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Published: September 25th 2023
I was so tired last night that I went immediately to bed, slept nine hours, woke thirty minutes before the alarm, and had breakfast on time at 6:00 to leave at 7:00. I pretend I am in a different time zone.
Rather than exiting the Serengeti Park directly, we took a detour to see kopjes. These are strange, worn granite outcroppings, seemingly rising randomly from the flat landscape. In fact, they ...
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Isabel Gibson
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Excellent shots of many birds I've never heard of! The brown snake eagle, the white-bellied bustard (although I know you've posted others of these or similar), the lapwing, that amazing stork. And the cousin to the long-necked stilts I see in Phoenix. Lovely. Am I seeing spikes along the branches of the tree in which the eagle is sitting? As for this "40% of the land surface is grasslands", I remember hearing that for the first time sometime in the last few years. It wasn't something I'd ever wondered about, and I sure wouldn't have had any basis for making a guess. Just another area where my knowledge is sorely lacking.