 driving through Arusha to the airstrip, first full day |
 driving through Arusha |
 boarding flight to Loliondo airstrip, eastern Serengeti |
 Maasai dwellings below |
 bus through the back country |
 impala (female) |
 African harrier hawk (or gymnogene) with prey on the ground |
 first sight of zebras |
 first wildebeest (white-bearded gnu) |
 agama lizard |
 agama lizard |
 Kirk's dik-diks |
 classy tent accommodations |
 main tent at camp |
 gray-backed fiscal shrike |
 purple grenadier male |
 purple grenadier female |
 rufous sparrow |
 white-naped raven |
 white-naped raven |
 white-naped raven |
 dark-capped (yellow-vented) bulbul |
 superb starling |
 superb starling |
 superb starling |
 d'Arnaud's barbet (or usamiro barbet) |
 variable sunbird |
 impala (male) |
 helmeted guineafowl |
 ostrich (male) |
 ostrich (female) |
 Our Maasai translator (right) with tree that serves as "front door" to boma |
 The boma's entrance (formerly blocked by the thorn tree) |
 Maasai house |
 white hair - something unfamiliar |
 lots of touching involved |
 Maasai kids making faces for the camera |
 Maasai kids making faces for the camera |
 Maasai kids making faces for the camera |
 Maasai kids making faces for the camera |
 Maasai elder woman |
 kids saying goodbye |
 augur buzzard |
 augur buzzard |
 eastern chanting goshawk |
 black-backed jackal |
 black-backed jackal |
 white-bellied bustard (male) |
 white-bellied bustard (female) |
 our first giraffe sighting |
 African hoopoes chasing each other |
 Maasai giraffes on our walk from camp |
 Maasai giraffes arguing |
 Maasai giraffes - adult male and baby |
 cell phone photo shows how far away the giraffes were |
 Maasai giraffe babies |
 Maasai giraffe baby nursing (note dried umbilical cord - just a few days old) |
 Maasai giraffes |
 our first wart hog sighitng |
 Maasai giraffe mother and baby |
 Maasai giraffe baby and youngster (adult at left) |
 cheetah mother and cubs |
 leopard on kopje |
 young lion |
 lion cub |
 big male lion |