Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Serengeti and the Wildebeest Migration with Grandma Sue

We planned a pseudo-surprise trip for my mom to the Serengeti (we told her about a week before while I was in Rochester) in the hopes that we'd be able to find the wildebeest migration. 
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We had no idea that our camp would be right in the middle of it!  Since it is a migration, it's always a gamble as to where the animals will be at any time.  We were sooo lucky.  This is also the calving season, so we saw so many babies. 
 

The video has more pictures than just those below:



Serengeti Safari with Grandma Sue from Lisa Coyle on Vimeo.


NAABI HILL ( Animals)
  • Wildebeest (thousands)
  • Lion (22)
  • Cheetah (6)
  • Leopard
  • Warthog
  • Zebra
  • Hyena
  • Banded mongoose
  • Elephant
  • Giraffe
  • Ostrich
  • Kory Bustard
  • Secretary Bird
  • Thomson's gazelle
  • Grants gazelle
  • Impala
  • Golden jackal
  • Black backed jackal
  • Buffalo
  • Camel (we probably wouldn't normally add this because it falls more in the domesticated animal category with cows and goats, but the kids feel that Grandma should be able to count it)
  • Topi
  • Hartebeest
  • Eland
  • Field mouse
  • Hippo
  • Dung beetle
  • Baboon
  • Vervet monkey
  • Blue monkey
  • Hyrax
  • Birds, birds, more birds

Updated with actual photos:

Lion and Zebra Lovin’

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Brothers…so photogenic

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THE Migration.  Words, and even pictures, can’t describe the magnitude.  It was like this, but in every direction.

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Babies

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Dung Beetle

Kori Bustard (possibly the largest flying bird) – it’s as big as the Thomson’s gazelle

Twiga.  We even saw two giraffe fighting where they wrap their necks around each other and then head-butt each other.

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We saw lions in trees…several times

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Can you spot the leopard?

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Cheetah

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From camp we watched cheetah just walk into the wildebeest herd.  We thought we’d see some hunting action, but I think that the juvenile cheetah that was with his mother might have been “helping” a bit too much.  We also watched hyena saunter down from the hill behind us into the herd.  The hyena were very vocal. 

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We drove the long way home through Endolin.  Very green, sometimes muddy, but very pretty. 

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Black backed jackal with zebra   

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Sundowners Serengeti Style

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