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Caracal
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Returned from Kenya today after visiting Masai Mara. Even on my fifth trip, the Mara remains captivating, always throwing up something new. In this trip we came across the
Caracal , a feline species, for the first time. The animal is larger than a cat but very elusive and difficult to see, but we were lucky to spot it on three days and could create few images of it.
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| A bow before His Majesty |
This time we had a lot of lion viewings, almost every day, a different pride, in a different setting, sunrise, sunset, in different behaviour- playing, eating, chasing zebras, mating and what they like to do most- sleeping.
The red buck below had a flight of his life when he saw six young lions coming down its way. Antelopes and deers are too fast for the lions.
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| Red buck |
Completed the big five with the lion, leopard, elephant, wild buffaloes and the not so common double horned black Rhino in the Mara.
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| Double horned black rhino |
But the Mara is not about the big five only, one can never miss the speedy cheetahs, though this time we could not see a cheetah racing for the kill, but did see cheetah mum with her cubs on a recent small kill.
The graceful giraffes span across the Mara plains. These three inquisitive giraffes were having a good look at us as we photographed them. With all wealth of mammal life in the Mara, one often forgets the rich and colourful bird life in the Mara. This pair of Bee eaters could not escape my camera as they perched on this branch.
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| Cinnamon chested Bee eaters |
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| Baboon with young |
While returning to camp one afternoon came across a bunch of Baboons against the low afternoon light. This young Baboon was having a free ride on his mother's back
During the six days in the Mara, I clicked around 3000 images, an affordable luxury with digital cameras. Have screened to a 100 of my choicest images and hope to put them up on my
website in a few days.
