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So I had plans for different pictures this morning and then I saw this entry…..and….well…are you awake?
Happy Monday folks, let’s hope for some kind of good result from the NK-USA summit while we can (i.e., before Trump -pthui!- fucks or changes shit up)!
Today, pictures from valued commenter Albatrossity.
More Africa pics. These are from Ngorongoro Crater, which is also a national park/conservation area west of Arusha. The rim of the crater is 2500 ft about the floor of the crater, so you get some amazing scenic opportunities as well as wildlife photo opportunities!
Bull elephant meandering in the crater
Taken on 2018-05-17
Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
That blue in the background is the crater wall, rising steeply up from the level floor of the crater.
Black rhino mom and calf
Taken on 2018-05-18
Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
The park officials will not comment on the exact number of rhinos in the crater, due to concerns about poaching. We saw 4 total in our day and a half in the area
The Three Stooges. The one on the right seems particularly excitable…
Taken on 2018-05-17
Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
Herds of zebras were abundant in the crater, and they are fun to photograph
Kori Bustards
Taken on 2018-05-17
Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
The world’s heaviest flying bird. Although we didn’t see them fly, we did find lots of these guys in the crater and later in the Serengeti
View of the crater from the rim
Taken on 2018-05-16
Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
It was a foggy afternoon when we arrived at the crater rim, but we got a few glimpses into the interior from the rim road
Lesser Masked Weaver, weaving a nest
Taken on 2018-05-17
Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
Most of the weaver finches were done nesting by the time we visited, but these guys were busy constructing nests and making noise.
Superb Starling
Taken on 2018-05-17
Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
This is the ubiquitous “trash bird” of east Africa. I only wish our starlings were half as pretty!
Thank you so much Albatrossity, do send us more when you can.
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realbtl
Very nice, thanks for the pix.
rikyrah
Wow, those were beautiful ?
Thank you ?
OzarkHillbilly
Too bad you got Moe, Larry, and Shemp. Curly was funnier.
Lapassionara
Wonderful! Thanks
raven
Wow!
arrieve
They’re all wonderful — I am in awe of the way you manage to capture birds — but I especially love that photo from the rim of the crater. Just wow.
Schlemazel
What a great trip, thanks for sharing with us.
Baud
I wanna go.
debbie
@arrieve:
Seconded. Before reading (duh), I was trying to figure out what kind of clouds looked like that.
JeanneT
Wow! Like an old travel adventure story about a secret paradise.
satby
@Baud: INORITE?
Beautiful pictures Albatrossity, thank you! Loved them all, but your bird pix are always National Geographic worthy.
Tazj
Thank you for the beautiful pictures.
Elizabelle
Love your photos, Albatrossity. All of them, although the first, with the crater wall in background — and it takes a while to figure that out even after you’ve told us. And the zebras … and all of them …
You had a pretty good mid-May! Thank you for sharing it with us.
Major Major Major Major
These are great–thanks! That first one is crazy.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Great shots.
MomSense
The sky in that first pic. Wowza. I don’t know how you manage to capture birds so beautifully.
I really want to go.
No Drought No More
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Dean is wrong. ROT. Russia Owns Trump, and the damage the ignoramus and the entire republican party is inflicting on America is being done intentionally.
Why any American extends the slightest benefit of any political doubt to either Trump or his party of Rule or Ruin is something I find inexplicable.
Mr. Prosser
Your first photo is wonderful. Do Superb Starlings fly in those murmuration clouds? Definitely better looking than ours.
pat
I love your bird photos!
stinger
Gorgeous photos, and they led me to google the crater — what a fascinating place with a 3-million year history! Thanks so much!
J R in WV
Just wow, that all. Wow!
Keep up the good work Albatrossity. Amazing place, the natural history is sad, but the views are Out of Africa.