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Wild life

The joys of early rising

2 June 2018

9:00 AM

2 June 2018

9:00 AM

Laikipia

I wake at 4 a.m. these days. At that time you might hear a lion or a braying zebra, but the birds and bullfrogs are quiet under the constellations. False dawn comes an hour later with the liquid song of sandgrouse and the bustards cackling as they angle into the first light.

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