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Gambia

A relaxing stay at Mandina Lodges, with a lot of bird (and a small amount of mammal) interest.

Mornings were cool, but by midday it became very hot.
We went on morning boat trips and stayed by the pool in the afternoon,
where pied kingfishers and bee eaters dived in to wash themselves...or cool off

Green monkeys were in the grounds, and a troup of around 200 baboons lived in the forest.
They were actively discouraged due to the damage that they caused.
There was also a colony of Gambian Epauletted Fruit Bats in the restaurant...
a bit messy, but very entertaining!

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Mandina Jungle Lodge 3	Mandina Pool view	Western Reef Heron	Great White Egret	Great White Egret
Pink Backed Pelican	Blue Cheeked Bee Eater	Anhinga_Darter_Snake Bird	Great White Egret reflection	Long Tailed Reed Cormorant
Nightjar species	Western Reef Heron	Male Fiddler Crab	Giant Kingfisher	Bronze mannikins drinking
Greenshank hunting	Red Eyed Dove	Blue Bellied Roller	Osprey taking off	Nile Crocodile
Pied Kingfisher by the Pool	Gambian Epauletted Fruit Bat colony Restaurant	Caspian Tern with lunch	Hooded Vulture in flight	Osprey
Guinea Baboons	Green Monkey	Two Green Monkeys	Laughing Dove	Pied Crow
Verreauxs or Giant Eagle Owl	Long Tailed Nightjar	Blue Spotted Wood Dove	African Grey Hornbill	Village Weaver weaving_maybe non breeding male practising?
White Throated Bee Eater	White Throated bee Eater male	Female Pied Kingfisher	Agama Lizard	Blue Bellied Roller taking off
Green Monkey peering through leaves	Red Colobus resting on branch	Green Monkey in mangroves	Green Monkey digging for food	The Beautiful Sunbird
Pied Wing Swallows	Tanji fishermen	Tanji fishermen	Tanji beach fishmarket	Grey Headed Gulls Tanji
Sanderling and Turnstones at Tanji	Shikra	Purple Heron about to take off	Nile Crocodile head	Rice and potato fields
Grey Heron	Western Grey Plantain Eater	Senegal Thick Knee	Whimbrel in mangroves	Yellow Billed Kite
Black Kite	Palmnut Vulture	Local cow	Goliath Heron	Black Heron Umbrella Bird and Great White Egret
Blue Breasted Kingfisher	Spur Winged Plover or Lapwing	Squacco Heron	Bee Fly	Wattled Lapwing or plover
Purple Glossy Starling	African Harrier Hawk or Gymnogene	Abyssinian or Senegal Roller	Blackcap Babblers drinking	African Paradise Flycatcher
Dwarf Bittern (do not confuse with Squacco)	Senegal Coucal	Black Umbrella Heron	Lesser Jacana	Hammerkop stretching
Driver Ants crossing footpath	Black Tailed Godwit	Long Tailed Glossy Starling	Yellow Billed Shrike	Rain Spider
Mandina Floating Lodges in afternoon

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