Isaac wasted no time getting back to the giraffe at the landing strip. These little ones were so cute and he estimated that they were four months old. We drove from here out along the river. we drove along roads just recently exposed by the receding water. We occasionally had to drive over small ditches only four or five feet across. There were hippo highways when the water was higher and then pathways connecting pools as the water receded. The amount of birds was quite amazing. They were in the air, on the ground and in the water. We drove amongst zebra, cape buffalo and numerous birds. We stopped for a sundowner and wave after wave of birds in formation flew overhead. It was magnificent. We took off back to the lodge with the spotlight on. We got very lucky and saw a serval cat. It is a bit like a leopard but smaller, less than three feet long. Then we saw another African wild cat. Two of these in two nights is really cool. The moon is still pretty full and it came up all red and scary. We said it was the blood moon. Little did we know what this would portend...
Two little giraffe
Looking cute as can be
The different colors was unexpected
The smallest was very shy
Peek a boo!
Super fuzzy horns
Pink Backed Pelican
Great white pelican
Too many types of birds to list
These long legs are why these birds are called stilts
We had the option of going out for a one hour ride in these boats but we chose to do a four hour game drive instead
Storks and cranes were thick on the flats
The sausage tree has very sweet flowers and the baboons will knock the fruit off trying to get to the flowers
Formation flying
Tsessebe Antelope, a new one for us
Impala and red lechwe
Mole Rat Hills
Looking off in the distance is Delphine our safari companion. She is a French Travel Agent working in Switzerland. Boy did we have lots to talk about!
Saddle Billed Stork
Little White Egret
The black winged stilt
Silty Egret
Some cape buffalo
Malibu Stork with a big dewlap on its neck
This guy is almost 5 feet tall
The darker parts are newly laid down
A big nest for the Hammerkop. It has a top to it that other birds sometimes nest on
Southtern Zebras
These are open billed storks. There is an opening in the bill where the two parts don't meet. They specialize in eating one particular type of snail
Z-butts
Grey Lorrie also known as the Go-Away Bird
His call sounds like G'Away
One of only two woodpeckers that I saw and the only one I got a picture of, this was the cardinal woodpecker
This giant marabou stork looked very out of place in the top of a tree
As night was falling many groups of birds flew by in formation. glossy ibis and sacred ibis in large numbers
A cute baby zebra
That movie star light is shining on us
Yellow Billed Stork
White Storks flying in at sunset
Glossy Ibis flying off to roost
Wave after wave of them made me think of a WW2 movie
Time for, you guessed it
A sundowner drink mixed up in the bush
G N T
We saw a serval cat. He was fast and ran away after just one picture
The African Wild Cat hung around a bit longer
It has been 128 days since we began our Migration
