A bird flitted out of the long grass and landed at eye level in a dark-green bush. It glared right at me as I leaned out of the Landcruiser’s roof opening. Here was the meadowlark “look-a-like” that I’d ogled at repeatedly in the East African bird book. This individual had a black-V across its yellow … Read more
Only the base of the yellow bill showed above the water. The bird’s beak was pointing straight down, and it moved back and forth, latterly. A Yellow-billed Stork, my first ever sighting, was feeding in a small pond in Nairobi National Park. My brain wanted to study every detail of this bird, watch its behavior, … Read more
A purplish-blue blob zipped across in front of us and landed on a twig. I yelled for our driver to stop.
Two cats lay in the road and would not move. They were not ordinary cats but rather two male African Lions. They looked out with dignity and grace, never once acknowledging that we were watching them. Finally, they rose and left.