Wildcast

I really can’t believe we still haven’t seen any elephant. This morning we moved into the hills and north to Tsuvuka pan and found a few tracks of one or two elephant but no further sign of them.
Not having had any joy with that I decided we should spend some time at Bandama pan as there would at least be an elephant coming in to drink and lots of other plains game.

Well that proved just as bleak. The Quelea were coming and going but not in big numbers and a Hobby Falcon was in the area swooping down on them several times without success.
Eventually a herd of zebra came for a quick drink and left. They were followed by 2 male warthog, which came and wallowed briefly and took off.

Other water birds were the only other activity on the pan. Three-banded Plovers patrolling the shores. Common Sandpipers in the shallows and a pair of Egyptian Geese shouting their abuses at the Hobby each time he came in for an aerial attack on the Quelea.
The Sandpipers on seeing the Hobby coming would duck under water for safety, coming up 5 seconds later.
Late afternoon on the way past the airstrip the sun peaked out from the clouds for the most perfect time when I big herd of giraffe and impala were out there.

These were all giraffe bulls and of course they were all involved in wrestling with each other. Others showing more amorous tendencies. Boys will be boys!