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Photo Forum / Photo Technique / Nature Photography / March 2006Wildlife images from Tanzania safari
Here are some images from our late-January trip to northern Tanzania. We are pretty happy with the lion, cheetah, elephant and bird shots in particular. Hope you enjoy them. http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/tanzania_2006/ Bill Bill & Carolyn - I have just come across your pictures here of Africa, and I then found a number of other galleries of photos by the two of you. Simply stunning pictures! I'm in awe... I see you like to travel for your photography, so I wanted to make a recommendation to you, if you haven't already considered it: Antarctica. I just took a trip to there in December, from Ushuaia in the southern tip of South America to the Palmer Peninsula of Antarctica. It was an *incredibly* beautiful and pristine place, with abundant opportunities for gorgeous photography. I would almost *pay* just to see what kind of pictures you would take there, given the quality of your other pictures that I have seen on the web. Consider a trip there - I guarantee you won't be disappointed. There are a number of tour operators that offer trips in all sorts of comfort levels - just google "Antarctica travel" for a start. > Here are some images from our late-January trip to northern Tanzania. > We are pretty happy with the lion, cheetah, elephant and bird shots in [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Bill > Here are some images from our late-January trip to northern Tanzania. > We are pretty happy with the lion, cheetah, elephant and bird shots in > particular. Hope you enjoy them. > > http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/tanzania_2006/ Great pix, Bill. Please post your link over on rec.travel.africa too, as the regulars there will enjoy your trip account as well as the photos. Great light: I think I must travel with my own dark cloud. :-( (Yes, obviously, we're always the first at the gate in the morning and begging to be let back in just as they've closed at night!) Your eagle is, as you suggested, a Long-crested Eagle, Lophaetus occipitalis, fka Long-crested Hawk-eagle. The Thick-knee is almost certainly a Water Thick-knee, Burhinus vermiculatus, fka Water Dikkop The Spurfowl is very puzzling - did you get any other pix of it? however, apparently they hybridise, so yours could be a juvenile or hybrid. Is Grey-breasted recorded for Manyara? Of course, there's always a first time. Slainte Liz > Please post your link over on rec.travel.africa too, as the regulars > there will enjoy your trip account as well as the photos. Ah, you beat me to it. Tx Slainte Liz >Liz writes ... > >Your eagle is, as you suggested, a Long-crested Eagle >The Thick-knee is almost certainly a Water Thick-knee Thanks for your help Liz, I'll update the web pages today or tomorrow ... >The Spurfowl is very puzzling - did you get any other pix of it? The driver seemed to know what it was but I didn't write it down ... here's another angle showing a bit more of the breast ... from the EXIF data this guy was only on the log for 22 seconds or 9 frames and never turned directly towards us so this is all I have to go on ... http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/tanzania_2006/images/jpegs/spur_fowl_T1509.jpg Have you ever been to the Serengeti in the rainy season? I have a chance to go back relatively cheaply in April to the Seronera area and maybe the crater, but I'm not sure how bad it gets during the "long rains". Could be great, could be a disaster :) Bill >>Liz writes ... >>The Spurfowl is very puzzling - did you get any other pix of it? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/tanzania_2006/images/jpegs/spur_fowl > _T1509.jpg OK, it's incredible how difficult it is to ID birds from even excellent pics. I'll post your pic to our local RSPB reserve manager, who's a Tanzanian, and see if he can shed any light on it. Might take a wee while for him to get back to me. > Have you ever been to the Serengeti in the rainy season? No - I'm a teacher so can only go in the Grey Month. > I have a chance to go back relatively cheaply in April to the Seronera > area and maybe the crater, but I'm not sure how bad it gets during the > "long rains". Could be great, could be a disaster :) You just never know. There's a drought on in north-east Kenya just now, they really need the rains. Although there's a rainy 'season', the rains don't always come to order. I think your 'could be great, could be a disaster' sums it up. Some people have said it only rains for four hours a day, and you can get fantastic clean light the rest of the day, and I've seen some surprisingly great pix taken of animals in the rain. Travelling could be curtailled, though, and you might not get your 'planned itinerary': flexibility of mindset is even more essential than it always is in Africa. The last time we were in Kenya, there was an unseasonal two hours of heavy rain and I was astonished at how difficult that made travelling on the 'black cotton' soil in the Mara: though that was in a 2WD minibus, and Tz companies more regularly seem to use 4WD LandCruisers. Also, round about Seronera the tracks are excellent, IIRC. Actually, D. is very keen to go during the rainy season to see 'green' vegetation and is always threatening to do it, whereas I've got another ten years to wait ... Slainte Liz > I'll post your pic to our local RSPB reserve manager, who's a > Tanzanian, and see if he can shed any light on it. Might take a wee > while for him to get back to me. Much longer than I thought - His auto-reply came straight back to say he's away until 24th Feb. Maybe someone will have given you a definite ID by then! Slainte Liz  SignatureVirtual Liz: http://www.v-liz.com Kenya; Tanzania; Namibia; India; Seychelles; Galapagos Photo blog of Make Povery History rally in Edinburgh 2 July 2005: http://www.v-liz.com/g8rally/protest.htm > Liz writes ... > >I'll post your pic to our local RSPB reserve manager, who's a >Tanzanian, and see if he can shed any light on it. I found a pdf that is supposedly a complete list of all the Tanzanian birds and there are only 3 spur-fowl on it, "Yellow-necked", "Red-necked" (both of which we photographed, and which are distinctly different from this guy) and "Grey-breasted", which is what I thought the driver called out when we photographed the bird in question, so I'll go with that ... >Some people have said it only rains for four hours a day ... We have to cross some non-culverted drainages on the way down the backside of Ngorongoro crater to get to the Serengeti and if these are high we'll be delayed I guess ... I'm sure four hours of rain would cause problems with some of these washes ... I think once we get there we'll be OK though. Bill >> Liz writes ... >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > "Red-necked" (both of which we photographed, and which are distinctly > different from this guy) Yes, they're pretty distinctivd. > and "Grey-breasted", which is what I thought the driver called out > when we photographed the bird in question, so I'll go with that ... Fair enough. The Tx guides are trained in bird recognition: they were actually having a class when we were there! >>Some people have said it only rains for four hours a day ... > We have to cross some non-culverted drainages on the way down the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > we'll be OK though. :-))) Safari njema Liz >>>Liz writes ... > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Tanzanian, and see if he can shed any light on it. Might take a wee > while for him to get back to me. Hi again Bill - Zul got back to me today, he's just back from Tanzania himself. He's pretty certain it's a Hildebrandt's Francolin. Slainte Liz SignatureVirtual Liz: http://www.v-liz.com Kenya; Tanzania; Namibia; India; Seychelles; Galapagos Photo blog of Make Povery History rally in Edinburgh 2 July 2005: http://www.v-liz.com/g8rally/protest.htm > Liz writes ... > >Zul got back to me today, he's just back from Tanzania himself. >He's pretty certain it's a Hildebrandt's Francolin Thanks Liz! I can see how the colors are similar to the male Francolin in my ID book but the spurs are quite a bit longer on the one I photographed compared to the book painting, which is why I thought it was a spur-fowl. We have photos of 73 different birds from Africa and have ID'ed most but can't figure this one out ... can you ID it or ask Zul for his thoughts? I *think* it's a shrike due to the bill and open perch (Lake Manyara, late Jan) but can't quite match it to any species in my bird book ... I prefer the Peterson-type ID guides since they point to a known mark that separates a species from others and the book I have doesn't do that ... http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/tanzania_2006/dunno.htm Bill >> Liz writes ... >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > photographed compared to the book painting, which is why I thought it > was a spur-fowl. That's what I thought. I don't think I've seen a francolin with such distinctive spurs. > We have photos of 73 different birds from Africa and have ID'ed most > but can't figure this one out ... can you ID it or ask Zul for his [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > doesn't do that ... > http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/tanzania_2006/dunno.htm I'm pretty sure it's either juv. Red-backed, Lanius collurio or juv. Isabelline/Red-tailed, Lanius isabellinus. However, I've not seen either species in East Africa (they visit in the northern winter) and I've only seen breeding adults in Europe, quite a few years ago. I'll look up BWP, but suspect it might show different sub-species. I'll also email Zul & see what he says. He's much more expert than I am! Slainte Liz SignatureVirtual Liz: http://www.v-liz.com Kenya; Tanzania; Namibia; India; Seychelles; Galapagos Photo blog of Make Povery History rally in Edinburgh 2 July 2005: http://www.v-liz.com/g8rally/protest.htm >> We have photos of 73 different birds from Africa and have ID'ed most >> but can't figure this one out ... can you ID it or ask Zul for his [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > I'm pretty sure it's either juv. Red-backed, Lanius collurio or juv. > Isabelline/Red-tailed, Lanius isabellinus. Zul emailed me back today, and says it's almost certainly one of these two, but he wouldn't like to stick out his neck and say which. He says he saw lots of both species in Feb. (He was leading a Naturetrek birding trip). He says the only other possibility is Red-becked, but it's not very likely in Jan. Looking forward to seeing your rainy season pix Safari njema, Liz He says the only other possibility is Red-becked, but ^ Whoops, 'backed'. Slainte Liz > Here are some images from our late-January trip to northern Tanzania. > We are pretty happy with the lion, cheetah, elephant and bird shots in [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Bill Impressive images Bill. Very impressive. > Here are some images from our late-January trip to northern Tanzania. > We are pretty happy with the lion, cheetah, elephant and bird shots in > particular. Hope you enjoy them. > > http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/tanzania_2006/ Wow, Bill, looks like a great trip! Certainly brings back the memories. Do make a visit to the Sonoita Basin while your memories of E. Africa are fresh. Amazingly similar. Even to the acacias! Sure beats hunting for non-existent wildflowers in the desert thin spring... Cheers -- Pete Tillman, who saw a blooming brittlebush in Black Cyn City TOD. |
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