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Namibia/Botswana/Zambia 12

05 Friday Apr 2019

Posted by Musiewild in Countryside views, Travel, Wildlife

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Blue waxbill, giraffe, Grey go-away-bird, Impala, lanner falcon, Little bee-eater, Mahango National Park, Red lechwe, red-crested korhaan, Sable antelope, termite mound, Tsessebe, warthog, Wattled crane

Saturday afternoon, 2nd March. I was delighted to see as I got up from lunch to return to my room for a siesta, that there were several Sable antelopes on the opposite bank.

Such beautiful long horns

I took a few photos of and in my room.

Camera had difficulty in the darkish room. This was not the most luxurious of our lodges. Perhaps that was why I felt very much at my ease there.
More pillow embroidery

This is the lodge’s bar area.

And here is a Go-away-bird in the tree beside me as I waited there for us all to assemble for another drive in the Mahango National Park. Many had really been hoping to see a cheetah these last two days. For myself, I had seen – just – one before, but I had never seen a leopard. We had been told that still might see one of these later in the trip, but this was the last time we might see a cheetah.

I do love the mohican hairstyle.

We covered the same ground as we had in the morning but in very different light.

Oops, I failed to note the name of this bird.
Common impala (i.e. not Black-faced ones)
Inside of am old termite mound, giving just a hint of the amazing engineering which keeps the mound – which is mainly below ground – aerated and cool.
Little bee-eater
This morning’s three wattled cranes again – presumably
Red lechwe
Blue waxbill. It’s a very small bird.
Red-crested korhaan
Tsessebe
Warthogs. They must have toughened ‘knees’.
More Tsessebe, in evening light. (Being so near the equator, about 18° South, sundown is early, even in summer.)
Lanner falcon

Sadly, no cheetah.

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Namibia/Botswana/Zambia 2

18 Monday Mar 2019

Posted by Musiewild in Countryside views, Photography, Travel, Wildlife

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African Paradise Flycatcher, black-backed jackal, Blue crane, Crowned lapwing, Etosha National Park, flap-necked chamaeleon, giraffe, Gnu, Halali camp, Namibia, Pied crow, red hartebeest, red-crested korhaan, rhino, scrub hare, secretary bird, Sociable Weaver, Spotted thick-knee, Springbok, Wildebeest

Sunday 24th February, afternoon. This trip was timed to be the end of the ‘green season’, i.e. after the rains. Everything should have been lush, in fact making ground-living creatures more difficult to see, thus the particular interest of birders in this trip. But as were told right at the outset, the region had now suffered from seven years of drought, and areas that should have been marshy, and even flooded, were not. This was not only having an adverse effect on wildlife, but farmers were losing cattle, and entering into penury. For us however, shrinking waterholes were ideal for observing wildlife, not just birds. So after leaving our lunch spot…

… we visited a couple of waterholes, though many of the following pictures were taken from the roadside on the way to our first lodge within Etosha National Park.

African Paradise flycatcher, a small bird with (in the male) a very long tail.
Red-crested Korhaan (id. PM and BL)
Sociable Weaver nest. It’s huge, being the nest, as its name suggests, of many birds.
Pied crow
Common Wildebeest, aka Brindled Gnu
Blue cranes, in front of Springbok
Secretary bird, about the size of a (skinny) turkey – with long legs in breeches
Crowned lapwing
I was thrilled and surprised to see a black rhino (its name has nothing to do with its colour), given that I had only ever seen one before, and that at a great distance.
Spotted thick-knee, right by the side of the road, hoping its camouflage would protect it
Red (Leiwei) hartebeest
Secretary bird
Neil spotted this at the side of the road as we were driving along, and backed up for us to have a closer look. Another creature hoping its camouflage will protect it – a Scrub hare. It didn’t move for the five minutes we were beside it. Reminds me so much of Dürer’s 1502 painting.
A troop of Springbok crossed the road in front of us.
This Flap-neck Chamaeleon is green in the pictures you see in internet searches. But here it is crossing the road, so… It had a strange rocking movement, designed to put predators off. We were worried that it might be crushed on the road, but since vehicles were few and far between, this was unlikely.
Springbok almost as far as the eye can see.
Black-backed jackal
Our first giraffe, the Southern sub-species

After a long and tiring couple of days, we were very pleased to reached the Halali Restcamp, dine, and go to bed. Except that a few of them didn’t immediately, but walked to the nearby waterhole and saw lots of elephants. And apparently missed a leopard drinking there an hour later.

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