Yellow-Billed hornbills are a common sight in the Zimbabwean lowveld. Just seeing one lets you know that you are in big game country.
They are bold predators and this one was happy to fly in and scratch around my vehicle as I sat by a pan. The bush is in its autumn dress,russets and reds everywhere, what a beautiful time of year.
This old bull giraffe, dark with age wasn’t so keen to hang around near me. Kim is away, taking Kathy and Barend to Johannesburg to finish off the Safari Sisters series. We will miss them.
By Darryl Nolan-Evans
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My saw a Lifer today!
I saw my first cheetah on Malilangwe at dawn, drinking at Banyini. Unfortunately this guy was a little nervous and didn’t even allow me time to get a photo.
Cheetah are very rare on Malilangwe but do drift through the reserve every now and then. They require huge home ranges and this guy had probably ventured in from Gonarezhou National Park to the south.
With a very pretty dawn and with the cheetah I was hoping to be in for a good day, well at least for the few hours that I was out there pretending to be filming.
It would be really unfair for me to say it was bleak out there, especially as I only spent about 3 hours looking for activity and the rest of the day doing my manual labour.
These zebra came in nervously to drink at Bandama at dawn. Nervous only really because I was parked on a side of the pan that no one parks on. But today I wanted to shoot from a different perspective. And of course the reflections provided a very different perspective.
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