Ghana 2016
Female Patas Monkey nursing infant
Juvenile Lowe's Mona Monkey portrait
Buffon's Kob calf
Female Buffon's Kob with calf
Callithrix Monkey
Geoffroy's Black-and-White Colobus
Lowe's Mona Monkey portrait
Female Lowe's Mona Monkey with infant
Male Bushbuck
Female Olive Baboon with baby
Olive Baboon
Female Warthog portrait
Warthog piglet
Female Warthog portrait
Kintampo Rope Squirrel
White-shouldered Black Tit
West African Wattle-eye
Stone Partridges
Senegal Parrot
Senegal Coucal
Mangrove Sunbird
Pied Crows
Male Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
Red-throated Bee-eaters
Female Senegal Batis
Lavender Waxbills
Laughing Dove on nest
Hooded Vulture in flight
Green Hylia
Fraser's Forest Flycatcher on nest
African Pied Hornbill
Black-and-White Mannikins preening
Blue-breasted Kingfisher
Collared Pratincole
Fraser's Eagle Owl
Round-winged Orange Tip
Forest Caper White
Calypso Caper White
African Wood White
Citrus Swallowtail
Forest Mother-of-Pearl
Little Commodore
Common Savanna Bush Brown
Light Bush Brown
Male Broad-banded Green Swallowtail
Male Jodutta Glider
Female Western Fantasia
Blue Diadem
Dark Blue Pansy
Fashion Commodore
Gambia Nymph
Male Forest Glade Nymph
Dark Palm Forester
Male Common Yellow Glider
Ceres Forester
Purple-brown Hairstreak
Smoky Bean Cupid
Leptotes Blue
Plain Tiger
Angular Glider
Pale Babul Blue
Long-tailed Blue
Common Ginger White
Common False Head
Common Fairy Hairstreak
Common Pathfinder Skipper
Savanna Pathfinder Skipper
African Giant Skipper
Male Spotted Ciliate Blue
Spotted Ciliate Blue
Senegal Mabuya
Male Common Agama Lizard
Female Common Agama Lizard
West African Fiddler Crab
Male Lucia Widow
Male Western Bluewing
Male Giant Skimmer
Bold Skimmer
Female Lucia Widow
Male Lucia Widow
Ghana Red-banded Millipede
Ghanaian Tortoise Beetle
Ghanaian Longhorn Beetle
Ghanaian Tiger Beetle
Ghanaian Solitary Wasp
Our holiday in Ghana in March 2016 was organised for us by Ashanti African Tours, a local Ghana company. There was a strong focus on butterflies and our guide Andrew Amankwaa was an expert on Ghana’s butterfly fauna, as well as a good bird guide. After visiting a couple of sites near Accra we moved on to Kakum National Park which has a wonderful elevated walkway through the forest canopy. We then spent a couple of nights in a tent at a well organised campsite on the edge of Ankasa Forest Reserve in the far S.W. of Ghana close to its border with the Ivory Coast. A long drive north took us to a very different habitat in Mole National Park, where we stayed at the comfortable Mole Motel within the park, on the way visiting a site to see the rare and endangered Yellow-headed Picathartes. On the way back to Accra we visited a monkey sanctuary at Boebeng-Fiema and the Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary.