Much better day. I was able to stay with the dogs most of the time today.
At dawn they were hunting around the base of Sosigi hill and after only one chase that was them done for the day as they rested up at a pan in the mopanie.
That allowed me a bunch of time to catch up with stuff in the office.
Back with the dogs at the pan in the afternoon and they were still resting. The Emerald-spotted Doves in the surrounding woodland called their mournful cries going on and on. “My mother is dead, my father is dead, all my relations are dead, and my heart goes koo-koo-koo-koo”. And trying to out compete them were the Cape-turtle Doves “work harder, work harder.”
The dogs made up for their lazy start this morning with an early start this afternoon they circled Sosigi hill and then headed north. The terrain was pretty easy going initially but then they hit those impenetrable thickets.
When I caught up with the pups they were milling around looking for the folks. And it turned out they weren’t even a hundred metres away feeding on a young impala they’d caught. When the pups eventually did hear a bone being crunched they screamed with delight while in full flight to get there first for the scraps, of which there weren’t many.
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