Africa Wild

in Mata Mata chalet 7 was allocated to us









as it was a long day we just had dinner and went to bed

30.09.2014

while I was waiting on the stoep for my SO to get ready, all of a sudden there was a lot of noise in the tree in front of the chalet . I looked up and saw a rosy-faced lovebird, another first



actually there were two and they behaved really nice and sat down in the fallen tree next to the chalet

there was a drongo as well



my So missed all of them and when he was finally ready we went on the morning drive. There was a traffic jam at 14th borehole. As we could not see anything we asked someone what they saw. They told us that there was a cheetah behind a bush. We waited for about 15 minutes and nothing happened. Frustrated we continued to 13th borehole. Here we saw a shy baby gemsbok

when we returned to 14th borehole, the cars had moved or left. We managed to get a place just as Lisette decided to get up.

On the way back to camp we saw a swallow-tailed bee-eater



We spent the afternoon in camp and were visited by some squirrels



a cape crow on the roof



and swallow-tailed bee-eater

then we did the short walk around camp

we found ashy tit



and Gusti’s family was having a meeting close to the staff quarters

a groundscraper thrush (they are not only around at Nossob)



and my „favourite“ bird, a familiar chat

Toko wrote:Ops, I missed the Lovebird series on the previous page

I did not know that they can be there, have seen them much further north only in Namibia - you are a lucky fish, Tina

Namibia is just on the other side

I have seen them never in Southern Namibia