Saturday, May 10, 2014

3 Bots/Nam Senyati 10/5/14

Rose at the crack of dawn again. Call of Hyena, pearl spotted, spotted eagle owl, jackal and rumbling Ellie's accompanied our dreams last night. Giraffe at waterhole this morning, plus sable and impala.






Crazy to see domestic cows (is there anything other kind?) mingling with ellies.






Yellow billed Ox pecker taking advantage of water break and drinking as well.





Rest of the crew went to Kasane to get money and provisions. I stayed and went out with Louw and Lulu to investigate vulture activity. Sadly for us, they were about 50m into the Zimbabwe side so could not satisfy our curiosity. Lulu was telling me that the local farmer and owner of aforementioned cows has shot 14 lion in the past 6 months plus an ellie 2 weeks ago. He received a warning from the authorities. Botswana recently introduced a zero tolerance policy to poaching and game hunting.

Massive herd of giraffe wended their lazy way past the lodge but didn't stop for a drink.
Fish eagle finally moved into posing position.



Plenty ellie activity.






Had a pretty little visitor to our lapa. Quite tame as well.



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