3 February 2012.
After yesterday, today to the ricefields.
First, the bus passes through Serrekunda, the biggest city in Gambia. Pied crows sitting on billboards and buildings. Black (and/or yellow-billed?) kites and hooded vultures flying.
In a palm grove near the ricefields: blue-spotted wood dove.
Red-cheeked cordon-bleu on a field.
Spur-winged plover.
Cattle egret.
A whimbrel calls.
Squacco heron.
A striated heron. A western reef heron.
Long-tailed cormorant.
Green wood-hoopoe in a leafless tree top.
In a pond: African spoonbill, great egret, grey heron and western reef heron.
A bit further, a little bittern.
Painted snipe.
Purple heron.
Greenshank.
A black heron doing its umbrella thing.
Black crake.
A palmnut vulture flying.
Two Senegal parrots flying.
Beautiful heron. :)
Yes, that western reef heron was so beautiful that its beauty survived our comparatively simple camera and rather recent photography skills :)
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