Birding in Kenya was great.  The whole photographic safari experience was well worth the substantial price tag.  Superstition abounds in every human culture.  The Masai feel that seeing a Verreaux's eagel owl is a bad omen, the harbinger of death.  It doesn't show up well here, but their eyelids are pink!  Other than that, they remind me of our own great horned owls, and they are in the same genus, Bubo.  This pair was in a tree near a rock outcropping where a female leopard was supposed to have a den with cubs.  We never got a chance to see her, but we did see more than one leopard kill (usually impala) hanging from a tree.   Caching food in a tree keeps it out of the reach of hyenas and lions...usually.   A solitary leopard is no match for a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas.