Camp in Etosha Park
We did indeed have a mooch around the camp, spotting Gabar Goshawk - so much smaller than a Pale Chanting...
Purple Roller - at first glance the drabbest of the Rollers, but on a close look, they have amazing plumage:
Red-billed Quelea:
And Southern White-Crowned Shrike:
The camp has its own watering hole. We stayed a while in the mid-day heat to watch an elephant drinking (positioned where the freshwater is pumped in to get the best stuff!):
Joined by Kudu:
On the way back we spotted some Violet Wood-Hoopoes in the trees:
What an amazing bill!
That evening we went back to watering hole. It remained quiet until after sunset when over a hundred Double-banded and Namaqua Sandgrouse landed to drink before heading back to their roosts. There may have been a third species but it was getting progressively harder to tell plumage variations. Under the spotlights we saw our first Nightjars and a lone Fork-tailed Drongo that was feeding by spotlight and was proclaiming its ingenuity to the world! Out of beer and hungry, we headed back into camp for dinner.
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