This afternoon we're heading off to Africa - Ethiopia first where we'll be joining a Tropical Birding tour lead by Christian Boix, and Keith Barnes, exploring the highlands and lowlands of Ethiopia for 3 weeks. The scenery promises to be fantastic, as do the birds, and we're hoping for charismatic mammals too such as Symian Wolf. Not sure how much internet coverage we'll get in some of these areas or how the laptop would stand up to the rough terrain, so we're not taking it with us on this leg but will be relying on internet cafes en route. Where possible we'll also be phoning in our bird results to our friends at TB who'll be able to post a quick update on our behalf. So do please bear with us! Please keep those emails coming, we love to hear from you and we'll reply just as soon as we're able. And do follow our progress on the website, we hope to give you news of our bird totals at least.Posted 1st Feb, en route to Manchester Airport, bird total still 1122