Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Seal, Sunset, Swakopmund

While enjoying the sunset at the beach in Swakopmund, Namibia, we saw a seal basking in the last rays of sun:

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Huge Butterfly at Mt Elgon NP

During a walk in a rainforest in Kenyan part of Mt Elgon, we encountered this pretty butterfly:

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Namibian Rock Agama

I've been always fascinated by the beautiful patterns and colors that lizards have. Here is one of my favorite lizards - Namibian Rock Agama:

Here is a female:

And here is a male (like in the case of birds, male is more colorful than female):

Friday, May 20, 2011

Vultures Feast - a movie

Here is a movie of vultures fighting over remnants of a gnu in Masai Mara NP:

Monday, May 16, 2011

Vulture Feast

Here is a group of vultures feasting on a recent prey that Masai Mara lions had for breakfast:

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Vulture in the Sky

Masai Mara NP is a fantastic place to observe nature in action. Not only you can see there many exotic animals, but you can also observe their daily activities.

We found vultures to be an invaluable help in finding fresh dead corpses of other animals. Since they are high-fliers, we could see them from miles away and could navigate our car in their direction:

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Red Starfish

Part of our holidays in Kenya we spent at the coast south of Mombasa. The beach there was wonderful, and the ocean even better. It was so full of animals that you could simply go for a walk in the water and pick them with your bare hands:


Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Spotted Frog in Uganda

In Uganda, close to the border with Rwanda and Congo, we met this little cute frog that was so afraid of us that was not even moving when I was touching it:

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Pelicans in California

While visiting Channel Islands NP in California last year, we encountered thousands of pelicans. Below are photos of a few of them: