Kenya Maasai Mara Migration Best-of-Best Days 1-4

Kathy and John feeding the Rothchild Giraffes at the Nairobi Giraffe Center
The wood carved giraffes we bought and had shipped to our home in California
Kathy and Sebastian, the salesman
Karen Blixen (Out of Africa) farm house
Looking out towards the Ngong Hills
Kathy and our guide
Our first bush plane...yep, pretty small and warm/hot!!!
View from the plane as we traveled about an hour to the Maasai Mara
The runway where we landed!!
Paul our guide describing a small Acacia tree and its thorns
Small migration herds of wildebeest and zebras
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Maasai Giraffe
Thompson Gazelle
Our tent for 3 nights, very luxurious and private
View from our deck
The next morning , a large termite mound
Paul showing the termite runs up/down a tree
Black-backed Jackal
Plains (Burchell's) Zebra
Vervet Monkey
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Good view of the black stripes on the butts of Thompson Gazelles
Gorgeous elands
Topi
Two Jackals
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Young Leopard ~ 1-year old well camouflaged
Spotted Hyaena
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African Bush Elephant
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Sunset Day 1
Lilac Breasted Roller.....one of our favorites
Found the young leopard again the next morning
Warthog digging
Ruppell's Starling
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View for our breakfast. The Park burns certain areas to promote new grass growth to help provide for the migration
Breakfast on the savannah
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Rock Hyrax
Dwarf Mongoose
Our first male lion.....
A mating couple
They mate over 300 times in one week!!
Back down for a long nap!!
Another male but could not find his mate
Yellow-throated Longclaw
African Marsh Harrier with a hare in its talons
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Rainbow rock lizard
Sausage Tree
Cape Buffalo
Pretty old male
Warthog
Going for a river crossing...gulp!!
Female Steenbok
Yea....we found some of the migrating herds
Elands
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A lot of vultures eating a 1-2 day old wildebeest carcass
White-Backed Vulture
The brown wings are Ruppell's Griffon Vulture
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Marabou Stork
Bateleur Eagle
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Secretary bird
Iconic African scene
Red-headed Rock Agama
Hamerkop large nest
African Pied Wagtail
Iconic pic!!
Say "what's up?"
Lilac breasted roller
Steenbok
Temminck's Courser
Augur buzzard flying in front of giraffe
Southern African Giraffe
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Maybe a Magpie shrike??
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Some breakfast leaves:)))
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Red-necked Francolins
Verreaux's Eagle Owl
Sunset 2nd night, we had quite the lightning storm later that evening!!
Mom and juvenile zebra
Crowned Lapwing
Gray-backed Fiscal
Black wing Kite
Jumping Impala.....nice shot John-boy!!
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We found the medium to large migration herds....ODG!!!
Impala males at play
Look at how many animals!!
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Breakfast is served
Yummers
White-backed Vulture
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These wildebeest trains were amazing and somewhat mysterious behavior
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Cheetah and four cubs walking along a road
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Topi and a new born
A super long wildebeest marching train
A lioness
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Found the cheetahs again later in the day
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Leopard turtle
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~40 giraffes gather to mourn and show respect for a fallen comrade!
We called it a giraffe memorial
They also may be curious as to what happened???
What remains of the carcass
A rare sighting.....Paul in his 30 years guiding had never seen something like this
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Starlings
Our local cooks for the camp
Kitchen area
Local Maasai guard demonstrating how they would kill an Aardvark coming out of its tunnel
A good sense of humor as well!!
The 2nd Maasai guard that went on our walk
The staff saying goodbye at the fist camp early morning of the 4th day

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