Africa Wild

Part 4

22/23.3.2013
Nossob No 3 - the nightmare

22.3.2012
And re-belotte I crammed everything into the car. Failing to sleep Grootkolk, I will go to Union End in one day

I leave early, I go through the large loop and up to Nossob

Wildebeest arrive at the waterhole, in line with the first rays of sun


the big brother helps the little one to continue to walk

In loops, 14th and 13th, I find Green (Red-billed) Wood Hoopoe, and new festival Hawks, Kites, Tawny, Gabar Goshawk and, a couple of Lions ... lover

Green Wood-Hoopoe/Irisor moqueur

Tawny Eagle/Aigle ravisseur




a lot of African Grey Hornbill/Calao à bec noir

Forktail Drongo/Drongo brilliant

Gabar Goshawk/Autour gabar




mating... again

I stop Kamqua, as usual went around the car ... tires, fridge and presto ... the big loop.
Oops, there are huge consequences of the fire of last September

At the beginning of this road, a very large herd of Wildebeest is en route to Kamqua waterhole

At Moravet, which is no more a lake, I found 2 Black-headed Herons who don't allow Oryx to approach
I also saw birds, Wattled Starling, juv Goshaw Gabar, Kalahari Scrub-Robin. Shortly before the Gat Marie, again a couple of Lion, in love

Black-headed Heron/Héron mélanocéphale

parade

Mel I will meet you tommorrow -O

the second arrives

Wattled Starling/Etourneau caronculé

3 lions... one mating couple

Arrived at Nossob, one attributed to me the room No 3, ... without windows, but with a fan which circulates the 30 ° which is already in the house

Impossible to leave open at night (in the kitchen), there is no mosquito net and it's already filled with mosquitoes. It is also the only place where I found bugs And I will have to spend 2 nights

Fortunately there is the hide, and this evening a brown hyena makes an appearance, immediately followed by an incredible number of people, each one more noisy than the other

The next day I decided to leave very early, I'd like to go to Union End, put a word in the book. So "dodo" early. Needless to say the night was a nightmare, between the heat and the mosquitoes (0)

à suivre...