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nomail@please.invalid (Johan W. Elzenga) wrote:
> Liz wrote:
>
>> The Mara will be pretty quiet in January: most of the game is in
>> Serengeti dropping calves about this time.
>
> That's a common misconception. Yes, the 'great migration' is in
> Tanzania, but the Mara also has lots of resident animals, so it never
> gets 'quiet'.
I was there in the first/second week of July in 1995 and it was so
almost totally devoid of animals that after two days we gave up and
went birding to some areas I'd researched in advance. Our guide was
very grateful we were birders: the other visitors were all bored and
the lack of animals was the big talk and complant in our camp.
The migration arrived in the Mara a few days after we left. It
certainly all happens *very* quickly: early one morning there were a
few wildbeest just south of Keekorok: after breakfast there were
thousands, all around!
I haven't been to Kenya in January, though.
Slainte
Liz
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