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Serengeti,Tanzania, 22&23 May 2024

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  Elephant snacks  One of 3 males Difficult to imagine, let alone photograph  Thousands of wildebeest crossing the road Hildebrand's starling to the right  (no white,red eye) Superb to the left  Silver bird Grumeti river, soon to be crossed by a few wildebeest  White-bellied bustard Spot the lion.... Topi Giraffe ....in the tree! 5 lions in the camp 1st night, genet under the cruiser 2nd night

Ngorongoro Tanzania, 20&21 May 2024

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Flamingoes   Pelicans Lions Lichen? Moss? Eastern Double collared Sunbird? Golden-winged sunbird Olive babs Tacazze sunbird Buffalo Black rhino Elephant kissing? No leopards In the camp 1st night, Hippo chasing a herd of Buffalo,  2nd night, elephants and Buffalo (licked the dew off the tent).

Tsavo West NP Kenya, 30 April to 2 May 2024

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Rosy-patched bushshrike  Lesser kudu Female Red-bellied Parrot (Bad photo, check the eye, females have green belly) Von der Decker's Hornbill  (Mrs & Mr) Kilimanjaro in the morning Coke's hartebeest  Chestnut Weaver  Butterflies  Fish @ Mzima springs, Tsavo (Major source of water for Mombasa) Worm Golden-breasted starling  Acacia & Kilimanjaro  Female Pygmy Falcon Fringe-eared oryx 

Samburu NP Kenya, 19&20 April 2024

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Kenyan rock agama Buff-crested Bustard Gerenuk  Beisa Oryx D'Arnaud's barbet  Kenyan storm clouds Kirk's Dik Dik Gerenuk's neck Long-tailed Fiscal? Juvenile Red-backed Shrike  (Thanks Dean) Vulturine Guineafowl! Grevy's Zebra Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill  Golden-bellied Starling Somali bee-eater  Straw-tailed Whydah   Black-faced Sandgrouse  Reticulated giraffe  Eastern Chanting ???Your unknown photo is Caralluma retrospiciens, also called Desmidorchis retrospiciens. Thanks Kim