11 November 2015
Today it was a
unique day of rare animal sightings!!!
We started of
with a black rhino, our first animal seen this morning when we started the
drive. Then we caught up with wild dogs which had just made a kill down in the
riverbed and came walking up to show us their bloody faces. A rare saddle-billed
stork was seen in the riverbed. And then we got rattled at by a honeybadger!
Which then fled when we didn't feel threatened, but were really excited. Five
sables were drinking in the river. And to top it all off we then saw my first
ever PANGOLIN!!! It just ambled along, and we even managed to take pictures (although
mine are a bit shaky from excitement...). I am lost for words, absolutely
speechless...
Other
interesting sightings: 3 lionesses with 4 youngsters, lots of elephant herds
with little babies, hyenas, a hippo out of the water, bushbucks, waterbucks, impalas,
nyalas, warthogs, zebras, lots of giraffes, beautiful kudu bulls, our first
crocodile sighting of this safari, vervet monkeys, baboons, leopard tortoise
and marsh terrapin.
New birds
included kori bustards, arrow marked babblers, grey and goliath herons, great
white egret, crowned lapwings, white faces ducks, red-faced mousebirds and
swainson's spurfowl.
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