Owen's Wildlife 2024 (1 Viewer)

[Owene]

And from the lake itself

African Finfoot

hippo
nile crocodile
water thicknee (and pied kingfisher)
african fish eagle
lesser striped swallow
white backed night heron (honest)

 

[Owene]

66 common diadem
19 Common Reed Frog

more confident about the butterfly ID than the frog






Birds 485 Mammals 56 Herp 19 Butterflies 66 Total 626 Lifers 237

 

[Owene]

Barn owl on my drive home and confirmation of a Blue pansy from Uganda moves birds and butterflies on one each

Birds 486 Mammals 56 Herp 19 Butterflies 67 Total 628 Have totally lost track of the lifers count.

 

[Owene]

African striped skink

 

[Owene]

Some more roadside birding

Papyrus Gonolek, an absolute stunner, think there's only one gonolek left to see, have to get to west Africa

bare faced go away bird.

another Black Winged Kite, such a gorgeous bird

crested Francolin, I've seen Black Francolin in Europe but didn't get photos so this was welcome

speckled mousebird properly scurrying around on the floor, amazing to watch

 

[Owene]

Tentative butterfly IDs

Mocker Swallowtail, saw some amazing swallowtails and this was probably the only photo. Apple Green Swallowtail was a real favourite.

Common pathfinder

soldier commodore

all found around the amazing Semliki hot springs , some great birds too, even if jungle photography was a steep learning curve



eastern piping hornbill

African hawk eagle

black and white shrike flycatcher

 

[Owene]

not the best photos but

blue monkey

grey cheeked mangabey

 

[Owene]

inaturalist is calling this Speckle Lipped Mabuya. The herp identifiers there seem pretty sharp so I'm sure i'll have it corrected if need be. Definitely a new species for me anyway.

 

[Owene]

Not done IDs yet but some of the best butterflies i have ever seen. all on the same track, I was incredibly annoyed when the session was cut short at about 12:30 because people wanted to go back and sit in the bar,

Beyond being a hairstreak this is proving hard to ID so far, shame as its one of the most gorgeous things I've ever seen



white banded babul blue

looks very similar to Dusky Veined Acraea from Butterflies of Uganda book but not had any inaturalist info

Eastern Mother of Pearl

variable Diadem

Tick wise here and ones i've not posted
68 Eastern Blue mother of pearl
69 African leaf butterfly
70 Common pathfinder
71 Little Pansy
72 soldier pansy/commodore
73 vulgar bush brown
74 white banded babul blue
75 mocker swallowtail
76 spotted hairtail
77 common three ring
78 Original club dot sailor
A few more need IDing but probably never will be, a formerly gorgeous but very very worn Charaxes was especially great

 

[Owene]

inaturalist is calling this Speckle Lipped Mabuya. The herp identifiers there seem pretty sharp so I'm sure i'll have it corrected if need be. Definitely a new species for me anyway.

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Not that anyone but me really cares but experts seem to be suggesting Guinea Mabuya at the very edge of it's range. We'd gone there for congo birds so getting some congo herps makes sense

 

[Owene]

From Semliki safari lodge

black coucal
batelur
crowned hornbill
african grey hornbill

abyssinian ground hornbill, absolute monster birds, loved all the hornbill
red throated bee eater
ross's turaco, finally got a shot after a lot of flyaway views
uganda kob

 

[Owene]

jumping ahead slightly but i was curious how the photo turned out

 

[Owene]

 

[Owene]

A few from the final few days, saw some good smaller birds for once athough photography suffered a bit
white eyed slaty flycatcher (non white eyed subspecies)
ugandan blueheaded tree agama
martial eagle

slender billed weaver

copper sunbird

 

[Owene]

last couple of mammals

ashy red collobus
Bohm's Squirrel
Tantalus/Vervet hybrid

 

[Frank van Drogen]

white eyed slaty flycatcher (non white eyed subspecies)

That must make the ID a pleasure

 

[Owene]

That must make the ID a pleasure

Yeah especially as birds of east Africa shows the various white eyed Subspecies and then just mentions in the text that in Uganda they don't have white eyes

 

[Owene]

A couple of European migrants and African editions of European birds. Nice to have some familiar things to latch onto. Also saw red backed shrike and common Sandpiper.

Lesser Grey Shrike
Wood sandpiper was probably the most regularly encountered wader, some of the local lapwings came in big flocks but we saw wood sand a lot
lovely spotted flycatcher at dusk
african stonechat
african pied wagtail

 

[Owene]

A few more butterfly IDs

79 I think the white hairstreak a few posts back is Fairy Hairstreak
80 western Blotched Leopard
81 Velvet tree Nymph
82 Gregori's Brown Pansy
83 Herminia Glider
Herminia Glider

velvet tree nymph

gregori's brown pansy

western blotched leopard

 

[Owene]

I'm finding the sums difficult but I think I make it 201 new species of which 149 photographed. knocked my photographed percentage down a little but didn't really kill it and it's still above 80%. My photographed mammal percentage actually rose as apart from the nocturnal ones they were all pretty easy to photograph and the bats and small rodents remained unidentified.