Bronze Mannikins

Bronze Mannikins
and Village Indigobirds, small birds typical of open savanna,bush and forest
clearings, they are granivorous, feeding mainly on grass seeds,Indigo bird is a
parasitic brooder.

Red Elephants Of Tsavo

Elephant Trunk
An elephant’s trunk is not only long; it is packed with five times more smell receptors than humans. Research has found that  African elephants have the greatest sense of smell among mammals. This is the Elephants nose; they have an amazing sense of smell. However the trunk is much more than just a nose it contains about 100,000 different muscles units but six major muscle groups, it can grow to 2 meters long and weighs up to 140 kgs. This long nose is used not only for smelling, but also to breathe with, siphoning water to allow them to squirt it into their mouth to drink, dushing themselves, and exploring things with. Also, a very important function is eating with it, they can pull down branches with them but also very delicate movements like picking a berry. They also use them to great and touch each other. It is like a human hand they even have two fingerlike features on the end of their trunk that they can use to grab small items. Elephants also use their trunks to help lift or nudge babies over an obstacle or rescue an elephant stuck in the mud

Elephants from a Mudbath

Elephants
run mud on themselves to provide protection from the suns heat Elephants
have three distinctly different forms of bathing; in water, mud and dust. All
forms are also a way for them to socialize, whether at a mud wallow or a
watering hole, where they interact with each other and even spray each other.

A Complete Wilderness- Meru National Park

Meru National Park covers an area of 870 kilometers square; it is one of the most famous known parks of Kenya, located in a part of a vast expanse of savanna in the basin of the Tana River on the relatively rainy eastern side of Mount Kenya. Meru National Park has three bordering parks and reserves. Bisanadi National Reserve forms the continuation of the park to the east, while on the other side of the Tana River, to the south, lies North Kitui National Reserve and the much bigger Kora National Park. These three wildlife areas are not yet easily accessed. Meru National Park gets the most of its waters from Nyambene Hills, the park gets progressively drier as you head southeast towards the Tana River, where the altitude averages around 300m and temperatures are correspondingly higher, Because of the many south-east-flowing Rivers, much of the park feels like an assortment of long islands sandwiched between the rivers, with park roads gyrating back and forth overcrossing points

Main Gate

Evening Camp fire

@ camp fire in the evening

Sunrise at the Campsite

Sunrise

Sunrise at the Campsite

Chestnut Weavers breeding

Reticulated giraffes on a march

Pitta's Grave

River Tana

Tana River

Zebras and Oryx

Eurasian Roller- a migrant from Europe

Elephants feeding