Nairobi National Park

A cow eland in the Nairobi National Park, an oasis for the largest antelope in the world. These animals are your writer’s particular favourite animals, large, beautiful, gentle & perfectly adapted to living in the vagaries of Africa’s savannah ecosystems, of which the NNP is a perfect example. Grazing 25% of their food in the [...]

Masai giraffe in the Nairobi National Park: one of the emblematic creatures of the African savannah…. A group of young giraffe in the park: giraffe are breeding well despite high mortality owing to the 35-40 lion currently in the park… Superbly adapted to browsing the treetops, giraffe are able to make use of browse far [...]

Rain has been falling in NNP since January & was particularly heavy over Easter…wet weather often means it is unusually clear & for a few minutes last week the mass of Mount Kenya (17,000 foot) was visible over the usual smog of the Industrial Area. On a VERY clear day one can also see Mt [...]

To complement yesterday all of the birding was from the Main Entrance keeping to the east and south. This is still the more interesting area to visit at present. I met up with Patrick Lhoir and his son Johann at the Main Entrance at 6.30am, and we proceeded to Ivory Burning Site. There was a [...]