A break from the UK winter.

Susan and I have just arrived back from a couple of weeks birding in West Africa where we enjoyed glorious unbroken sunshine and mid-thirties warmth. We booked our usual very nice quiet accommodation out in the countryside which is secure and well away from the main tourism hotels which are plagued by noise and harassment from ‘Bumsters’. The food at these lodges is of a very high standard and the staff are really friendly and have over time become friends of ours. Our other two friends and top-class bird guides who we have been using for a number of years, and who we are in regular contact with transported us every day in their own vehicles finding lovely birds out in the bush and forests.



Green Turaco coming for a drink.

We only birded in the morning up until about 13.00 because the heat in the afternoons, especially out in the bush is really debilitating. We instead spent this time at our lodge lounging by the small pool with a cold beer listening to the birds singing and the palm trees sighing in the warm breeze.
More blogs will follow in time illustrating the various birds we saw and tried to photograph on the trip.