Category: Guinea

Atlasville, 18 May 2010 I am back in South Africa after a sixth and final work trip to Guinea. As this was to be the last time in Guinea for several of us, we decided to arrange another visit to see the chimpanzees in the Bossou Forest. This time of course it would be dry …

Atlasville, 21 Feb 2010 I am back in South Africa after a fifth work trip to Guinea. If you have been wondering what that work entails here is a shot of one of the drill rigs in action and two of the general scenery taken from that drill site.     If I thought the …

Sutton, 21 Dec 2009 I returned to Guinea in mid-November for five weeks to find that the post-rainy season road clearing and grading was behind schedule and I would have to walk the roads to some of the sites I needed to get to. Hopefully that meant I might be able to photograph a few …

Atlasville, 18 Oct 2009 One doesn’t always get to make amends for a previous missed opportunity. However, on 22nd September, not 3km from where I saw my first ever Palm-nut Vulture, I got the chance to take a few shots of another (maybe even the same) Palm-nut Vulture circling low overhead as I made my way …

Atlasville, 18 Aug 2009 Arriving back in Guinea on 2nd July, I stayed overnight in Conakry, right on the coast, and picked up a couple of lifers with Western Reef Heron and Black Tern, while Hooded Vulture seemed very common in the urban area.     Arriving next morning at Gbenko airfield I added Little …

Sutton, 15 Jun 2009 Both the Zambian and DRC projects that I was working on concluded in office work without further field visits, but a new challenge has arisen. I will be working in the field in the West African country of Guinea for the next year. A great opportunity to see this greatly under-birded …