At last the rains stayed away for the whole day.
Having been grounded for the last few days, the vultures were quick to take to the air and find the buffalo kill. But their moment of glory was short-lived when the lions chased them off. And so their waiting game began.
We left and picked up One-tusk down the road with her family. Her big calf almost tried one of her mother’s tricks on us but chickend out. Then One-tusk came over for her usual trick. First she tried to get her foot onto the bull-bar and then put her tusk onto the bonnet of the vehicle, which was my time to stop her denting it. She backed off quite happy and carried on feeding.
Late afternoon I took my daughters down to Malilangwe dam for a walk. The water level had risen substantially since Penny and I walked down there a few days ago. The conditions were perfect now for hundreds of White-faced duck to hang out in the recently flooded grasslands.
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