Mousebird & Sunbird

Hallelujah! Mission accomplished indeed! I've been trying to photograph this particular Mousebird ever since I first laid my shocked and awed eyes on it!

Speckled Mousebird Colius striatus

Once again! But in vain, cause I'm still trying to catch a good shot where you can see this Sunbird's astonishing colours. But a silhouette for now should do.

Marico Sunbird Cinnyris mariquensis

Love & Light,

Ro

Namanga and No Mans Land

On Wednesday I had the pleasure of traveling to the Amboseli region in the Namanga District on the Tanzania border with VICDA (www.vicda.org) to research the possibility of ADV partnering the projects that are about to begin at the village of Oloolarroi. On 60 acres of land vocational training projects will start to offer Masaai youth the opportunity to learn skills in tailoring, IT, mechanics, agriculture, farming and agro-conservation (planting and tending of seedlings to make up for the damage their livestock will be doing, and also to replace the 60 acres of bush they will be destroying for these projects). In addition, VICDA will be drilling bore holes approximately 200 meters deep to access water which will benefit the local Masaai people who otherwise have to travel long ways to access water from a seasonal river that is fast drying up despite it being the rainy season right now.

A humbling experience eating nyama choma with the masaai of Oloolarroi and the masaai elders

Testing the density of the earth to determine whether drilling a bore hole for water is possible.

In No Mans Land, the area in between Kenya and Tanzania

Following photos not taken with permission, so please please please DO NOT copy or use any of them. Thanks.

Love,

R

It's a Bird's Life!

Superb Starling Lamprotornis superbus

Spectacled Weaver Plocues ocularis

Love,

R

Why I Love Spiders: Reason 242

Love,

R