This place is just amazing. Despite the heavy rainfall, wherever the safari bus went, there were birds in view, especially sitting on trackside bushes and rocks. It would have been impossible to stop and photograph them all as we would not have had the time to see the main attractions. That was to be the major frustration of this trip.

Anyway, I have finally completed the editing of the second day in the crater, day 4 of the trip, with many more photos in the 'Recent Additions' section of this website. However there are some that I thought were really worth featuring. One of the birds sat in a bush was this Speke's Weaver and the colours have not been enhanced - quite a striking little bird.

There were several Sacred Ibis's in the distance but we finally managed to get close enough to a small feeding flock that was soon joined by this one.

There are several 'watering holes' in the crater and at one of them where we stopped to eat our packed lunch there were several Rufous-tailed Weavers, in particular this one really giving off because we did not feed it quickly enough.

One very amusing (and lengthy) encounter was with this pair of Warthogs, taking ages to do what comes naturally.

Wildebeests were common and some herds had youngsters

so the herd was keeping a careful watch on the Spotted Hyena pack but they had obviously fed in the morning so were only interested in relaxing.

Thomson's Gazelles were as interested in us as we were in them, always ready to pose for a photo.

So another very successful day in the crater. Tomorrow is the last one before we move on but it will take me a time to edit all those photos so please do not hold your breath!!!!