Does anyone on the internet know the protocol between photographing something and subsequently blogging it? Anyone? No? Good. In that case I’m going to resume my series of Africa blogs which are rapidly becoming a distant memory.
When you think of African wildlife you think of lions, elephants, leopards, hippos, giraffes, rhinos and a bunch of other big impressive animals (well, at least that’s what I thought about African wildlife). My experience was that the wildlife included all those awesome animals I’m dreamed about, but also included a few dark horses in the form of incredible birds (not literally dark horses – I suppose you could call a zebra a light and dark horse but that would be confusing).
When it comes to birds I’m not that interested in learning what it is I’m looking at, I’m more in the category of seeing something and saying “Wow! Look at that bird, it looks awesome” and then driving off to find some lions.
Anyway, over the course of a few weeks I managed to get some shots of a wide variety of birds which I present to you now. Enjoy!
Here’s a video I took of vultures devouring a wildebeest carcass, there are also some storks getting involved. Yeah, that’s right, STORKS. The animals entrusted to deliver new born babies into the world like to eat dead animals, surely not the most trustworthy couriers?
