Birds – Page 11 – Jennifer Sawicky Photography

May 12, 2017

2017-05-12: Feel Good Friday

For this Feel Good Friday post, a few images from my time in the Ishasha sector of the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. I hope you enjoy, and have a wonderful weekend ahead.

rufous naped lark — A rufous named lark singing to the rising sun.

DSC_5614-Edit — A pair of waterbuck in theQueen Elizabeth National Park.

DSC_5713-Edit — A Ugandan Kob calling out as the daylight began to fade.

A long crested eagle on the road between Ishasha and the Kazinga Channel.

untitled-3 — Ugandan Kob graze under threatening skies.

P1010320-Edit — A Ugandan Kob walks on charred earth from a recent fire for land clearing and maintenance.

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May 7, 2017

2017-05-07: The birds of Amboseli

One of the things that surprised me most about Amboseli was spending time watching the birds in the marsh. I had gone there expecting flat plains, lots of dust and lots of elephants, and I definitely got that, but the birds were an unexpected surprise. I guess you could say I didn’t do a ton of research on the area before going there, and perhaps that is a good thing, as then surprises await at every turn on the road.

Today I have a rather large selection of bird images, I hope you enjoy seeing some of the feathered beauties of Amboseli.

DSC_7882-Edit — A flock of flamingos in the distance.

DSC_7853-Edit — Saddle-billed stork, mama with 3 chicks.

DSC_7796-Edit — Flamingos – I wish I would have had the chance to see them up close!

DSC_7782-Edit — Juvenile Saddle-billed Stork

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April 23, 2017

2017-04-23: Amboseli in Black and White

There is just something about the Amboseli landscape that really appeals to me for monochrome images. The starkness of many of the areas, the elephants towering over the flat, seemingly endless plains.

Here is a selection of images from this beautiful place.

I hope you enjoy, and have a lovely day.

DSC_8916-Edit — As dusk approached, this lioness rounded up her cubs and was on the move.

DSC_8189-Edit — Egrets alongside an elephant, waiting for any insects the elephant stirs up.

DSC_7969-Edit — Elephants crossing the marsh, with the hills in the background.

DSC_7690-Edit — A zebra in the marsh along with herons, egrets and ibis.

DSC_7580-Edit — Wildebeest marching onwards.

DSC_7574-Edit — A lone wildebeest rests on the Amboseli plains.

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April 19, 2017

2017-04-19: Wordless Wednesday

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April 1, 2017

2017-04-01: WPC Dense

The WordPress prompt for this week is Dense. Rather than post a selfie (ha ha ha), here are some photos from East Africa that fit in with the theme.

DSC_9802-Edit — A crocodile ensures that a group of wildebeest crossing the Mara River stick very close together in the rush to get out of the water.

DSC_9757-Edit — A portion of the wildebeest herd tightly packed, waiting to cross the river.

A pod of hippos sunning themselves in a quieter spot along the Mara River.

DSC_9595-Edit — Wildebeest as far as the eye could see.

DSC_7819-Edit — A large group of flamingos take flight over the Amboseli Swamp.

DSC_6366-Edit — A chimpanzee swings through the lush vegetation of the Kibale Forest.

DSC_5996-Edit — A squacco heron almost disappears amongst the dense vegetation at the side of the Kazinga Channel.

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WPC: Dense

March 29, 2017

2017-03-29: Wordless Wednesday

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March 27, 2017

2017-03-27: Monochrome Monday

For Monochrome Monday this week, I decided to share some birds in black and white. I thought it was a nice way to emphasize the shapes amongst the environment. Enjoy, and wishing everyone a great week ahead.

P1010532-Edit — A brown snake age perched on Euphorbia near the Kazinga channel in Uganda.

DSC_9615-Edit — Marabou storks, one of the undertakers of the bush, hang around at the back of a herd of wildebeest in the Masai Mara. It won’t be long before their next meal.

DSC_8380-Edit — A group of ostrich jog through the Selenkay Conservancy in Kenya.

DSC_7835-Edit — A group of egrets in Amboseli, each with their own section of swamp to scour for tasty morsels.

DSC_7726-Edit — A blacksmith lapwing near the Amboseli swamps. I’ve seen these birds throughout my African travels, and they are always entertaining to watch.

DSC_7692-Edit — A grey heron perched in the Amboseli swamp.

DSC_7616-Edit — This little guy… I believe it is some type of plover, but as it is a juvenile, I can’t identify exactly which type.

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March 26, 2017

2017-03-26: WPC Green

The WordPress post prompt for this week is “It IS easy being green” and when I saw that, I immediately thought of Uganda. Many of the places I visited in Uganda were amazingly lush forested areas, with varying tones of green as far as the eye could see.

I hope you enjoy my selection of green images 🙂

A hamerkop fishing at the edge of the Kazinga Channel. If I had to guess, I’d say it caught a tilapia.

P1010483-Edit — A black and white colobus monkey eyes us from the treetops. My wonderful guide JP spotted this beauty while driving between Ishasha Wilderness Camp and the Mweya Lodge, overlooking the Kazinga Channel.

One of the pathways through the Kibale Forest, where I searched for chimpanzees.

DSC_6502-Edit — A young chimpanzee in the treetops, munching on the tiny fruits that were in abundance on that particular tree variety. Photographing the chimpanzees was even more challenging than the gorillas, and I came away with only a few shots I could use, but memories that will last a lifetime.

DSC_5414-Edit — A rather sizeable monitor lizard, steps from my tent door at the Ishasha Wilderness Camp. When I showed this photo to others in my group at lunch, one woman commented she was very glad it had not been outside her tent.

bwindi — A beautiful vista while heading into the Bwindi region. Terraced fields growing tea, coffee, bananas and an assortment of other fruits and vegetables.

DSC_4872-Edit — A L’hoests monkey seen from the deck at Buhoma Lodge in Bwindi. These monkeys were plentiful in the village, and gorged themselves on the avocados growing on the property.

DSC_4184-Edit — My first day in Bwindi, I took a village tour and we took a walk into the hills to visit a Batwa village (a pygmy community). I snapped this shot of the community fields below and plots up the opposite hillside… but mostly I think I was stopped to catch my breath as the walk was very steep and our guide kept a fairly vigorous pace!

DSC_5069-Edit — And last, but certainly not least, a gorilla sleeping amongst the leaves, in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.

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WPC: Green

March 21, 2017

2017-03-21: WPC Atop

The WordPress prompt for the week is Atop – photographs showing a vantage point of being above the subject. I hope you enjoy my selection of images from my travels.

DSC_8335-Edit — The expanse of the Amboseli National Park, and a dust-devil in the distance. Viewed from the Amboseli lookout point.

DSC_8306-Edit — Another view from the Amboseli lookout.

DSC_6634-Edit — Coming in to land at the airstrip in Selenkay.

DSC_6629-Edit — A view of a Maasai village from the air; somewhere on route to Porini’s Mara camp.

DSC_5539-Edit — Near the Ishasha Wilderness Camp, we found a lovely spot perched over the river valley, the perfect place to watch the sunrise.

DSC_5532-Edit — From our perch in Ishasha, not only did we watch the sunrise, but we also watched some hyena hassle a group of crowned cranes.

DSC_5520-Edit — Another day, and the start of another lovely sunrise in Ishasha.

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WPC Atop

March 12, 2017

2017-03-12: Kingfishers

Again this week I am replacing my “What I’ve seen this week” post with some photos from my time in Uganda. Basically, because all I have seen recently is snow… and not the nice to photograph, snow glistening from sunlit trees… the regular, driveway and road clogging, get out the snow blower and get on with the day kind of snow. Perhaps my desire for winter to end is a bit apparent!!! But anyways, on with today’s post.

During my time in Uganda, I took an afternoon boat trip along the Kazinga channel, where I saw more kingfishers in under 3 hours than I had seen in all my life before, combined. I’m not exaggerating to say there were hundreds of individuals there. There are nesting colonies along the river banks with dozens of birds at each site, and it just kept going and going.

Note, I meant to post this much earlier in the day, but I have been having nothing but issues with the WordPress “http error” when trying to upload images. My workaround was loading them to Google Drive, downloading to my mobile phone and uploading to media that way, but it certainly isn’t an efficient work around. Hopefully the “Happiness Engineers” will have some info as to how to resolve this issue.

Now, onto the pictures.