Last night we were determined to find some kind of predator, hopefully stumble upon our lions. Manyari seems to have ditched Sjambok, I found his tracks on a road near the air strip yesterday and she is no where to be found. The exciting thing is I saw Magwaza’s tracks with smaller tracks crossing the road from Nyari heading towards Banyini, this could mean that her cubs have survived so far!
Anyway, after a wide search for some excitement, the best we could find was a two meter African Rock Python on the hunt and two Pearl Spotted Owls. Just before we headed out today, we had a special visitor in the bush, Kim had just returned and noticed the birds going crazy. I hung around to see what the upheaval was about. A slender mongoose with his tail in the air was tearing through the bush, but the Mongoose wasn’t the culprit, he was having a go at a massive Mozambique Spitting Cobra! So that was our adrenaline rush for the day as we guided it away from the house.
We visited Khayeni Pan on the west border, there was a big herd of Blue Wildebeest with two Woodland Kingfishers putting on a great show diving in the water. Sosigi Dam is still looking good, the water level is up and we stumbled upon two dugga boy Buffalo’s wallowing in the water. They didn’t stick around, so we did a round about past Nyari Pan, there is mostly Impala around, but they are looking healthy and strong.
The clouds formed some interesting shapes at sunset and we ended the evening overlooking Malilangwe Dam with the Lions roaring in the background - another hard day in Africa.
The elephants are a beautiful metal/blue color. It reminds me of how integral and complementary they are to the surroundings…….thanks :o)
I wish you’d managed some footage of the cobra and the mongoose!
very beautiful puictures!