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How can I complain? Well actually I’m not. Life is just brilliant and the bush here at Malilangwe is some of the very best I’ve ever been in. So what more could I want?
…..some better tyres would help. Just blew another one today. That’s 3 in 3wks. Whereas on my old conventional road tyres (not these fancy ‘off-road’ tyres), I had 4 blow outs in 20yrs! ………Going back to my old tyres ☺
The dogs continue to hunt in the north which at times can be really good, but the past few days they’ve been keeping to the Grewia thickets which make travel and visibility really tough most of the time.
The dogs were hunting at dawn and had many impala to chase with only Jiggy being successful. On returning the pups were frantic trying to get him to regurgitate, but today there was no free lunch and the pups had to find the remains of his kill.
In the evening they were again in good impala country but the pups instead ended up chasing several buffalo that took off. And the faster they ran the faster the pups ran after them. Even Puzzles and Jiggy joined them.
I don’t know what happened in the end, as I wasn’t able to keep up, and then found the pack resting at this pan on the old airstrip.
For the last few days my cameras have hardly rolled, with really only just enough to do the 3mins of Wildcast every day. But I know if I keep at it something lucky WILL come along.
Roll on Luck!
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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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Thankfully the wild dogs came down from the hills at dawn, Puzzles leading the pack again. It wasn’t long until she was back on the main road heading south with her pack in tow.
2kms down the road she did a ‘U’-turn, back north up the main drag for a kilometre and then west. Now she was heading straight into impala-land.
Soon impala were ‘flying’ everywhere, most with a dog hot on their heels.
The kills came quickly. I think 3 of them, but I only found Jiggy and one pup feeding on the one kill. They left and I found others on another kill and from the sounds there was yet another to the south. All kills within 200m of each other and all after only a short chase of less than 500m.
The dogs were now all in great shape with rounded tummies. Again Puzzles took them north, all resting in a pan to cool off. It was already hot and the dogs had been on a long hunt. Of course I expected them to spend the day here, but 2mins later Puzzles had the pack on the run still heading north.
It was only half an hour later and several kilometres further that she eventually pulled up in the shade of mopanie trees to rest.
The pack hardly roused and soon before sunset the pups were up playing in a pan. And when the games ended, so did everything else and nobody went hunting tonight. For a change they were spending a night at home.
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