The female warthog that visits our camp arrived yesterday without her youngster and has returned again today without. It seems that the unfortunate lighty was on somebody’s menu.
Tjololo had already moved a considerable distance when we found him. Instead of heading south along the river as we expected he was on the move back southeast. An adult male impala was soon in his clutches but he was surprised by the thugs. The impala still alive took off as Tjololo ran for cover and the hyaenas chased after it eventually catching it. There was nothing left for Tjololo and he eventually moved on.
Again he was stalking some male impala, but after a long wait in stalk mode they scented him and took off.
He was now moving back northeast into the area he was in last night. Why?
Here just before dawn he killed a duiker which he treed.
Apart from the obvious herbivore calving that accompanies the rains, I have enjoyed the insect boom at least as much. I tried for a long time to capture these delicate butterflies gently sipping nectar. Trying to follow fast moving insect through a long lens involves many blurred photos of grass and mud with not a butterfly in sight !
Further along the hills, I came across a pair of rare Black eagles (Aquila Verrauxii). The pair sat for a while and I got a nice series of shots of the eagle taking off, I only wish I could have got closer. Here are two pictures out of the series.
They are an amazing, huge black bird with a white V across their back.
Another interesting piece of news is three wild dog have been sighted in the center of Malilangwe and we are hoping they are here to stay, re-colonising the area after the last pack was decimated by rabies
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