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Blue Heron
Blue Heron
Blue Heron sitting on a tree at our lunch site
Heron, leaving our lunch spot
Blue Heron
Blue Heron
Still flying
Our host fed the bush babies bananas every night. Unfortunatley it was well passed sundown and almost dark. Not good camera opportunities.
B&B in Arusha on a private game reserve
Zebras and antelope grazing. Marsh, then treed area, then crater wall
Tanzania Crested Crane
Tanzania Crested Crane
The Crested Crane spends a lot of time rooting around in the grass looking for seeds
When the Crested Crane looks the other way, it's camouflaged as a dandelion
Tanzanian Crested Crane
Crested or Crowned Crane
Crested Crane - how can you take this bird seriously?
Eland
Elephant, we didn't get too close to very many in the crater
Flamingo
Flame Vine
More Gazelles at the Polo Club
Gazelles on the polo pitch
Gazelle on the polo pitch
Grants Gazelle - wicked horns
Grants Gazelle - wicked horns
Grants Gazelle
Hippos are vegetarian so the hyena is mostly safe, the hippos are too big for the hyena to attack
Hippos sleeping through midday
Not all of them were sleeping on the grass
Mom swimming with baby
Spotted Hyena. Be happy!
This Thomsons Gazelle knows it's much faster than the Spotted Hyena
Spotted hyena
Golden Jackal
Golden Jackal
Golden Jackal
Jackal looking for breakfast
Kori Bustard. They let us get closer in the crater than other places.
Kori Bustard in the crater
Kudu in the game reserve - Arusha
Lioness decides to use the shade of a safari truck
and goes to sleep
The truck carefully backs off, leaving the lioness in the sun
Male Ostrich
The Ostrich got up to chase the Hyena. No one trusts Hyenas
Don't think of this as a directive, more a philosophy. You will have fewer troubles in your life.
Gazelle on the polo field of the local club. the horse safari was meeting us there!
Polo Club on the private estate and game reserve we were staying at
At the Ngorongoro Crater closed trucks are used. The pop-top makes it easy to get good photos.
Superb Starling
Superb Starling
'Superb Starling'
Sunset from the dinner table
Thomsons Gazelle
Thomsons Gazelle
Thomsons Gazelle
Thomsons Gazelle getting some serious air
What goes up must come down. Thomsons Gazelle.
Warthog with impressive whiskers.
Grazing on the plain
Water buffalo
Water buffalo. gazelles, zebra, wildebeest
Wildebeest
Cattle Egrets also hang out with Wildebeest
Zebras at the watering hole
Zebras facing the hyena because nobody trusts a hyena!
Once they saw he was only after water they went back to grazing
Zebra on horseback
Zebra having a roll in the dirt
Zebra in camp
