Wednesday 12th November 2025. Although the main focus of this African adventure is birds, there are many other forms of wildlife worthy of attention. Birding in the forest today was a little slow, some of the targets simply wouldn’t show, others afforded brief glimpses before merging back into the thick tangle of luxuriant growth. That’s…
Tuesday 11th November 2025. I’m sitting in the grounds of our lodge in the depths of the Kakamega Rainforest in western Kenya watching a female African Crowned Eagle tend its chick. The nest is placed high in an isolated tree that grows directly adjacent to what was the living quarters of the owners of the…
The Kakamega Rainforest in western Kenya, close to Lake Victoria and the Uganda border, represents the country’s only remaining remnant of what was once a belt of tropical forest sweeping across the African continent. It is home to a range of wildlife found nowhere else in the country, including an outlying population of the Blue-headed…
Thursday 6th November 2025. Abdullah is a man of 80 that has a close affinity with his local wildlife. He knows no English, why should he? But every day he is up at dawn searching the cypress grove for a special bird that he can show off to clients of tour operators, or indeed anyone…
We spent the month of November 2025 exploring parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Malawi in search of exotic birds and rare mammals, many of which are endemic to a particular area. The trip was arranged via Naturetrek and was a tailormade, wildlife focussed adventure that produced a wealth of wonderful encounters. Everything ran very smoothly,…