Also in the hide or at the dams we discovered only few animals and birds and for sure this was no comparison compared to the masses of animals who came to drink last year but for sure is the wet weather, full dams and waterholes plus dense vegetation far better for all the animals in the park.
Nevertheless we stopped at Gardenia hide as this hide turns more and more into one of our favourites the more often we visit same but as already expected it was extreme quiet there with only few birds but it was wonderful to spot the hide that full again.
We, however, stayed a bit longer to relax a bit from driving and after quite a while some rustling in the close by trees soon revealed a group of vervets which had great fun in chasing each other on the branches and on the ground.
One of the many youngsters of them was curiously eying us from behind some branches.
Same was simply too cute and on top same grabbed a leave from the branch, turned same around and started to feed on something which looked like a caterpillar and same obviously tasted very yummy.
Far away on the other side a green backed heron landed but same stayed nearly hidden between the branched and also the red billed firefinches were hanging around that hide but also stayed far too far away for a decent shot.
After a lovely break in which we nearly stayed alone in the hide we carried on the met Mrs. zorro
and we could not avoid to be checked out again by the terrapins whilst crossing one of the many causeways in that area.
It was a long time ago when we saw these colourful crickets in the park so same had to be photographed.
On our way back to camp we met again a group of impalas out of which the dominate male obviously had an oxpecker problem.
More and more of these hitchhikers landed on him and he started to get more and more annoyed by them.
For us it was quite fun watching him as his facial expressions were simply the best.
In one of the thick bushes we noticed a movement and after quite a while a burchells’s coucal appeared in the scene. This year we saw only very few of them but at least we were happy that we could capture that one.
to be continued.....