This lioness killed a zebra one morning and then went off to sleep a short distance away. I didn't witness the killing myself, but others in our group did. This was in the same area where we saw the leopard sleeping in the tree. We returned later in the afternoon and waited to see if …
Malachite Kingfisher
This was another time when I was amazed that our driver/guide spotted this Malachite Kingfisher. It was in a gully, in the shadow, and behind us as we drove past it. It took a long time to spot it even after he tried to point it out to me. This was taken with a 400mm …
Giraffe
This giraffe was waiting for us just outside our camp when we returned for lunch one day.
Leopard
I don't know how one of the guides spotted this leopard. It was sleeping on a branch in a tree with a lot of foliage. From our vehicle I could not see it with my naked eye. After looking through a pair of binoculars I spotted it and was able to get a couple of …
Black Rhino
We had just one black rhino sighting while we were in Africa. In the mid-1900's, black rhinos were plentiful. In the 1960's settlers killed off a large number of the rhino population. By 1970, there were an estimated 65,000 black rhinos that could be found throughout sub-Saharan Africa. But in eastern Africa, 90 percent of …
