they always make my day

Christmas festivities for me were in El Rehab for the second consecutive year. When entering the neighborhood I always make sure to walk along a certain back path that is almost guaranteed to have several hoopoes on it. And today I did see one in flight, from up close, and as always it made my day. They are spectacular birds.

Others told me today that they can be seen in Zamalek too, but mostly inside the Gezira Club, an expensive country club in the center of our island. It makes sense, because what they most need are low-cut lawns for feeding purposes, and the Gezira Club 9-hole golf course would be just the place for them to feed. I’m tempted to join just so that I can watch them with binoculars, even if I do nothing else out there. They are pretty much my favorite living creature at this point.