Gambian birds, and other critters..

I spent the first two weeks of November in the Gambia, photographing mostly birds.

Due to the nature of the trip, MOST of the photography was done on a walk about, chance encounter basis. However as I got to know the area and its regular species better I did do some more in depth species specific work.

Seeing as this is my first post I'll start with a subject that will appeal to almost everyone - and that I covered in depth, the Senegal parrot.

You can see in these images that the parrots are feeding on the flowers of different species of plant. These trees were in arable land planted with ground nuts, or peanuts. Once the workers left the fields, the flock these individuals belonged to would descend on the fields and feed until dusk before roosting in nearby trees, this made photographing the birds a lot easier than it could have otherwise been.