11 March 2015
Today was
another day full of game spotting! And it's always a treat to see something
rare and today we got lucky to see four ground hornbills. Three adults and a
young. The adults were walking through the grass and foraging for food while
the young kept on begging for food from the adults.
Our second
highlight was at Nyamundwa Dam. Apart from seeing two old bull buffalos
lounging in the shallow waters and five hippos and a baby hippo feeding outside
(with the baby bouncing up and down next to mummy, clearly too young to eat
grass, sweeeeet) or the waterbirds, we were surprised by a massive herd of
buffalos that suddenly appeared out of the bush on the opposite side. They
drank their fill and the older ones went to lie in the shallow water for a bit
to cool down while the babies stayed on the shore. It seemed like a never
ending stream and before the last ones were at the water's edge, the first ones
already stood up and continued on their way.
Other animals
seen: giraffes, dwarf mongooses, banded mongooses, leopard tortoise, kudus
including beautiful kudu bulls, impalas, common grey duikers, multiple white
rhinos, an elephant herd as well as solitary elephant bulls, a leopard,
klipspringers, warthogs, zebras, blue wildebeests, tree squirrel, crocodile,
marsh terrapins, a male lion sleeping in the distance, waterbucks and a very
venomous boomslang.
New birds to
add to the list: apart from the ground hornbills we saw magpie shrikes, wooly
necked stork, lappet-faced vulture, white-headed vulture, white-backed vulture,
dark chanting goshawk, black crake, fish eagle, pied kingfisher, grey herons,
red breasted swallows, green woodhoopoe, swainson's spurfowl and a mocking
cliff-chat.
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