19 August 2015
On our last
morning we had time for a short drive before we had to exit the park. We saw
some new birds today, but unfortunately no new mammals. However seeing a white
rhino mother with a very young calf was very lovely. The calf was bouncing up
and down being curious about the cars while mum just grazed and didn't even
bother to look around.
Another
highlight was seeing a ground hornbill. As they are rare and endangered this
one wasn't helping much for saving the species as he was on his own. On the
recently burned and still smoldering landscape he was walking around trying to
find a barbecued snack. And he found something too as we suddenly saw him run
after something that had caught his interest, but it made him disappear behind
a bush.
Other
interesting sightings: kudus, many common grey duikers, more white rhinos,
buffalos, giraffes, impalas, zebras, warthog, tree squirrel, waterbuck, hippos,
hyena, water monitor and vervet monkeys (actually, those we saw driving down to
Nelspruit!).
And apart from
the ground hornbill the new birds were a Burchell's coucal, dark chanting
goshawks, and swainson's spurfowl.
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