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<\/a>Grey-backed Fiscal with its black patch across the eye and along the side of the neck down to its shoulder.<\/p>\n
The Grey-backed Fiscal has a grey crown, nape and mantle.<\/p>\n Yellow-billed Oxpeckers on the back of a Masai Giraffe.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the Serengeti the sense of abundance will envelope you. There is life everywhere you look. Each element is in a different state of ebb and flow, butall interwoven. In this abundance, diversity not numbers, takes on an altogether more important place in your awareness.\u201d<\/p>\n ~Mike Haworth<\/p>\n Male Yellow-throated Sandgrouse, head raised and alert. He must have heard something that concerned him.<\/p>\n Small flocks of these sandgrouse were foragingfor seedin the short grass.<\/p>\n Male White-bellied Bustard displaying for the benefit of his female.<\/p>\n Female White-bellied Bustard.<\/p>\n Grey-breasted Spurfowl, this species is localised to this part of Tanzania.<\/p>\n \u201cNature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organisation of the entire tapestry.\u201d~Richard P. Feynman<\/p>\n White-browed Coucal.<\/p>\n This Little Bee-eater had caught a bee and was busy wiping off the bee\u2019s sting against the branch.<\/p>\n \u201cIn nature, light creates the colour. In the picture, colour creates the light.\u201d<\/p>\n ~ Hans Hofmann<\/p>\n A pair of Little Bee-eaters hawking insects from this flimsy stem.<\/p>\n A lone Hottentot Teal on a pool of water dammed up against a road embankment.<\/p>\n I found it unusual that this Hottentot Teal was swimming alone in this pool of water. We normally see them in pairs. There were no other ducks around this pool of water.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.\u201d<\/p>\n ~Hal Borland<\/p>\n A male Ostrich, flushed with testosterone coursing through his veins.<\/p>\n A Malachite Kingfisher hunting in the pool of water below where we were watching a pride of lions.<\/p>\n A Capped Wheatear feeding on ants on this mound. This individual looked like a sub adult given its speckled breast band which will become black when an adult. The white supercilium and black bar on its tail feathers are diagnostic.<\/p>\n This character was very busy feeding on the resident ants around the anthill.<\/p>\n \u201cPetite, nimble and uniquely coloured, you are available to only the eye that seeks you. You are like little jewels scattered through the grasslands. Self sufficient but woven into the tapestryof the wild life on the plains.\u201d<\/p>\n ~Mike Haworth<\/p>\n A Temmnick\u2019s Courser out in the grass plains. This is one of three coursers found in this area, the other two are the Two-banded and Violet-tipped Coursers.<\/p>\n Wattled Lapwing with its brown body colouring and stripped throat markings.<\/p>\n The red frontal shield above its beak is diagnostic as both the white-crowned and Wattled lapwings have yellow facial wattles.<\/p>\n Spur-winged Lapwing with its distinctive black crown and nape and throat and white ear-coverts. It has a brown mantle and that distinctive red eye.<\/p>\n A Spur-winged Lapwing incubating her eggs alongside a large pool of water.<\/p>\n A pair of Sacred Ibis<\/p>\n One of a pair of Usambiro Barbets feeding on ants in an anthill.<\/p>\n Silverbird, a male in full breeding plumage, perched in front of a Rufous-tailed Weaver\u2019s nest.<\/p>\n \u201cOh little winged traveller from far away places. Rest here for the summer. You are welcome and free here. There is enough for all and we are graced by your presence. Only you will know when it is time to return to that far way place, leaving us with only memories.\u201d<\/p>\n ~Mike Haworth<\/p>\n A Caspian Plover stretching near where we found a family of Bat-eared Foxes.<\/p>\n A Caspian Plover, a migrant from far-way places. This plover breeds in western and central Asia and migrates southward to eastern and southern Africa to escape the northern winter.<\/p>\n A Fork-tailed Drongo, one of nature\u2019s great mimics.<\/p>\n A Hammerkop preparing to hunt from a rock in the Grumeti river. The river was teeming with crocodiles, so I am not sure who was going to turn out to be the hunter.<\/p>\n In front of the Grumeti Tented Camp on a branch overhanging the river. This Green-backed Heron was perch hunting right in front of us.<\/p>\n A Superb Starling close to our family of Cheetahs below Masira hill.<\/p>\n \u201cColour! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n ~ Paul Gauguin<\/p>\n These Superb Starlings feed on insects in the short grass on the Serengeti plains.<\/p>\n A Black-headed Heron, one of a group which was hunting frogs along the side of a large pool of water alongside the road.<\/p>\n Pale Flycatcher<\/p>\n \u201cScience cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.\u201d<\/p>\n ~Max Planck<\/p>\n A Kori Bustard minding its own business with a few buffalo bulls as onlookers.<\/p>\n A Kori Bustard foraging in the open plain.<\/p>\n \u201cWho designed you? What wonderful imagination therein. Blue eyes with white and black surrounds. A velvet-black forehead and a golden crown which shimmers in the sunlight as you walk. And splashes of scarlet in the most improbable places. Oh and when you dance together, it is magical.\u201d<\/p>\n ~Mike Haworth<\/p>\n Grey-crowned Crane.<\/p>\n We found scattered pairs of Grey-crowned Cranes on the Nyasiriro plain.<\/p>\n A Ruff from Russia. This was the second wader we found which was an early migrant.<\/p>\n \u201cI had an inheritance from my father,<\/p>\n It was the moon and the sun,<\/p>\n And though I roam all over the world,<\/p>\n The spending of it is never done.\u201d<\/p>\n ~Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n An African Spoonbill swishing its bill back and forth searching for food under the water.<\/p>\n A Black-winged Stilt leading a pair of foraging African Spoonbills.<\/p>\n A Black-winged Stilt plucking insects off the surface of the water.<\/p>\n A Woolly-necked Stork sunning itself next to the pool of water along the road.<\/p>\n A female Bennet\u2019s Woodpecker working on the entrance to her nest in a thorn tree above the lounge at the tented camp.<\/p>\n A male Cocqui Francolin.<\/p>\n A female Cocqui Francolin foraging in the plain near the lion pride.<\/p>\n A male Rufous-naped Lark displaying to females<\/p>\n A Rufous-naped Lark performing his display routine from an anthill to impress any passing females.<\/p>\n A lone Glossy Ibis foraging in the mud in the pool of water alongside the road.<\/p>\n The colour of the Glossy Ibis came alive with the right angle to the sun.<\/p>\n