Thankfully the zebra foal was now dead and the jackal had made short work of the carcass.
Three of them were still feeding at dawn, but with stomachs bulging they had to admit defeat and left to lie up for the day.
A short while later a lone hyaena arrived, but the zebra herd that had moved into the area kept it away. Eventually the hyaena was bold enough and made off with the entire carcass. There was really only a meal left for the vultures but the hyaena with its steel crushing jaws will devour that whole carcass, skin, bones and all.
While we were filming the jackal a truck load of Nyala arrived at the airstrip. They had been transported all the way from Malawi and were now safely here after 3 days of travelling. We went to help with the release.
Those bulls were all fired up in their crates and if you so much as dropped a leaf in there they’d attack with their horns. But once released they strolled out of their crates as if this was home and were soon feeding. It was amazing, especially after such a long trip.
The quelea are now really back in force and the colony were now breeding at their peak. Most of the nests already had an egg. Most of them will lay 3 eggs and in just over 3 weeks the chick will fledge.
A herd of about 500 buffalo were in the area too with many small calves afoot.
Moving on to look for elephant, we found another colony of quelea nesting south of Chitindigova hill. They used this same area before in the Sickle-bush thickets.
We had now joy with the elephants but at dusk were lucky to find 4 members of Manyari’s pride resting up at Hwata pan. 3 boys and a cute young female. The boys of course looking over fed and scruffily dirty having been lying up in the mud.
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