Uganda 2018
Neave's Banded Judy
Metalmark butterfly
Round-winged Orange Tip butterfly
Male Large Orange Tip
False Dotted Border
Mocker Swallowtail
Silver Ringlet
Dentate Bush Brown
African Veined White
Brown-veined White
Central Emperor Swallowtail
Soldier Pansy
Little Commodore
Golden Pansy
Blue Mother-of-Pearl
Blue-banded Forester
Guineafowl Butterfly
Savanna Sailer
Blue Diadem
Blue Sailer
Forest Leopard
African Mapwing
African Mapwing butterfly
Savanna Pathfinder Skipper
Spotted Ciliate Blue puddling
Natal Babul Blue
Common Zebra Blue
Common Fairy Hairstreak
African Grass Blue on flower
An 'Elf' Skipper
Flats Skipper
Savanna Elf
White-winged Tern
Yellow-billed Oxpecker on Buffalo
White-backed Vulture in flight
Male Weyns's Weaver
Water Thick-knee
Male Red-chested Sunbird
Ruppell's Starling
Ruwenzori Batis
Swamp Flycatcher
Male Variable Sunbird
Female Red-chested Sunbird
Male Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
Pied Kingfisher hovering
Pair of Pied Kingfishers
Pearl-spotted Owlet
Pair of Hamerkops
Hamerkop portrait
Lappet-faced Vulture
Long-crested Eagle
Palm-nut Vulture
Grey-headed Nigrita
Pair of Grey Crowned Cranes
Intermediate Egret in breeding plumage
Goliath Heron fishing
He briefly emerged from the undergrowth to pose at the side of the track.
Common Bulbul having a bath
One of a pair hawking for insects along a stream, seen from a road bridge.
Brown-backed Scrub Robin
Black-headed Gonolek
Black-bellied Bustard
African Fish Eagle
African Openbill
African Pygmy Kingfisher
Adult Bateleur
Female Black-and-white Casqued Hornbill
African Fish Eagle
Male African Finfoot
Female African Finfoot
Shoebill peering at us from behind a screen of ferns
Shoebill standing motionless waiting for prey
Shoebill in flight
Shoebill in flight
Shoebill in flight
Shoebill in flight
Shoebill standing at edge of water
Shoebill standing motionless
Shoebill observing us with suspicion
Shoebill walking through swamp
Warthog portrait
Female Warthog
Female Giant Forest Hog portrait
Giant Forest Hog females and baby
Vervet Monkey mum and baby
Male Olive Baboon
Ugandan Red Colobus monkeys
Ugandan Red Colobus monkeys
Red-tailed Monkey
Young Vervet Monkey
Grey-cheeked Mangabey sitting in tree
Male L'Hoest's Monkey
Eastern Black-and-White Colobus relaxing
Eastern Black-and-White Colobus monkey
Dwarf Mongoose mother and youngster
Female Rothschild's Giraffe
Hippos in mud
Hippos in mud
Hippopotamus
Common Zebra
Lone Bull Elephant
African Elephant portrait
Mother & baby African Elephant
African Elephants crossing the road
Lioness in tree
Lioness at ease
Lioness chilling out in a large tree.
Tree-climbing Lion portrait
Lion sleeping in tree
Lone Bull African Buffalo
Male Chimp in deep thought
Straw-coloured Fruit Bats roosting
Straw-coloured Fruit Bats roosting
African Buffalo portrait
African Buffaloes in river
Male Chimpanzee relaxing
Chimpanzee portrait
Chimpanzee in tree
Young Defassa Waterbuck
Topi
Topi portrait
Defassa Waterbuck calf
Male Defassa Waterbuck portrait
Defassa Waterbuck mother and calf
Female Bushbuck
Male Impala close up
Male Ugandan Kob
Mating Ugandan Kobs
Mating Ugandan Kobs
We organised this private trip with ‘Livingstone African Safaris’ having spoken to the owner of the company, Kalema Livingstone, at the British Bird Fair the previous August. Livingstone, as he prefers to be known, accompanied us as our personal guide throughout the trip. After visiting Mabamba Swamp at the edge of Lake Victoria near Entebbe to look for the Shoebill, we headed for Kibale National Park before travelling further west to Queen Elizabeth National Park. Our next destination was Bwindi Impenetrable Forest where we tracked down a few of the Albertine Rift endemics. Our final stop was at Lake Mburo National Park on our way back to Entebbe. Uganda has an impressive diversity of primates and one of the highlights was spending a couple of hours with a habituated group of chimps in Kibale National Park. The famous tree-climbing lions of Ishasha in the southern part of Queen Elizabeth National Park were well worth the time we spent searching for them.