Queen Elizabeth National Park

At Queen Elizabeth National Park, we stayed at the lovely Mweya Lodge.
A big highlight of our stay there was an afternoon trip on the Kazinga Channel, which links Lake George with Lake Edward. This channel is a well known wildlife magnet, with many animals and birds coming down to the edge of the river, easily viewable - and photographable - from the boat.
The image, left, shows Hippos, White-fronted Cormorants, a Yellow-billed Stork and an Egyptian Goose.

We saw a number of African Fish Eagles, Haliaeetus vocifer, either singly or in pairs, in the trees at the side of the channel.

Back at Mweya Lodge, there were some mammals as well as birds in the lodge grounds, particularly a large group of Banded Mongoose, Mungo mungo, which has been the subject of a long-running research project.
They are colour-marked for individual recognition by the researchers, which makes photographing them more of a challenge, to keep the colour marking, particularly evident on the tiny babies, out of the photos.

These Mongooses are used to people, so are very approachable. In fact, when I was lying on the ground to take photos at eye level, some came right up to me to investigate, and one even climbed up onto my leg and walked up and over my back.