Enjoying the EL’s in their natural environment… (1 Viewer)

[safaridreaming]

a few more bird pics…

An immature Verreaux Eagle, a White Bellied Bustard, a Saddle Billed Stork in front of a hippo, several tens of thousands of Lesser Flamingos, and the ubiquitous Superb Starling which seems to welcome and entertain us at every lodge and outdoor meal

 

[antoine22]

We’re now in the Masai Mara and the EL’s are perfect for this environment. The grasslands and savannah’s here roll as far as the eye can see so we set our focus to midpoint and it allows us to scan the foreground, midground and background in the same view….. the flat field of the EL allows the entire FOV to resolve enough for us to clearly identify game from termite mounds and low bushes which subsequently minimises the amount of scanning movement we need to do.

Ohh I see you're at Mara Serena! Really good choice. Enjoy the triangle, it's a very special place that I hold very close to my heart

 

[claves_10]

Thanks for sharing those wonderful images with us....Enjoy those wonderful areas more and more punished by human activities.

 

[Jason Bugay Reyes]

Hope can visit the place one day

 

[Maljunulo]

Some more non bird shots of some of the game we’re seeing…..all shot on Nikon D500 with 18-300 lens and post processed.

I think with big cats, there could be questions of who is “game” the cat or the primate with optics.

 

[safaridreaming]

Thanks for sharing those wonderful images with us....Enjoy those wonderful areas more and more punished by human activities.

Yes it’s been a few yrs since I’ve been back to Kenya and I’m surprised at the amount of development that has happened across the country. In Masai Mara and Lake Nakuru particularly, development seems to be pushing hard against the park / reserve boundaries and its not uncommon seeing town / city lights at night.

on a more positive note, there seems to be a lot more private Conservancies on the borders of the gazetted Parks and Reserves through Public / Private Partnerships and Community Trusts which is actually quarantining tracts of land for wildlife. In some respects this is good as it aims to preserve historical seasonal movements for wildlife, but it also means game is now more dispersed vs being concentrated in Parks and Reserves previously…

Ohh I see you're at Mara Serena! Really good choice. Enjoy the triangle, it's a very special place that I hold very close to my heart

Yeah Mara Serena this time - we wanted to spend a bit of time in the Mara triangle and also get away from the larger groups of tourists in the main Reserve. Unfortunately we missed the Migration by a few days but resident wildlife was amazing nonetheless. Bit light on bird life here compared to Samburu / Amboseli this time a of the yr though.

 

[safaridreaming]

I think with big cats, there could be questions of who is “game” the cat or the primate with optics.

True - as long as the primate with optics stays in the car the Cats struggle to differentiate the smaller object from the larger one, but once you get out of your vehicle, you’re fair ”game”…...and yes there are knuckleheads that do that…..

 

[Maljunulo]

The same type of knucklehead who does that with elephants.

Anyone who doesn't have enough sense to be afraid of a full-grown African elephant is too stupid to be walking around loose.