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Kenya, Masai Mara in May


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And some elephants, feeding on juicy green grass or challenging each other.

 

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How nice to see photos of Malaika, as she was the first wild cheetah I ever saw. Your pictures, particularly the first few of the lions, have such rich colors and dramatic skies...just marvelous. I also really like the sparring impala; beautiful animals, really.

 

Funny/stupid anecdote: as I was scrolling through your post, a trick of the light and my mouse pointer somehow made the closeup buffalo appear to blink. I certainly jumped.

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Really enjoying this report - in love with your photos! Three leopards, that must have been amazing - I love the photo of the two! And what an interesting story about the cub in the wrong pride - poor thing. I'm glad the wrong pride accepted it temporarily but also glad it got back to the right place! I will have to stop "liking" every post or you will have too many in your notifications, as I like them all!

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I saw on both sides many birds like the widow birds and the whyddahs with their breeding adorning and in the Triangle some birds of prey, amongst them, the unusual sighting of an African harrier-hawk or gymnogene, and more water birds.

 

A couple of pictures of a long-crested eagle

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Lappet-faced vulture

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Rufous-bellied heron

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Yellow-fronted canaries???

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Pin-tailed whydahs

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Martial Eagle juvenile

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Black-chested snake eagle

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Grey Kestrel

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@@Marks

 

You can only find those saturated colours and dramatic morning skies in the green season.

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Hi Mike,

 

Thanks for posting your report on the Mara. I've been there a few times and look forward to returning next year (totally counting down the days). When I've been there in the past the rangers were quite concerned about the rhinos as the population in the triangle as been somewhat improving over the last few years. This is in large part due to one particular female who has been a bit of a baby making machine. I suspect that you may have seen her and her calf?

 

At any rate, the Mara Conservancy (which administers the Mara Triangle section of the Masai Mara Reserve) have requested that people refrain from posting pictures of rhino taken in the triangle as they fear poachers will analyze the background for landmarks and that may help them locate a rhino's territory.

 

I know that it all sounds a bit paranoid but if you do post any rhino pictures can you blur the background or only post close-up shots with minimal background landscape viewable.

 

Cheers,

 

Paul

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offshorebirder

Bokeh for conservation tradecraft. Thanks for the reminder @@PT123.

 

Sadly, this reminds me of Crane conservation groups in North America, asking people to refrain from publicly posting Eastern Whooping Crane locations on the Internet. Both to protect them from bad guys as well as birders and photographers loving them to death...

 

Here's to the day both species are plentiful enough to track on Twitter ad nauseam!

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@@TonyQ

 

Thank you once again for following this report and for showing your interest in it.

 

@@PT123

 

I am not intended to post any pictures of the rhinos I've seen in the Triangle and the Mara. What about rhinos' pictures taken in other places of Kenya?

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Thank you @@Bush dog

 

That's a good question, I'm not aware of any other conservancies making similar requests. Perhaps others on ST can comment.

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Some last pictures to close the report

 

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The personalities of the animals really come through in your photos. A lot of depth to this trip. Everything was out and about!

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I agree with Lynn - not only are the images and colors beautiful, but your portraits are all very eloquent.

 

About the rhino photos, I have just posted a whole bunch myself but now wondering if I did the right thing...

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madaboutcheetah

That Topi portrait is a stunner!!! The Topi herds around the Rekero camp area seemed phenomenal during my visit end of March.

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You´re not really already finished, are you? Surely there must be more of these wonderful pics...

 

Love the topi as well! :)

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Thanks to all of you for your support.

 

I still have about 15 pics on Kenya, made in 2008, mainly in Samburu, but as this is a topic on the Mara, I guess I will have to find another opportunity to post them???

 

@@michael-ibk

 

It's finished for this report. I will soon start a new topic "Serengeti and Ndutu/Matiti in May"

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The monochromatic lions mating picture is just spectacular!

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madaboutcheetah

Mike, that will be very helpful ....... Ndutu/Matiti in May for many of us who seek to return to that area but out of the Feb/March time frame to avoid the crowds.

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