A greater blue-eared starling holds a fence post at Solio, in Kenya's Laikipia, turned just far enough to put one orange eye on the lens. Blue-green runs the length of him: green across the wing coverts with their black tips, deeper blue through the breast, the dark ear patch reading almost black against it. We were heading out for the evening drive with the windows already down, and I expected him to lift as soon as the vehicle drew level. He held. I made a few frames as we came up on the post, and then he turned his head square to the glass and kept it there, close enough to fill the frame. Birds like this one are everywhere in the Laikipia woodland, which is part of what Solio keeps intact while it does its better-known work with black rhino.
