As a lover of nature, with even the mildest interest in birds, you will definitely fall in love with Tanzania. It’s truly a superb destination with well over 1,100 bird species to look for. Of the ten endemic bird families known in Africa, eight can be found here. This safari has been carefully designed for those […]
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Rollers of Fortune : 2014 Redux
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Amikosik Lots of European bird-watchers grew up in towns. Many, like myself – I come from northwest England – lived near the grey Atlantic, in a decidedly cool corner of our “Great Peninsula”. Here for perhaps half our days, up to seven months of each impatient youthful year we suffered a suffocating Tupperware opaqueness overhead. A grey shield of cloud that far too […]
Each autumn, during the years of my retirement in the late seventies and early eighties of last century, was given over to worshipping the gods of migration. It was my personal homage to birds. To the birds and to the greatest wonder of my known world, VisMig, the migration of birds. I was fortunate in […]
September is the first of the happy months for many European birders living here in East Africa. October will get even better whilst late November is probably best overall. However the greatest volume of migrant passerines pours south across the region during early December, overnight and largely unseen. Nevertheless it is during September that the first wave of Palearctic passerines arrives […]
Fish Eagle Point, Tanga Unspoilt and unpretentious Fish Eagle Point is surely the best place along the coast of Northern Tanzania for some relaxed and undisturbed Naturalist Birding. It’s also the perfect place to get all that Masailand dust (and Tan-roads bumps) out of your system after a full-on motorised safari jolting about on Tanzania’s famous northern […]
Birding Safaris for Modern Naturalists across Northern Tanzania in December If you google “Birding Tanzania” into the glistening grid you’ll call-up a screed of high-order gen. Typically the first twenty hits will be paid-for placements that promise encounters with a panoply of ornithological riches. Riches for which East Africa is, or was, rightly famous. Upon more careful reading however, you’ll […]
Or whatever you want to call that near perfect euphoria? You know the score, the “M.M.MEGA” drill : a carefully nonchalant sms msg such as this one, from JW, Anabel Harries and young Frank Christopher on ‘Lark Plains’ to Neil Baker sent at 10.15 on Wednesday morning, March 8, 2006. “Fox Kestrel catching giant dung beetles […]
Arusha’s Biggest Day in Nature We will collect you at your hotel in Arusha, preferably by 0600, and drive to the southern gate of Arusha National Park to arrive by 0715. Bird fairly slowly from the vehicle through the forested central area of Arusha National Park to arrive at Momella gate by about 0900, where we will collect a […]
August in East Africa. Mid-winter in Arusha National Park, three degrees South and more than a mile above our warming oceans. So cool, at times it’s almost cold. We’re experiencing mornings that are chilly enough. Nippy, so that tough locals, and less-tough expats, would feel much better in a windproof fleece. If they had one. This past […]
Nearly 650 bird species have been recorded in an area only slightly wider than that covered by this green satellite photograph of Mount Meru in Northern Tanzania. The long axis of the photograph amounts to barely 30 km. And since June 2005 this area, within a radius of about 20 km from the summit ridge of Mount Meru, has become the core of my home […]
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