When preparing for a bird expedition, it is difficult not to mark any "favorites", some bird species that one would like to photograph. One of these yellow-marked ones in my species list for Kenya was the Golden pipit, a rather elusive individual that I had never even seen. It was absent during all our time in Samburu, but the last afternoon, on our way out of the park, we finally got a view of a typical male bird: golden yellow with a black bib. The species is said to be common in southern Somalia and it is locally not uncommon in East Africa. Samburu National Park is such a locality.