Yellow Foot Tortoise

DAY 01:
You will board your night flight to Nairobi, Kenya to Europe

DAY 02: NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK
A smooth flight will see you arrive at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi at about 8:30 ET JKIA once the formalities of immigration, we collected our luggage and met our guides and good friends Joseph & Nico. Once out of the airport, we present our drivers who will skilfully load your luggage in the vehicles. With most of us still trying to get our binoculars from our hand luggage to a Black Snake Eagle flew over his chest and several Blackbird Starlings and Little Swift were spotted. No time to waste time we were directly in our great African safari. A short drive brought us to the entrance of Nairobi National Park and birding began. We are soon going to present some of the more common species such as Red Sparrow and Yellow-rumped Seedeater and that some members of the group found their first Masai giraffe toilets the rest of us looked around Lesser Striped and Red-rumped swallow. We'll all take our positions in our respective vehicles, the roofs will be raised in the park and we are going. Several Masai Giraffe dominated the bush and opened our first Coke's hartebeest and Masai Ostrich discussed. Big bands and Martins appeared groups over the years long tail began to be seen everywhere. Lappet-faced vulture, a huge set list of raptors stock and then a pair of White-bellied Bustards. Continue on as we notch up some more Cisticola with beautiful views of Stout and croaking. A group of Grant's gazelles did not pay attention to us while we were all close to beautiful views on a pair of short-tailed Larks. Our first yellow collar Spurfowl were seen near the runway and the northern groups of Pied babblers were noted. We worked our way along dusty roads to our place of picnic time. White-backed Vultures were easily visible as red-billed quelea Pipit and a long nose and a nice pair of starlings Hildebrandt showing their beautiful bright red eyes. Buzzards AUGAR soon be common were found, the Cape Buffalo were abundant and olive baboon has been viewed sitting in a tree to tree. Along the road we found two Waxbills Zebra Bronze Sunbird and a reasonable point of view Quail Finch, while our picnic stop we were treated to a good meal and several birds could be seen between bites. A man of Cardinal Quelea poses for us as did White-browed Scrub Robin and another yellow-necked Spurfowl. With our meal finished, we were on our way. A nearby pool we found Black Craker, a malachite kingfisher and the Golden Weaver Holub breeding males. In the bush, we watched a beautiful mustache African Warbler among a group of bronze, which also contained mannequins common Waxbills Crimson-rumped. On a distant tree a huge Grosbeak Weaver was found and we moved to an adult Bateleur Nice put in an appearance. Beside a bed of reeds, we have seen very close to gray-crowned cranes and a bit of Rush Warbler was attracted to show. Here on a small lake a darter of Africa was seen resting near black-crowned night herons and a short black head and Hadada herons have been spotted. Several Masai Giraffe gave us excellent views and close while watching them a few red beak Oxpeckers were found feeding on their backs. Continue through the park, we reached a grassy knoll where a pride of eight Lions sitting just twenty feet in front of us. After admiring these pussy cats "we proceed to find more Cape Buffalo, Thompson gazelle, and some huge Eland. Among the birds that have become too numerous to remember we found a Francolin Shelley, then a very good bird for the park, which was a red and yellow Barbet, the more we have had an excellent view of a perched the Pale is singing pigeons. On a tiny pond we found a Madagascar Pond Heron and a hairy gorgeou.