Spotted Thick-Knee.

Senegal Thick-knee is an extremely common bird in The Gambia it commonly frequents river banks, ponds and shorelines in general. The Spotted Thick-knee is different, it is a bigger bird which inhabits open woodland areas and is more difficult to find. Our guide Mas knew an area which he had checked out previously and there were about half a dozen of these lovely birds there.
We had to walk a few hundred yards into their typical habitat and finally we saw them, however, they were very spooky and didn’t like any approach at all, but after some effort and patience I managed to line up a couple of birds for a photograph, it wasn’t easy, but really worth the effort.
Beautiful birds!