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way2blue
Continuation of birdwatching outing in the Maasi Mara (this time with birds)…

Jonathan scouring the tree tops for birds.

Here’s one. But I don’t have any notes, so will depend on Albatrossity & other accomplished birders to identify it.

View of the marsh which hosts abundant birdlife.

Yellow billed storks fishing for long skinny fish (eels?). (I have a short video clip of one of them eating… )

No notes for this very cool bird. Albatrossity?

Banded mongoose sunning themselves on a log in the early morning. (Apologies again for the poor iPhone quality.)

Close-up of the mongoose.

I hadn’t realized it was my birthday the day before—until I found birthday greetings when checking email at dinner time. The staff surprised me tonight with a cake accompanied by a traditional Masi chant, dance & ‘jumping’ contest. Enchanting.
Benw
I love the sky in your first pic. Is it mongooses? Mongeese?
WaterGirl
What a great birthday, even belatedly! How cool is that?
Albatrossity
I think the white bird in the tree is another Yellow-billed Stork. Could be a White Stork (what is the date for this trip/picture?), but I can’t see enough of the bird to tell.
The long-tailed black birds are Ruppell’s Starling.
way2blue
@Albatrossity: This was last July. Starling—thanks.
Albatrossity
@way2blue: Probably not a White Stork in July; they should all be in Europe raising young storks at that time of year. Good bet would be Yellow-billed Stork
way2blue
@Albatrossity: There was another interesting bird in the marsh. Smaller, kind of rust colored with long red ‘toes’ that walked on top of the vegetable. I have video of them, but no decent photos…
Albatrossity
@way2blue: Maybe this guy,
TriassicSands
@Benw:
Mongooses is preferable, but mongeese is the kind of word that grows in popularity because of a similar word, i.e., goose and geese.