Sunday, 27 January 2013

Senegal Raptors

Lizard Buzzard
Our January trip to Senegal went extremely well and as a keen photographer I always come back from any tour with lots of images. This time in Africa the choice and variety of subjects was mind-blowing and as well as my beloved birds, the mammals, insects plants, people and vivid scenes of this colourful country formed many happy memories that will last a lifetime. 
A huge thank you goes to Yeray, Carlos, Manolo and Gonzalo for their happy camaraderie.


Scissor-tailed Kite

Next year Yeray and myself plan to run a birding and wildlife tour to Senegal. (Full itinerary and costings to follow) 
I'm still looking through and editing some of the best from thousands of photos. I thought I'd post some raptor photos in this first blog about the Senegal trip and interestingly we managed to see 285 different species of birds, 35 of them were raptors. Here are just some of these fantastic birds...

Grasshopper Buzzard
African Fish Eagle, adult
African Fish Eagle, juvenile
Grey Kestrel
African Harrier Hawk, juvenile
African Harrier Hawk, adult
Wahlberg's Eagle
Brown Snake Eagle
Red-necked Falcon attacking a Lanner Falcon
Lanner Falcon
Red-necked Falcon
Martial Eagle
Osprey
Pallid Harrier, young male
Yellow-billed Kite
Rüppell's Vulture (L) with White-backed Vulture
White-backed Vulture
Rüppell's Vulture, adult
From the left - White-backed, Hooded, Rüppell's and (one) GriffonVulture
White-backed Vulture

3 comments:

StourbridgeRantBoy said...

Some of the species brings back many happy memories of long trip (in between jobs) of a 4 month sojourn to Kenya over 35 years ago!

Nice stuff, are you planning to post lots of images somewhere?

Laurie -

waine said...

supurb images as usual, looks
tempting, ?caro?

Stephen Daly said...

I'll get around to processing/sorting out more pics from the trip as time permits Stourbridge... Lots to do here and off to Fuerteventura next week. Still fun and enjoying it though. Regards, Stephen

Hi Waine, I'll be looking at pricing soon. Lots of info in my head and lots of fantastic sites visited, some completely new, lots of boat trips, 285 species wasn't bad eh? Un abrazo, Stephen

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