[Leica] Birds

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Douglas,

Thanks for looking.

A Bateleur is an eagle of the woodlands - its short tail makes it extremely
maneuverable and agile, flying at high speed through the trees.

A Secretary Bird is a large bird that roosts on treetops, and spends the
rest of the day marching around the grasslands looking for snakes, its
primary food. I saw a strange interlude once in Ndutu, when a Secretary
Bird and a Tawny Eagle joined hands to decimate a hare - and then left the
body and went their own separate ways without eating a morsel!

This one, and the next four after that (Hunt 1 to Hunt 5):

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/EAfrica/2013/Ndutu_20130307_07769-Edit.jpg.html

Cheers
Jayanand



On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 5:04 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Thanks for showing those, Jayanand. Definitely best seen large. I'd
> never seen a Bateleur before, and the Secretary birds look fascinating.
> Douglas
>
> On 14/10/2018 11:04, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> > As the migration happened early this year, the paucity of
> > raptors/scavengers was not unexpected at the Masai Mara, but there was,
> > surprisingly, fewer birds than I ever remember seeing. Here are some
> shots
> > of the ones that were there...
> >
> > Bateleur:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180910-714.jpg.html
> >
> > Brown Snake Eagle:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180914-7211.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180914-7227.jpg.html
> >
> > Saddle-billed Stork:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180913-6280.jpg.html
> >
> > Yellow-billed Stork:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180912-4948.jpg.html
> >
> > Egyptian Goose:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180912-5169.jpg.html
> >
> > White-bellied Bustard:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180912-4977.jpg.html
> >
> > Secretary Bird:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180913-6536.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180914-6897.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180914-6927.jpg.html
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kenya2018/Mara-20180913-6492.jpg.html
> >
> > Here is a link to the first one, if required:
> https://tinyurl.com/ycwo2j6s
> >
> > Please see LARGE
> >
> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome!
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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