Arrival for the 19 days of Kenyan birding and wildlife photography

Today you will arrive at Jomo Kenya International Airport, where you will be welcomed by our safari representative, who will tell you about the 10-day bird-watching safari excursion. After, you will drive to the hotel to check it, and if time allows, you will visit the Kenya National Museum, especially the Birding Gallery, to get insights into all the birds that you will be able to see, and you will further visit the Nairobi National Museum botanical gardens and the Nairobi National Park.

Some of the bird species that you can see here include African Harrier-Hawk, Red-faced and Singing Cisticolas, Spotted Mourning and Abyssinian Thrushes, Athis Short-toed Lark, Variable and Bronze Sunbirds, Three-banded Plover, Common Sandpiper, Holub's Golden Weaver, African Pied Wagtail, Shelley's and Yellow-necked Francolins, White-belied, Stout, Zitting, and Rufous-winged Cisticola, Rufus-napped Lark, Fisher's Sparrow-Lark, Kenya Rufous and Chestnut Sparrows You can also go ahead and film other animals, such as White and Black Rhinocerous, the smaller Thomson's and Grant's Gazelles, Impala, Eland, Africa's biggest antelope, Masai Giraffe, and Black-backed Jackle, before you return to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Bird watching and photography in Nairobi National Park

Today is yet another day in Nairobi National Park for the birdwatching and photography safari. There is a lot to see here, including Wattled Starlings, Lesser Honeyguide, Red-backed Scrub-Robin, Cape Robin-Chat, Eastern Paradise Whydah, White-winged Widowbirds, Red-billed Quelea, and Chin-spot Batis, among the itinerant species. Other birds to look for today include the African Water Rail, Black Crake, African Spoonbill, Spur-winged, Long-toed, Blacksmith Lapwings, Lesser Swamp Warbler, Highland Rush Warbler, intermediate and Great Egrets, African Jacana, Black Cuckoo-shrike, Spectacled, and Vitelline Masked Weavers, among others. You will continue with other interesting photographs of the environment.

Birding and Photography in Naivasha

Today, we shall wake up very early and have breakfast, and after, we shall drive to Lake Naivasha through the beautiful scenery of the high elevations, and here you will get the chance to take some good-looking photos. Since there are some wonderful grasslands, you will be able to see great species of birds, and among the bird species around Naivasha, expect to see the Black-backed Puffback, Cinnamon-chested Bee-eaters, White-headed Barbet, Golden-winged Sunbird, Hunter's Cisticola, Striped Crake, Striped Flufftail, the endemic Sharp's Longclaw, Quailfinch, Long-tailed (Euplectes progne delamerei), Jackson's Widowbirds, African Citril, Yellow-crowned Canary, and the Mountain Buzzard, among others. Later, you will go and sleep.

Birding and Photography in Masai Mara National Reserve

Today, early in the morning, you will head to the Masi Mara National Reserve for more birding and photography experience. Enjoy the scenic views of the Masai Mara Reserve and the Great Plateus, as well as the riftvalley escapments. Espect to see wonderful bird species such as the Karamoja Apalis, White-bellied Canary, African Goshawk, Pale White-eye, Grey-headed Silverbill, Northern Grey-headed Sparrow, White-necked Raven, Grey Kestrel, and Yellow-fronted Canary, among other species. We will enjoy this wonderful place.

Birding and photography in Masai Mara National Reserve (Mara Plains)

Today is one of the days that you will spend in the Masai Mara Plains. Expect to see a lot of birds during this day's tour in the Masai Mara National Reserve. There are different species of birds that you will encounter here, and these will include the Usambiro Barbet, Foxy Lark, Red-throated Tit, Hildebrandt's Starling, Swahili and Kenya Rufous Sparrows, Little Bee-eater, Bare-faced Go-away Bird, White-headed Barbet, Flappet and Rufous-naped Larks, Long-billed Pipit, Pale Wren-Warbler, Green-capped Eremomela, Senegal and Black-winged Plovers, White-tailed Larks, Red-capped Larks, Fischer's Sparrow-Larks, Rosy-breasted Longclaws, Stout and Croaking Cisticolas, Northern, Pied, and Isabelline Wheatears, African Quailfinch, Jackson's, Yellow-mantled, and Red-collared Widowbirds, Caspian Plovers, Banded Martin, and steppe eagles, among other species of birds.

Birding and photography safari in Kisumu

Today, after the best and most wonderful breakfast, we start the journey to Kisumu. However, before we transfer to Kisumu, we shall first do some of the birdwatching to enjoy and identify the bird species that we could have missed. Later, we start the journey as we enjoy the dark-billed Usambiro Barbet, which some experts consider to be conspecific to D'Arnold's Barbet, as well as the Southern Grosbeak Canary, Swahili Sparrow, Mountain Grey Woodpecker, and Abyssinian Scimitarbill, among others.

Birding and Photography Safari—Transfer to Kakamega Forest Reserve

Today is the day when you will go and observe the forest birds as we pass through the cool town of Kakamega. We shall utilize the chance to explore the mash birds around Lake Victoria before we head to Kakamega Forest, and here we might get a chance to see rimarily Papyrus canary and the Papyrus Yellow Warbler, White-winged Warbler, Black-headed Gonolek, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Winding and Carruther's Cisticolas, African Reed, Greater Swamp, and Highland Rush Warbler are all expected. The Eastern Plantain Eater, the Red-chested Sunbird, the Slender-billed, Golden-backed, Northern Brown-throated, and Black-headed Weavers are all examples of weavers. And after, we drive to Kakamega Forest Reserve, and this is extremely interesting.

Birding and photography safari in Kakamega Forest Reserve

As we do birding and photography here, please know that there are a variety of bird species that you will see here in the forest, and we will have a lot of time here to fully focus and enjoy the safari experiences. Here, make sure that you look out for birds such as Chapin's Flycatcher, Turner's Eremomela, Dusky-crested Flycatcher, Red-chested Owlet Bee-eater with a Blue Head, Joyful Greenbul, Grey-throated Barbet, Yellow-rumped Tinkerbirds, Ansorge's, Grey, Cabanis', and Yellow-whiskered Greenbuls, Kakamega, Eastern Mountain, Ansorge's, Grey, Cabanis', and Yellow-whiskered Greenbuls Chestnut, Jameson's, Chestnut and Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye, Kalat, Sharpe's Drongo, Buff-throated Apalis, Green Hylia, Olive Green Camaroptera, Orange-tufted and Olive-belied Sunbirds Greater Honeyguide, African Crowned Eagle, Mackinnon's Shrike, Vieillot's Weaver, Purple-throated Cuckoo-shrike, Bronze-throated Cuckoo-shrike, Sunbirds Green-headed, Green-throated, Green, Northern Double-collared, Olive, and Collared are all examples of green-headed birds. Other birds that can be seen here include Illadopsis montana, African Emerald, Red-chested, and Klaas' Cuckoos, Western Black-headed Oriole, African Green Pigeon, Tambourine Dove Crombec with white brows, Luhder's Bush-shrike, Stuhllman's Starling Black-billed, Brown-capped, and Black-necked Weavers, the pale-bellied Forest Flycatcher, the Red-headed Malimbe, the Brown-chested Alethe, the Red-tailed Bristlebill, the Golden-crowned, Cardinal, Brown-eared, and Buff-spotted Woodpecker, among others.

Birdwatching and photography safari transfer to Lake Baringo

Today, you will wake up early in the morning and have breakfast, and after breakfast, your guide and you will drive to Lake Baringo, where we shall have our next birding and photography trip. The safari will continue to Keiyo escarpment, where we shall be carefully looking for white-crested turacos, little rock thrushes, and white-billed buffalo wrens before arriving at Tumbuli Resort. A visit inside the lodge in the afternoon should be ideal for the Black-throated Barbet, Northern Brownbul, Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird, and Red-faced Prinia, among other species, and later we drive to Lake Baringo.

Bird watching and Photography Safari in Lake Baringo

We shall enjoy the best safari experience on a boat cruise on Lake Bbaringo, and this will be the best time to explore several species of birds, which will include Brown-tailed Rock Chat, Chestnut Weavers, Acacia Tit, Northern Red-billed, African Grey, and Jackson's Hornbills. Shinning, Beautiful, Hunter's, Amethyst, Eastern Violet-backed Sunbirds, Mouse-colored Penduline Tit, Somali Tit, Pygmy Batis, Black Cuckoo-shrike, Madagascar Bee-eaters, African Swamphen, Allen's Gallinule, Little Bittern, Crimson-rumped Waxbill, White-faced Whistling Ducks, and the enormous Goliath Heron. Later, you will return to the lodge for the overnight stay.

Bird watching and photography safari in Lake Baringo-Transfer to Nyahururu

Today, after the health breakfast, we shall go to another destination, which will be Nyahururu, which is also known as the prominent destination, and this is extremely wonderful for the birders. After reaching the Nyahurur, we shall immediately go for a walk in the Marmanet forest in search of the Red-fronted Parrot, Hartlaub's Turaco, African Hill babbler, Cinnamon Bracken warbler, Mustached Tinkerbird, and Abyssinian Crimsonwing, among other birds.

Bird watching and photography safari in Nyahuru-Transfer to Samburu

Here in the morning, we shall start the journey, and we will move to Samburu National Reserve. On the way to Sambure, you will look out for the Beastufil Jackson's Widowbird. And if you have enough time, then you will go to Nanyuki town for lunch. Later, we go birding at buffalo springs, looking for Golden Pipit, Somali Courser, Chestnut-headed Sparrow-lark, Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse, Somali Bee-eater, and Black-bellied Sunbird, among other things.

Birdwatching and Photography in Buffalo Springs Reserve

Today you will wake up and have the best breakfast, and you will spend the whole day birding in the buffalo's springs reserve. Here you will enjoy different species of birds, and these, among others, include Ashy Cisticola and Pale Prinia. Among these are the pink-breasted lark, black-capped social weaver, scissor-tailed kite, grey-headed silverbill, pygmy batis, yellow-vented Eremomela, bare-eyed thrush, and golden palm weaver. You will later go to the lodge for the overnight stay.

Birdwatching and Photography in Samburu National Reserve

Enjoy the best breakfast in the morning and drive through; later, enter the reserve where you can enjoy the birdwatching experience. Here you will enter the reserve through the main archers post gate and drive through the park only to see different species of birds, including the buff-crested bustard, mouse-colored penduline-tit, the elusive stone partridge, straw-tailed whydah, steel blue whydah, rosy-patched bushshrike, magpie, Fischer's, and golden-breasted starlings, among other species of birds that are found within this area.

Birdwatching and photography in Nyeri for birding and photography in the Aberdare Ranges

Here there are different species of birds that you will enjoy, and some of these birds, among others, include the Orange Ground Thrush, Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo, Red-chested Owlet, and Abbott's Starling, which has received little attention. Kinangop Grasslands are located west of the Aberdares on a plateau. Sharpe's longclaw, one of Kenya's national endemics, is found primarily in the Kinangop grasslands and among several other species of birds, which is extremely wonderful and interesting.

Birdwatching and photography safari to the Aberdare Ranges

Today we spent another day doing the best birdwatching in the Aberdare Ranges. Several species, including the Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo, Red-chested Owlet, and Abbott's Starling, have again received little attention. Kinangop Grasslands are located west of the Aberdares on a plateau. Sharpe's longclaw, one of Kenya's national endemics, is found primarily in the Kinangop grasslands and among several other species of birds, which is extremely wonderful and interesting. Visitors can also enjoy the photography of African Lions, Leopards, Baboons, Black-and-White Colobus Monkeys, and Sykes Monkeys, among the other animals. There have been sightings of the elusive Golden Cat and the Bongo Antelope, both of which are known to live in the bamboo forest. All these offer the best birding and photography safaris, which are interesting and wonderful.

Birding and Photography in Aberdare Ranges

Today in the morning, we shall wake up, have breakfast, and later head for the birdwatching experience to gather and look out for different species of birds, including Barred Long-tailed Cuckoos, Rufous-breasted Sparrow-hawks, Ruppell's Robin-chats, White-tailed-crested Flycatchers, Abyssinian Crimsonwings, Kand't Waxbills, and other birds along the road before stopping for lunch and rest. We will bird around for other birds in the late afternoon, and at dark, we will look for the Olive Ibis and call out the montane nightjar before retiring to bed.

Transfer to Nairobi in preparation for departure

Wake up in the morning and start to look for the birds watching in the bush as we look for the last touch of the bird species that may have been overlooked. After that, you will drive to Nairobi and later fly back home.