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Namibia/Botswana/Zambia 11

03 Wednesday Apr 2019

Posted by Musiewild in Photography

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African fish-eagle, Baobab, Blue waxbill, Broad-billed roller, Burchell's glossy starling, Carmine bee-eater, Chacma baboon, Darter, dung beetle, grey hornbill, Jacobin cuckoo, Kalahari tented tortoise, kudu, Long-tailed starling, Mahango National Park, Mahangu Safari Lodge, Namibia, Nile crocodile, pearl-spotted owlet, purple-banded sunbird, Red lechwe, Red-billed spurfowl, roan antelope, Southern reedbuck, vervet monkey, warthog, Wattled crane

Saturday 2nd March. There was no wifi in our rooms at the Mahangu Lodge, only in the bar/dining area. And breakfast was not until 7 a.m. But I discovered that they served coffee from shortly after 6 a.m. there.

This morning, we went for a game drive in the Mahango Game Park. It was reasonably cool to begin with.

As I’ve said, there is elephant dung everywhere. Here are dung beetles making the most of the fact that a vehicle has already processed some.
Warthogs, youngster kneeling to feed.
Roan antelope
Warthog family
Seeing this just makes me long to be back there.
Kudu
Purple-banded sunbirds
Kalahari tented tortoise
Jacobin cuckoo
Pearl-spotted owlet
Grey hornbill
Our starling is beautiful when you really look at it. Africa’s starlings don’t need any study to show the same quality. Long-tailed starling.
Red-billed spurfowl
Burchell’s glossy starling
Broad-billed roller
Blue waxbill
Wattled cranes (‘uncommon resident’) – very far off
It was getting hot now. Paddling with these Southern reedbuck would have been very welcome!
Frustrating not to be able to capture the image of this vervet monkey more precisely, but…
… there were some of his companions across the way
African fish-eagle
Darters
Nile crocodile
Southern reedbuck
Red lechwe
Baobab tree
Chacma baboons
Carmine bee-eater

We had been out for four hours, and were ready for our lunch.

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Namibia/Botswana/Zambia 6

24 Sunday Mar 2019

Posted by Musiewild in Photography, Travel, Wildlife

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black-backed jackal, black-winged stilt, blacksmith lapwing, Blue crane, elephant, Etosha agama, European bee-eater, gemsbok, giraffe, hoopoe, Hyena, laughing dove, lilac-breasted roller, northern black korhaan, oryx, Ostrich, Pale chanting goshawk, pearl-spotted owlet, red-eyed bulbul, vulture, Wildebeest, zebra

After as early a breakfast as the hours of Mokuti Lodge would allow, we set off for the morning’s drive.

Very near the roadside and indignant at being disturbed.
Lilac-breasted roller. I seem to have taken a lot of photos of this species. They seem to be quite co-operative. And pretty.
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Risking the slight irritation of my birdy companions, I asked if we could stop for a photo of these palms, which we had seen the day before without stopping. My companions were in fact quite pleased, in the event, since …
… they spotted in one of them what we would note at the of the day as a white-backed vulture.
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Northern black korhaan. If I were to go by my bird book I would say it might be a White-quilled bustard but that is not on our checklist, and it has a different Latin name.
Blue crane
Black-winged stilt and very blurry ‘duck’. ?Teal?
We came across a lot of ostriches.
Many, many ostriches.
A male (black) and a female (brown)
To me they seem rather sinister when you can only see necks and legs
Strutting their stuff
Showing their irritation I think. We had hung around for a while.

We stopped for unexpected mid-morning hot drinks, prepared and served by our leaders.

Any stop provides an opportunity for looking out for birds.

African red-eyed bulbul

Someone said, rather patronisingly, that this bird was far too far off for me to be able to take with my small camera. Well, ya boo shucks! Pearl-spotted owl(et). Book says ‘appears dumpy, large-headed and short-tailed’. Yup!
Laughing dove. Soooo pretty!

And we continued on our way.

European bee-eater

How leader Neil managed as he was driving along to spot this motionless creature by the side of the road, so well camouflaged against its background, I couldn’t say. ‘Experience’, they said.

Etosha Agama (lizard)
Hoopoe
Pale chanting goshawk

We arrived at a waterhole, where we were to observe wildlife drama. Wildebeest and zebra were standing around, preparing to drink, but then along came an elephant troop.

A hyena sloped off.

Indeed, two elephant troops arrived – and merged.

To take over the pool entirely. I love the way giraffe’s heads show up against a treeline.
After drinking, mud baths are in order
A gemsbok/oryx arrived, but did not yet go near the pool.
Wildebeest hold back
As do giraffe. The bolder zebra were soon ‘discouraged’.
Two of which took it out on each other.
In due course the elephants did move off…
And the first to drink in the, by now very disturbed, waters were a black-backed jackal and a blacksmith lapwing.

It was time to return to the lodge for lunch and a siesta.

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Tanzania 8

11 Friday Mar 2016

Posted by Musiewild in Photography, Travel, Wildlife

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banded mongoose, blue-cheeked bee-eaters, Dik dik, elephant, grey heron, hadada ibis, Nubian Woodpecker, Olive baboon, pearl-spotted owlet, red-backed shrike, Tanzania, Tarangire National Park, Tarangire Safari Lodge, waterbuck, White-headed buffalo weaver

I took these photos before, during and after lunch that day, all at Tarangire Safari Lodge.

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Red-backed shrike

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After lunch homework. My room-mate, Sara, was a much more serious photographer than I

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Nubian woodpecker

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?Red-billed hornbill

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View from dining room

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Olive baboons at safari lodge

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White-headed buffalo weaver

When we went out in the afternoon, I didn’t add much to my stock of pictures – you may be glad to know.

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Dik dik

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I was the thrilled to be the one to spot this pearl-spotted owlet deep in the foliage. It is only 20 cm tall

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Nubian woodpecker

It was another lovely dawn the next day.

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Waterbuck

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?Common drongo

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The grass was so long, it was difficult to see the baby elephant

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Nubian woodpecker

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Blue-cheeked bee-eaters

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Hadada ibis

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Grey heron

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Banded Mongooses at breakfast stop

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Common waterbuck

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Olive baboons

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(Next: … a lost passport…)

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