely similar.
The top picture is better on black.