Lunchtime Lifers.

We decided to take lunch at a waterhole that Modou Colley knew. The midday sun was blazing so i found a shaded spot and opened my tin off sardines and placed them in the fresh baked Loaf of bread i had bought at the previous village market. Such a simple lunch that turned into one of my most enjoyable lunches i have ever had.

 

The first visitor to get a drink was this Exclamatory Paradise Whydah

 

The very abundant Red-Billed Quelea kept dropping down at the water hole to drink.
 



 

This pair of Cut-Throat Finch was my third bonus sighting when they briefly perched on this dead tree.

 

The Cinnamon Bunting was the bird i really wanted to photograph just a shame i only got a record shot.

 

Roadside Raptors.

 This Brown Snake Eagle was perched on a roadside bush near the village of Patchang.

 

 

And then this Grasshopper Buzzard was my second roadside bush culprit as we drove along the north bank road this time in the village of Maka

 

 

Stinging Bee-eaters.





The telegraph wires along The Bund road, Gambia were alive with Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters.

The only downside to this site is the thick cloud of red sand that is whipped up by the pasing lorries.

     Once again my faithful hat and bandana helped save the day by covering my face and head from the stinging sand as it flew about.