Owl's Well That Ends Well
By the time July rolled around, I was realizing that I had only a month left in Ethiopia, and was trying to figure out ways to maximize my time there. After looking at my schedule, it turned out that I had time to revisit at least one spot I'd been to before, and it wasn't too difficult to decide on Awash National Park. My first visit was excellent, but there were still many birds found there that I didn't see, and it was on the whole an enjoyable experience I wanted to repeat. Even better, this time I had company: my friends Lill, Christina, and Erin (all doing work in Ethiopia over the summer like me) wanted to come along to get a break from Addis Ababa and the cold weather. As always, we left Addis early in the morning and headed down into the Rift Valley, once again with Mesfin driving us. The plan was initially to head straight to Awash without any long stops, but as we were heading past Lake Basaka, the mysteriously expanding saltwater lake, I spotted a pair...