PHOTOS by NED KNOCKER:
Nairobi National Park is undoubtedly one of the best places to see servals
Here are pictures taken on the school run through the park ( the children were late, but we also saw a Martial eagle with a guinea fowl kill, herds of eland, zebra & buffalo & a brand new baby giraffe! A good excuse?)
By Will Knocker:
2 lionesses patrolling the swamp below Hyena Dam….they have not eaten…
A magnificent female lion, big & strong, but thin….
Here she comes….
Panting: it is hot; 11 am & she has just missed a warthog kill attempt….
View through the windscreen: why do lions generally completely ignore vehicles?
The second lioness, smaller & just healing from a shoulder wound, probably the result of an attack by a male
Poor old girl: she will not survive long: no teeth……..
Off they go (to cubs in the case of the big lioness?), tired & hungry……a lion’s life is not an easy one…..
By Will Knocker:
Mum I’m HUNGRY!
How about THIS , son?
Stuff it in Mum!
OK? Got it? (replies) nnnnnnnnngggg
Nnnnnnnng how do I swallownnng this?
Sadly couldn’t capture the last pic of a very stuffed Fiscal fledgeling with a tail sticking out of it’s beak, but if if he could speak,I’m sure it would have been MUM I FELL SICK!
By Will Knocker:
Yesterday was a super rhino day in NNP: this was the view from my breakfast room in the Silole Sanctuary on the edge of the Park.
Behind the giraffe ‘gardeners’: 4 browse rhinos on the ridge (Somali Ridge) behind…..
Then I found this lone bull a kilometer or so away……
And then this cow on the edge of the Sosian Valley….
And her calf…….
Truly awesome animals, threatened by human ignorance & greed.
By WILL KNOCKER:
Stretching for some juicy Zizyphus leaves….notice the browse line….
A head of the rest……
She can’t quite get there….
it’s all about height….
I’m going to lick this problem….
Lucky I’ve got a foot of tongue left…..
By Will Knocker:
The township of Kitengela lit up by the sun…..from the park.
Plains zebra; Ngong Hills behind.
A large mob of zebra were grazing the lush grass of the Empakasi floodplain.
The rangeland in the park is in excellent condition, with plenty of short-grass plain habitat & plenty of grass in reserve in the Acacia drepanalobium plains in the North of the Park, in what promises to be a dry year.
The Plain in the City.
Photos by DAVE McKELVIE:
In the current stormy weather: it is raining , but not enough, for example the Athi Dam is still low…..the park’s biffaloes are enjoying.
“mud mud glorious mud’
‘there’s nothing quite like it for cooling the blood’
4 browse rhinos in the Athi Basin…..
And 2 more on the hill above….
3 pairs of cows & their large calves, I think………
Pics by WILL KNOCKER:
I spent Easter at Kilima Kiu near Konza, at the south of the Athi Kapiti Ecosystem of which NNP is a part & drovev the Kapiti (properly Kaputiei) plains to get there…..
The Kaputiei Plains, looking south west…
Many cattle died in the drought of 2009 & sheep do well on the short grass plain (heavily grazed.) Ngong Hills in the bachground.
Tommies, looking west.
The brand new town of Kitengela: Kenya’s Brave New World…….
Looking over the Park: the Empakasi river in the Athi Basin
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