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27 Nov 2019: The Liben Lark - For Whom the Bell Tolls
"No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent… Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls...
Nov 27, 20192 min read
26 Nov 2019: Goba to Negele
I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes...
Nov 26, 20193 min read
25 Nov 2019: Sanetti Plateau
The morning started well with a murder. A murder of Somali Crows gathered outside Goba. The Oxford Dictionary indicates that this...
Nov 25, 20192 min read
24 Nov 2019: Bale Mountains
The Bale Mountains in southeast Ethiopia rise majestically from the surrounding plains. Formed by ancient volcanic activity and dissected...
Nov 24, 20192 min read
23 Nov 2019: Wondo Genet to Bale Mountains
It had rained the previous evening, so we decided to head for the Bale Mountains directly after breakfast. A pre-breakfast walk ticked a...
Nov 23, 20194 min read
22 Nov 2019: Wondo Genet
Mekemen really came into his own at Wondo Genet. This was his home territory, and here he had home ground advantage. He knew every call...
Nov 22, 20192 min read
21 Nov 2019: Abijatta-Shalla Lakes National Park
Our next destination was situated 56 km south-west of Ziway and comprised of two lakes, Lake Abijatta and Lake Shalla. This nature...
Nov 21, 20192 min read
20 Nov 2019: Ziway
The rather degraded and overgrazed Ali Dege Plains are inhabited by a mixture of Afar and Somali tribes which periodically settle their...
Nov 20, 20192 min read
19 Nov 2019: How to ID an Ostrich
OSTRICH: A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe… The absence of a good working pair of wings...
Nov 19, 20192 min read
18 Nov 2019: The Midnight Goatsucker
Ethiopia is a country of diverse landscapes and habitats, mainly due to being diagonally bisected by the Great Rift Valley. Our next...
Nov 18, 20192 min read
17 Nov 2019: Birding Bishoftu / Debre Zeit
Ethiopia is certainly one of the primary birding locations in Africa, and a must-visit-bucket-list country on any serious birder’s...
Nov 17, 20193 min read
16 Nov 2019: Into Ethiopia
The question all humanity has to ask itself is: How can such visibly inspiring creatures, so spiritually and emotionally important, be...
Nov 16, 20192 min read
14-15 Nov 2019: Kigali and Environs
Hime must be the slowest, and safest, driver in Rwanda. It seemed as if every vehicle in Rwanda travelled faster than us,...
Nov 15, 20192 min read
10-13 Nov 2019: Nyungwe in the Rain
Whence and what art thou, execrable shape? John Milton The rain has given me time to write a few blogs, but that is the only positive...
Nov 13, 20192 min read
9 Nov 2019: Nyungwe – The Umuyove Trail
The Umuyove trail at the Uwinka Outlook centre was as disappointing as yesterday’s Kamiranzovu trail was thrilling and gratifying. At...
Nov 9, 20192 min read
8 Nov 2019: Nyungwe – The Kamiranzovu Trail
Hime and myself met up with Claude, a park ranger, at the Nyungwe National Park’s office, and then proceeded further into the park to the...
Nov 8, 20193 min read
6-7 Nov 2019: Heading to Rwanda
It happened fast. Over the weekend, while South Africa won the rugby world cup in Japan, my friend Anita manipulated my birding lists in...
Nov 7, 20192 min read
27 Sep 2019: Nyumba ya Mungu and Same
Nyumba ya Mungu means “House of God” and is a hydroelectric dam in the Kilimanjaro area of Tanzania. We birded a nearby dirt road that...
Sep 27, 20192 min read
26 Sep 2019: Arusha National Park
The Arusha National Park is a birding jewel where one does not have to pay the excessive park fees and face the hundreds of safari...
Sep 26, 20192 min read
25 Sep 2019: Lark Plains
“It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east....
Sep 25, 20192 min read
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