Africa 2006 Botswana, Notes: There is a nice balance between the illusion of roughing it and decadence! The accommodations are great and the food is just wonderful. The schedule works out to four meals a day here, plus snacks (light breakfast, morning drive with coffee break, brunch, afternoon siesta, tea, afternoon drive and your sundowner drinks, and finally dinner)! What we saw:
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Top of page, heron Above and right, cape buffalo Below, a pair of ground horn bills and a lilac-breasted roller in flight. |
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Above left, hippo Above and left, a wart hog mother and her litter. Warthogs have such a short neck that they have to rest on their knees to eat. Below, a pair of glossy ibis. |
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| Above, African jacana appears to walk on water. Below left, blacksmith plover. Below right, an African fish eagle sits in a nest. The nests are large and reused each year. | |
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| Back at camp we got in some very good bird watching. Below left, lilac breasted roller in flight. Below right, ??? | |
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Above, bearded woodpecker Right, a crested barbet having a bad feather day! Below, a pair of little bee-eaters. These birds were catching insects all around the camp. |
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| All of these are various bee-eaters. They feed on all kinds of small insects and will appear to be flitting around randomly. But if you are watching them with binoculars you can see that every time they land they have a bug in their beaks. |
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Upper left, yellow-billed hornbill Above, left and below, Scott caught these incredible images of the lilac-breasted roller in flight. |
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