SPECIES LIST:
Mammals:
(12 January 2014)
Trout Tree Restaurant:
colobus monkey
tree hyrax
Laikipia drive to El Karama:
elephant
Grevy's zebra
Jackson's hartibeaste
oryx
generuk (standing on two legs to eat tall acacia leaves)
Common zebra
genet cat (dinner guest)
(13 January 2014)
El Karama:
Grant's gazelle
bush babies
spotted hyena
Cape buffalo
(14January 2014)
Ol Pejeta Conservancy:
impala
tomi
(15 January 2014)
El Karama:
am
dik dik
Grevy's Zebra
impala
Jackson's hartibeast
pm
cheetah (mother and subadult cub)
giraffe
Birds:
(12 January 2014)
Nyahururu:
Fan-tailed raven
El Karama:
Yellow-necked spurfowl
Hoopoe
(13 January 2014)
El Karama:
Vulturine guineafowl
Eastern pale chanting goshawk
White-browed coucal
Striped kingfischer
Eurasian roller
green wood-hoopoe
cardinal woodpecker
common drongo
rosy-patched bush-shrike
isabelline wheatear
rattling cisticola
grey-capped social weaver
(4 January 2014)
Ol Pejeta Conservancy:
N. shoveler
Lesser kestrel
El Karama:
Black-winged plover
White-bellied go-away-bird
(15 January 2014)
El Karama:
Black-shouldered kite
Brown parrot
Laughing dove
Mammals:
(12 January 2014)
Trout Tree Restaurant:
colobus monkey
tree hyrax
Laikipia drive to El Karama:
elephant
Grevy's zebra
Jackson's hartibeaste
oryx
generuk (standing on two legs to eat tall acacia leaves)
Common zebra
genet cat (dinner guest)
(13 January 2014)
El Karama:
Grant's gazelle
bush babies
spotted hyena
Cape buffalo
(14January 2014)
Ol Pejeta Conservancy:
impala
tomi
(15 January 2014)
El Karama:
am
dik dik
Grevy's Zebra
impala
Jackson's hartibeast
pm
cheetah (mother and subadult cub)
giraffe
Birds:
(12 January 2014)
Nyahururu:
Fan-tailed raven
El Karama:
Yellow-necked spurfowl
Hoopoe
(13 January 2014)
El Karama:
Vulturine guineafowl
Eastern pale chanting goshawk
White-browed coucal
Striped kingfischer
Eurasian roller
green wood-hoopoe
cardinal woodpecker
common drongo
rosy-patched bush-shrike
isabelline wheatear
rattling cisticola
grey-capped social weaver
(4 January 2014)
Ol Pejeta Conservancy:
N. shoveler
Lesser kestrel
El Karama:
Black-winged plover
White-bellied go-away-bird
(15 January 2014)
El Karama:
Black-shouldered kite
Brown parrot
Laughing dove
At El Karama Ecolodge the wildlife viewing is splendid and the setting is a perfect mix of romantic, sustainable and rustic.
If you want to hear lions roaring at night, watch a genet cat peak through the kitchen window at dinner, see gerenuk feeding on two legs, or drive to the neighbor's property (Ol Pejeta Conservancy) to feed Baraka (the blind rhino ambassador of Ol Pejeta) grass before watching fields of elephants in grasslands and nesting parrots in tall snags - then El Karama in Laikipia is the spot.
If you want to hear lions roaring at night, watch a genet cat peak through the kitchen window at dinner, see gerenuk feeding on two legs, or drive to the neighbor's property (Ol Pejeta Conservancy) to feed Baraka (the blind rhino ambassador of Ol Pejeta) grass before watching fields of elephants in grasslands and nesting parrots in tall snags - then El Karama in Laikipia is the spot.
One of the askari's at El Karama, Joseph who was armed with a rifle, was kind enough to take me out into the bush so I could hike through the tall grass and hear the wind blow through the whistling acacia trees in the shadow of Mount Kenya. I found a very old bleached white elephant femur bone, most likely not a victim of ivory poachers but dragged to El Karama by predators long ago. Joseph showed me a leopard's claw mark scars on the trunk of an acacia tree. The leopard was nowhere to be seen, but we did see oryx that went about their business and zebra that stared back at us, while rattling cisticolas broadcasted their territories with songs.
El Karama is a 14,000 acre ranch whose owners are highly concerned with their property's wildlife. This ranch not only increases the habitat in Laikipia for the region's unique wildlife, but also provides a relaxing environment with an educational platform for tourists.
El Karama is a 14,000 acre ranch whose owners are highly concerned with their property's wildlife. This ranch not only increases the habitat in Laikipia for the region's unique wildlife, but also provides a relaxing environment with an educational platform for tourists.