Just getting there, half way from Arba Minch to Konso, I had great sightings, my first Bruce's green pigeon. I was sooooo happy.. it was a bird I was really longing to see. Beautiful colours, maaaan, so nice!!! On the same acacia even a Scops owl was peering at us...
We spent the next few days up and down from Konso to Dimeka, from Turmi to Omorate, from Jinka to the Mago NP.
The landscape varies from thick scrubland to open acacia woodland to open plains, all quite arid and dusty.
Birds are all over and actually quite relaxed, the viewing is nice and lot of lifers were on the way.
The first one was Black headed plover and then sooo many more, we looked a lot for Abyssinian roller and eventually we found it, an obvious flash of red in a distant fig tree revealed itself through the binos as a marvelous Double toothed barbet and again Lichtenstein sand grouse, Black throated barbet, the easily overlooked White billed buffalo weaver....
There were so many birds around that it was hard for me not to stop every ten meters, we even saw Vulturine guineafowl many times and Pigmy falcons and Abyssinian black weathear, again the White rumped babbler etc...
Safi sana
I almost forgot something, probably because is not about birding.
WE HAD AN AWESOME SIGHTING OF A BIG MALE LEOPARD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD IN MAGO NP!!!!!!!!
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