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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

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

Good view of the black stripes on the butts of Thompson Gazelles

Gorgeous elands

Topi

Two Jackals

Young Leopard ~ 1-year old well camouflaged

Spotted Hyaena

African Bush Elephant

Sunset Day 1

Lilac Breasted Roller.....one of our favorites

Found the young leopard again the next morning

Warthog digging

Ruppell's Starling

View for our breakfast. The Park burns certain areas to promote new grass growth to help provide for the migration

Breakfast on the savannah

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

A lot of vultures eating a 1-2 day old wildebeest carcass

White-Backed Vulture

The brown wings are Ruppell's Griffon Vulture

Marabou Stork

Bateleur Eagle

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

Maybe a Magpie shrike??

Some breakfast leaves:)))

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!!

We found the medium to large migration herds....ODG!!!

Impala males at play

Look at how many animals!!

Breakfast is served

Yummers

White-backed Vulture

These wildebeest trains were amazing and somewhat mysterious behavior

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

Found the cheetahs again later in the day

Leopard turtle

~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

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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